George H. W. Bush and Related Topics

George W. Bush

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American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

George W. Bush with his parents, Barbara and George H. W. Bush, c. undefined 1947

Governor Bush (right) with father, former president George H. W. Bush, and wife, Laura, 1997

George W. Bush re-election campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Deficit and debt increases from 2001 to 2009. Gross debt has increased over $500billion each year since the 2003 fiscal year.

President Bush signing the No Child Left Behind Act into law, January 8, 2002

President Bush delivering a statement on energy, urging Congress to end offshore oil drill ban, June 18, 2008

President Bush discussing border security with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff near El Paso, November 2005

President Bush with hurricane victims in Biloxi, September 2, 2005

President Bush announcing his nomination of Alberto Gonzales as the next U.S. Attorney General, November 10, 2004

Countries visited by President George W. Bush during his time in office

President Bush with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Shanghai, October 21, 2001. Russia had cooperated with the U.S. in the war on terror.

President Bush, beside firefighter Bob Beckwith, addressing rescue workers at the World Trade Center site

Countries with major military operations throughout the war on terror launched by Bush, including those launched after his presidency

President Bush and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan in Kabul, March 1, 2006

President Bush, with Naval Flight Officer Lieutenant Ryan Philips, after landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln prior to his Mission Accomplished speech, May 1, 2003

Gallup/USA Today Bush public opinion polling from February 2001 to January 2009

Protest against the Iraq War in New London, Connecticut on May 23, 2007

Countries with a U.S. military presence in 2007

Charlie Strong (left), Texas Longhorns head football coach, George W. Bush and Reverend Jesse Jackson hold up a Texas Longhorns football jersey at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2014

Bush eulogizing his father at the National Cathedral, December 5, 2018

George W. Bush and Laura at the inauguration of Joe Biden

George W. Bush Presidential Center, on the campus of Southern Methodist University

Bush on January 20, 2001 in Washington D.C., the day of his first inauguration as President of the United States.

Former President George W. Bush and his wife being escorted to a waiting helicopter by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on January 20, 2009.

A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of former president George H. W. Bush, he previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.

Bill Clinton

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American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Clinton in Hot Springs High School's 1963 yearbook

Photo of Clinton at age 17 shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy at the White House in 1963

Clinton ran for president of the Student Council while attending the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Results of the 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election. Clinton won the counties in blue.

Newly elected Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton meets with President Jimmy Carter, 1978

Governor and Mrs. Clinton attend the Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors in the White House with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1987.

The Clintons in a White House Christmas portrait

1992 electoral vote results. Clinton won 370–168.

1996 electoral vote results. Clinton won 379–159.

Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on the South Lawn, August 10, 1993

Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993

Clinton's coat of arms, granted by the Chief Herald of Ireland in 1995

Future president Donald Trump and Clinton shaking hands at Trump Tower, June 2000

Col. Paul Fletcher, USAF and Clinton speak before boarding Air Force One, November 4, 1999

Clinton shaking hands with Gerry Adams outside a business in East Belfast, November 30, 1995

Clinton plays the saxophone presented to him by Russian president Boris Yeltsin at a private dinner in Russia, January 13, 1994

Clinton during a briefing on Kosovo, March 31, 1999.

Clinton and Chinese president Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997

Ruth Bader Ginsburg accepting her nomination to the Supreme Court from President Clinton, 1993

Clinton's approval ratings throughout his presidential career (Roper Center)

Clinton addressing the Parliament of Great Britain on November 29, 1995

Clinton and Monica Lewinsky on February 28, 1997

Clinton greets a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, September 5, 2005. In the background, second from the right, is then-Senator Barack Obama.

Former president George H. W. Bush and Clinton in the White House Library, January 2005

Clinton speaking at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

The state funeral of George H. W. Bush in December 2018

Clinton with then-President Barack Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett in July 2010

Clinton, his wife Hillary, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York City on September 29, 2014

Clinton campaigning at an election rally for his wife Hillary who was running for President of the United States, 2016

Clinton speaking at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Secretary of Defense Cohen presents President Clinton the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Bill Clinton statue in Ballybunion, erected to commemorate his 1998 golfing visit

Bill Clinton statue in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo

Former President Bill Clinton is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then president Barack Obama.

Clinton during the signing of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, with Yitzhak Rabin (left) and King Hussein of Jordan (right)

Clinton was elected president in the 1992 presidential election, defeating incumbent Republican president George H. W. Bush and independent businessman Ross Perot.

Ronald Reagan

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American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

Ronald Reagan's boyhood home in Dixon, Illinois

Capt. Ronald Reagan at Fort Roach, 1943 or 1944.

Guest stars for the premiere of The Dick Powell Show, 1961. Reagan can be seen wearing a ten-gallon hat on the far left.

Reagan testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, October 1947

Reagan and his first wife Jane Wyman, 1942

Wedding of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, 1952. Matron of honor Brenda Marshall (left) and best man William Holden (right) were the sole guests.

Nancy and Ronald Reagan aboard a boat in California, 1964

The Reagans meet with President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, July 1970

Reagan and President Ford shake hands on the podium after Reagan narrowly lost the nomination at the 1976 Republican National Convention

Ronald Reagan, moderator Jon Breen, and Bush participate in the Nashua, New Hampshire presidential debate, 1980

President and Mrs. Reagan at the 1981 inauguration parade

Supreme Court justice-nominee Sandra Day O'Connor talks with Reagan outside the White House, July 15, 1981.

Reagan outlines his plan for Tax Reduction Legislation in a televised address from the Oval Office, July 1981

Reagan addresses Congress on the Program for Economic Recovery, April 28, 1981 (a few weeks after surviving the assassination attempt)

As the first U.S. president invited to speak before the British Parliament (June 8, 1982), Reagan predicted Marxism–Leninism would end up on the "ash heap of history".

Meeting with leaders of the Afghan Mujahideen in the Oval Office, 1983

Reagan with actress Sigourney Weaver and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia supplied money and arms to the anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan.

Reagan (far left) and First Lady Nancy Reagan pay their respects to the 17 American victims of the April 18 attack on the U.S. embassy by Hezbollah in Beirut, 1983

1984 presidential electoral votes by state. Reagan (red) won every state except Mondale's home state of Minnesota; Mondale also carried the District of Columbia.

Reagan is sworn in for a second term as president by Chief Justice Burger in the Capitol rotunda

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (here with Reagan in 1986) granted the U.S. use of British airbases to launch the Libya attack.

Reagan (center) receives the Tower Commission Report regarding the Iran-Contra affair in the Cabinet Room with John Tower (left) and Edmund Muskie (right)

Challenging Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987

Gorbachev and Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House, December 1987

The Reagans with a model of USS Ronald Reagan, May 1996

Reagan lying in state in the Capitol rotunda

A bronze statue of Reagan standing in the National Statuary Hall Collection

President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev, 1985

Approval ratings for President Reagan (Gallup)

Former President Reagan returns to the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush, 1993

{{circa}} 1916–17. Pictured from left: Father Jack, older brother Neil, Reagan (with "Dutchboy" haircut), and mother Nelle

1920s. As a teenager, in Dixon, Illinois

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After receiving the Republican nomination, Reagan selected one of his opponents from the primaries, George H. W. Bush, to be his running mate.

Republican Party (United States)

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One of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

Political Spectrum Libertarian Left Centrist Right Authoritarian

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

The second half of the 20th century saw the election or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Gerald Ford

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American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, and was the only president never to have been elected to the office of president or vice president.

The Gunnery officers of USS Monterey (CVL-26), 1943. Ford is second from the right, in the front row.

A billboard for Ford's 1948 congressional campaign from Michigan's 5th district

The Warren Commission (Ford 4th from left) presents its report to President Johnson (1964)

Congressman Gerald Ford, MSFC director Wernher von Braun, Congressman George H. Mahon, and NASA Administrator James E. Webb visit the Marshall Space Flight Center for a briefing on the Saturn program, 1964.

Gerald and Betty Ford with the President and First Lady Pat Nixon after President Nixon nominated Ford to be vice president, October 13, 1973.

Gerald Ford is sworn in as president by Chief Justice Warren Burger in the White House East Room, while Betty Ford looks on.

President Ford appears at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in reference to his pardon of Richard Nixon

Ford and his golden retriever, Liberty, in the Oval Office, 1974

Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ford in the Oval Office, 1975

Ford meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to sign a joint communiqué on the SALT treaty during the Vladivostok Summit, November 1974

Countries visited by Ford during his presidency

Ford and his daughter Susan watch as Henry Kissinger (right) shakes hands with Mao Zedong, December 2, 1975

Indonesian President Suharto with Ford and Kissinger in Jakarta on December 6, 1975, one day before the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.

Reaction immediately after the second assassination attempt

John Paul Stevens, Ford's only Supreme Court appointment.

Governor Ronald Reagan congratulates President Ford after the president successfully wins the 1976 Republican nomination, while Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, and Nelson Rockefeller look on.

Jimmy Carter and Ford in a presidential debate, September 23, 1976.

On July 16, 1980 (day 3 of the 1980 Republican National Convention) Gerald Ford consults with Bob Dole, Howard Baker and Bill Brock before making a decision to ultimately decline the offer to serve as Ronald Reagan's running mate

Ford joins President Bill Clinton and former presidents George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter on stage at the dedication of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University, November 6, 1997

Ford at his 90th birthday with Laura Bush, President George W. Bush, and Betty Ford in the White House State Dining Room in 2003

Ford lying in state in the Capitol rotunda

The Fords on their wedding day, October 15, 1948

President George W. Bush with Ford and his wife Betty on April 23, 2006

Rockefeller's top competitor had been George H. W. Bush.

1988 United States presidential election

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The 51st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988.

The incumbent in 1988, Ronald Reagan. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1989.

Former Representative Ron Paul ran on the Libertarian ticket. He returned to the House of Representatives in 1997 as a Republican.

Michael Dukakis at a campaign rally at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion on the eve of the 1988 election

Chief Justice William Rehnquist administering the oath of office to President George H. W. Bush on January 20, 1989, at the United States Capitol

Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

The Republican nominee, incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush, defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts.

Vice President of the United States

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Second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.

John Adams, the first vice president of the United States

Though prominent as a Missouri Senator, Harry Truman had been vice president only three months when he became president; he was never informed of Franklin Roosevelt's war or postwar policies while vice president.

1888 illustration of John Tyler receiving the news of President William Henry Harrison's death from Chief Clerk of the State Department Fletcher Webster

Then-Vice President Joe Biden meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, 2010

Geraldine Ferraro speaks at the 1984 Democratic National Convention following her selection as the party's vice presidential nominee

Map of the United States showing the number of electoral votes allocated following the 2010 census to each state and the District of Columbia for the 2012, 2016 and 2020 presidential elections; it also notes that Maine and Nebraska distribute electors by way of the Congressional District Method. 270 electoral votes are required for a majority out of 538 votes possible.

Four vice presidents: (from left) outgoing president Lyndon B. Johnson (the 37th vice president), incoming president Richard Nixon (36th), (Everett Dirksen administering oath), incoming vice president Spiro Agnew (39th), and outgoing vice president Hubert Humphrey (38th), January 20, 1969

(Left to right) President Richard Nixon, First Lady Pat Nixon, Betty Ford and Congressman Gerald Ford after President Nixon nominated Congressman Ford to be vice president, October 13, 1973

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In this capacity, four vice presidents have been able to announce their own election to the presidency: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H. W. Bush.

Barbara Pierce Bush (June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) was First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 as the wife of President George H. W. Bush, and the founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.