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In 1948 George Moved to Midland, Texas, where his family made a fortune in the oil business. George spent his childhood in Midland, attending school there until the he was in seventh grade -
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George's family moved to Houston in 1961, and George was sent to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. -
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In Phillips Academy George was an all-around athlete, playing baseball, basketball, and football. He was a fair student and had a reputation for being an occasional troublemaker. -
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in 1964 George's family tried to help him enter into Yale University. -
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George W. Bush was a popular student at Yale, becoming president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and also playing rugby. For Bush, grades took a back seat to Yale’s social life. Despite his privileged background, he was comfortable with all kinds of people and had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. -
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Two weeks before graduation, at the end of his draft deferment, George W. Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard. It was 1968 and the Vietnam War was at its height. Though the Guard unit had a long waiting list, Bush was accepted through the unsolicited help of a family friend. Commissioned as a second lieutenant, he earned his fighter pilot certification in June of 1970. -
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Bush was honorably discharged from the Air Force Reserve on November 21, 1974. -
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Bush declared his candidacy for the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election at the same time that his brother Jeb sought the governorship of Florida. His campaign focused on four themes: welfare reform, tort reform, crime reduction, and education improvement.[54] Bush's campaign advisers were Karen Hughes, Joe Allbaugh, and Karl Rove.[65 -
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In 1999, George W. Bush began his quest for the presidency, and after a contentious series of primary elections, he won the Republican presidential nomination. The 2000 presidential election pitting George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore was close and controversial. As Election Day unfolded, there was no clear winner. -
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The late-night news declared one candidate the winner, then the other the winner. By early the next morning, Bush had 246 electoral votes and Gore had 255, with 270 needed to win. Florida’s 25 electoral votes were held in the balance where several counties reported problems with balloting. After more than a month of recounts and legal maneuvering, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the election, giving George Bush the victory. -
George W. Bush crisis
During George's presidency, a horrible disaster had struck the two world trade centers a plane had been hijacked and had been targeted to the right tower and when it hit the tower it started a massive fire. The second plane had hit the left tower and made burst into flames and other reports say that a third had hit the Pentagon and a fourth plane was targeting the Whitehouse and instead and crashed landed in a cornfield. Then the two towers had collapsed to the ground called groud zero