Since then, President Bush has taken unprecedented steps to protect our homeland and create a world free from terror. He is grateful for the service and sacrifice of our brave men and women in uniform and their families. The President is confident that by helping build free and prosperous societies, our Nation and our friends and allies will succeed in making America more secure and the world more peaceful. President Bush is married to Laura Welch Bush, a former teacher and librarian, and they have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna.
This is historical material, "frozen in time. Podcasts RSS Feeds. It also sought to provide a more competitive market for Medicare services. Beginning in , Bush began pursuing the partial privatization of the Social Security system, a controversial and ultimately unsuccessful initiative.
Although he inherited the beginnings of an economic slowdown, by the stock market topped 14,, more than 6, points higher than it had been five years earlier, and unemployment fell to 4. Government expenditures kept growing, however, as tax revenue declined, moving the government from a balanced budget to huge budget deficits.
In the fall of , and in the middle of the presidential campaign to replace President Bush, the economy imploded as the bubble of housing prices collapsed and financial institutions began to fail. The most transformative event of the Bush presidency occurred on September 11, Islamic terrorists from a group called al Qaeda succeeded in a coordinated attack using airliners as missiles, crashing into the Pentagon, collapsing the Twin Towers in New York City, downing a plane in Pennsylvania, and killing nearly 3, people.
He also went from a President some considered illegitimately elected and unpopular to becoming, for a time, the most popular President in American history. After the attacks, Bush spoke for an angry and mourning nation, and he became a rallying point for the American people.
After the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated. On October 7, , coordinated American military attacks began in Afghanistan against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime, which had supported al Qaeda.
The Taliban was quickly driven from power, and members of al Qaeda fled into the mountains or across the borders to find refuge.
What seemed like a quick and easy war against a Third World nation and terrorist group, however, would become the longest war in American history. The U.
Once the Taliban was in retreat, Bush and his advisers returned to their long-standing concerns about the dangers of Iraq and its leader Saddam Hussein. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use them against our friends, against our allies, and against us.
On March 19, , U. A ground invasion followed soon after. Although the regime collapsed quickly and the United States won decisive victories on the battlefield, Iraq soon descended into sectarian violence with U. The war there became deeply unpopular with the American public as American casualties mounted, and there seemed to be no good solution on the horizon. The September 11, , attacks changed the entire focus of the Bush administration. The long, hard wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cost thousands of U.
He ended his time in office with low job approval, and with Republicans losing control of Congress in the elections and the White House in the election. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. In , Bush decided to run for president of the United States, an office his father held from to He ran against the sitting vice president, Al Gore.
After the first tally, Bush led by a small margin in the Sunshine State. The presidency would now be decided by recounting some of the ballots in Florida. For 36 days, the world waited to see who would become the next president.
Finally the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States, decided by a vote that Bush was not receiving equal protection and due process or fair treatment under the Constitution , and they stopped the recounts.
Bush had won Florida. In many countries, the candidate with the most votes wins. But citizens of the United States participate in a more complex, two-step process. After individual citizens across the country vote, a group called the electoral college chooses the president.
Based on population, each state has a certain number of delegates, or voters, in the electoral college who vote for the president according to how people in their state voted.
Winning Florida gave Bush enough electoral college votes to win the presidency, even though Gore received some , more votes than Bush, winning the popular vote.
Hayes, and Benjamin Harrison before him did the same. Unlike these previous presidents, Bush was reelected four years later. Not since John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams the second and sixth presidents had a father and his son each become president of the United States.
Department of Defense just outside Washington, D. Nearly 3, people died in the attacks. But the United States had entered what would become a year war on terror. Bush also sent troops to Iraq in because of rumors that the country was hiding dangerous weapons.
People supported the invasion at first, but public opinion split after no weapons were found. The organization is responsible for border security, immigrations and customs, and disaster relief and prevention. But they also keep a close watch over suspected terrorist groups and send warnings if they think the country and its people are in danger.
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