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Bush, George W.
George W. Bush (1946–) served two terms as the forty-third president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Abroad, the Bush administration was absorbed in the war on terrorism. At home, Bush pushed through education reforms and faced many tough challenges such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, the natural disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, and a faltering economy coupled by a continually declining approval rating during the last years of his presidency. In the West and Southwest, the main areas of political pressures were connected to the environment, the construction of a border wall, and immigration.
George W. Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut. His father, George H. W. Bush, the forty-first president ...
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