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[h3]The son of oil magnate President George Bush, he attended Yale, and Harvard Business School, then returned to Texas, where he established his own oil business.[/h3]

In 1977, Bush ran for US Congress on a Republican ticket, but he lost to his Democratic opponent.

In 1985, Bush's company was acquired by a Dallas firm and he became a paid adviser in his father's presidential campaign team in 1988. He then assembled investors to buy the Texas Rangers Baseball team for $86 million. Bush invested only $606,302 but was named managing partner.

In 1993, after his father's unsuccessful bid for re-election, he announced plans to run for the Texas governorship. He narrowly defeated Ann Richards.

[quote]"After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers."
- George W. Bush, 2004 State of the Union Address[/quote]

Re-elected in 1998, he announced plans to run for president. At this point the Rangers partners decided to sell the team for $250 million, earning Bush $14.9 million, which helped swell his campaign fund.

Bush adhered to the traditional conservative line, favouring tax cuts, a strong military, and opposing gun control and abortion. His running mate, Dick Cheney, was Secretary of Defence during his father's administration and commanded the Pentagon during the first Gulf War.

The race was one of the closest in the country's history. A recount in Florida, the crucial State, showed that Bush and his Democrat rival, Al Gore, were only a few hundred votes apart. The case ended in the US Supreme Court, where issues of voter exclusion were raised. Bush eventually won but he lost the popular vote by half a million to become the 43rd President of the United States of America. It was the first time in history that the Supreme Court and not the electorate, had decided a presidential election.

The main features of Bush’s presidency have been to date; a $1.6 trillion tax cut primarily favouring the wealthy, refusal to agree to global environmental legislation or the International Criminal Court, the revival of the 'Son of Star Wars' program, increased military and security spending, corporate scandals, and the 'War on Terrorism' after the 11th September 2001 attacks on the US.
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In October 2001, the US and Britain began air strikes against Afghanistan, after the defeat of the Taliban government (but not the capture of Osama Bin Laden). Two years later, a US-led coalition invaded Iraq. The Bush administration asserted that Iraq was in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions and that the war was necessary for the protection of the United States.

The subsequent overthrow of [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/815:0/Saddam_Hussein.htm]Saddam Hussein[/urlnew] did little to harm Bush's popular support, and he secured a second term as President in a landslide election victory over John Kerry in November 2004.

However the escalation of sectarian conflict in Iraq, together with accusations that the White House manipulated or exaggerated the threat and evidence of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction capabilities, started to erode his popular support at home.

Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, Bush gained an approval rating of almost 90%. Since then, his approval ratings and approval of handling of domestic and foreign policy issues have steadily dropped. In addition to the criticism he's faced for the worsening situation in Iraq, Bush has also been vilified for his response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans, and for the treatment of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp.

President Bush is married to Laura Welch Bush, a former teacher and librarian, and they have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna.
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- He is the only President in history to have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna Bush, born 25 November 1981.

- Bush played baseball and was a cheerleader at college; he now prefers to play golf, whilst maintaining his collection of over 250 autographed baseballs.

- Bush has been arrested twice in his life, once for stealing a large Christmas wreath from a hotel, and for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after a university football game between Princeton and Yale.

- He is the first US President whose actions have prompted the release of a major motion picture ("Fahrenheit 9/11"), and consequently, the first President to win a Razzie award for “Worst Actor”.

- His favourite films of all time are “Field of Dreams” and “Saving Private Ryan”.
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