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    The Presidency of George W. Bush I. Introduction Former President George H.W. Bush once said that his son, George W. Bush, “faced the greatest challenge of any President since Abraham Lincoln.” The challenge that this statement refers to is the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, known worldwide as 9/11. George W. Bush’s responses to the attack included a global “War on Terrorism,” the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and

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    George W. Bush’s Presidency To start off there are many different ways this topic came to be, the first one being I thought about the topics that interest me which includes categories such as politics, current events, religion, and war. Then the worst thing that could ever happen to a student happened, my thinking process came to a crashing halt but quite honestly helped me but also did not. That then encouraged me to think about a topic that included those categories which brought to the conclusion

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    and The War on Terror Were Crucial to President Bush’s Legacy George W. Bush’s presidency was arguably one of the most difficult terms in the white house. A smart, cunning, and charming man was transformed into what many see as a “wartime” president. Following the events of the airborne attacks of the world trade center on 9/11 many say President Bush “faced the greatest challenge of any president since Abraham Lincoln”. George W. Bush’s presidency could be viewed many different ways. Perhaps

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    Born in July 6, 1946, George W. Bush, America’s 43rd president, served in the White House office from 2001 to 2009. Before coming into the White House, he was the oldest son of former 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush, who was also a two-term Republican governor of the state of Texas. George W. Bush was a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business majoring in business administration. George W. Bush worked in the Texas oil industry and he was also an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball

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    The central idea of the 43th president, George W. Bush Speech for the incident of dictator of Iraq taking over Kuwait was that we are going to war with allies and soldiers who believe we have to fight with the cruel dictator of Iraq because when we offered peace they only wanted war and now we have to save the people of Kuwait. George immediately starts to play with our motions at the beginning about the dictator of Iraq taking over the weak Kuwait, “when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and

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    Barack Obama and George W. Bush, perhaps two of the most polarizing presidents in United States history. Their times as presidents epitomize the pendulum of political parties in our country, swinging back back between conservatives and liberals.Their legacies as presidents have helped define the political culture of the 21st centuries, and shaped the way people view the government. Bush and Obama are often considered very dichotomous in nature, so I would like to examine just how much their policies

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    During the presidency of George W. Bush, The lives of 3,000 innocent people were taken by an Islamic extremist group, al-Qaeda. The terrorists hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Another plane hit the Pentagon which was outside Washington D. C, and the last plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. The next seven years following this brutal attack

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    George W. Bush; are his lies blowing up in his face? On September 11, 2001, the United States of America faced its biggest attack in history, two commercial airlines flew into the World Trade Center in New York City, and another plane flew into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. But during these attacks, our Command-in-Chief George W. Bush was not protecting himself from harm, he was in Sarasota, Florida reading about goats. The people of America question is Bush and his staff should be held accountable

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    submerge.”¹The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the flight against the White House on September 11, 2001, made George W. Bush into a wartime president. bush's dad the 41st president stated “he had faced the greatest challenge of any president since Abraham lincoln” GW Bush's life was quite interesting before his presidency. Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut 1946.The family moved to Midland, Texas, where Bush's dad entered

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    the election of 2000 where George W. Bush won the electoral college while Al Gore won the popular vote talk of doing away with the electoral college all together has been a hot topic. The presidential election of 2000 came down to the outcome in Florida. First, the television networks said Al Gore, the vice president at the time, had carried the state. Then however, the state’s election was considered too close to call. Then, the television networks declared George W. Bush, Governor of Texas and son

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