George W. Bush
George W. Bush Trivia
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George hosted the the Warrior Open golf tournament in October 2011. The proceeds went to help wounded US soldiers.
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George appointed two justices to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.
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George was Time Magazine's Man of the Year two times; 2000 and 2004
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George W. Bush met and married his wife, Laura, within a three-month time span.
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At Yale, his cumulative undergraduate GPA was 2.35.
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In 2005, President Bush won the Razzie Award in the category of Worst Actor for his role in the 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11.
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President Bush was voted one of the "25 Most Intriguing People of 2001", by People magazine.
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President Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.
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Though he was born in Connecticut, President Bush's family moved to Texas when he was only two, and he considers himself a Texan.
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President Bush's first sibling, Robin, died of leukemia when she was only three and George was seven.
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In August 2005, with his nomination of the controversial John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations filibustered by the Senate, President Bush took the rarely-used expedient of installing him via a recess appointment. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid criticized this action as an abuse of Presidential power.
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During his 2000 Presidential campaign, President Bush actually received slightly fewer popular votes then his opponent, then-Vice President Al Gore, but he won the most electoral college votes, votes assigned to a candidate based on how many states they won, to win the Presidency. This was the first time this strange statistical aberration had occurred since the 19th century. He won both vote counts on his 2004 re-election campaign.
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President Bush claims his extreme knowledge of baseball trivia is one of his hidden talents.
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On a desert island, President Bush's necessities would be running shoes, a Bible, a fishing rod, and books.
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President Bush's favorite movies include Friday Night Lights about a Texas high school football team and Saving Private Ryan, the World War II epic from Steven Spielberg.
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President Bush banned jeans from the oval office, but he often wears his cowboy boots with his suits when meeting foreign dignitaries.
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One of President Bush's pet peeves is lateness.
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George Bush's iPod contains music from such singers as Van Morrison ("Moondance", "Domino") and Linda Gail Lewis, the younger sister of Jerry Lee Lewis.
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President Bush drives around in a Ford F250 pickup truck when at home on his Texas ranch.
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President Bush once almost choked on a pretzel.
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President Bush was the managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team.
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President Bush was a pitcher for the Yale University baseball team.
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President Bush has three brothers Jeb, Neil, and Marvin. He also has a sister, Dorothy.
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President Bush has two dogs, Barney and Miss Beazley, and a cat, Willie.
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President Bush has withdrawn the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to go forward with plans for a missile defense system.
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President Bush opted not to include the US in the Kyoto treaty, claiming it would be harmful to economic growth in the US, saying "My approach recognizes that economic growth is the solution, not the problem."
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In the 2004 election, a record voter turnout gave President Bush more popular votes than any other presidential candidate in U.S. History.
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President Bush considers himself a "Compassionate Conservative."
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President Bush was the first Texas governor to be elected to two consecutive four year terms.
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In 1978, George W. Bush ran for the Congress and lost; Ronald Reagan endorsed his opponent in the Republican primary.
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President Bush is the first U.S. president to have an MBA (Masters of Business Administration).He received the degree while at Harvard Business School.
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President Bush attended Yale University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1968.
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President Bush went on a bike ride with Lance Armstrong during his 2005 summer vacation.
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George W. Bush is the second President who was a son of the President; John Q. Adams was the first.
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President Bush is a member of Yale University's "Skull and Bones" Society.
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President Bush is 5' 11½" or 1.82 m high.
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Some of President Bush's nicknames are Dubya, Shrub, W, Junior, and Bushie (the same nickname he has given his wife).
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President Bush is fluent in Spanish.
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George W. Bush has been arrested three times. Once for driving under the influence of alcohol, once for stealing a large Christmas wreath from a hotel, and once for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after the Princeton-Yale game.
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President Bush scored a 1206 on the SAT. (566 verbal, 640 math)
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Quotes
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George: (on the tropps) I was a little concerned that our veterans don't think that I still respect them and care for them a lot. There's nothing as courageous in my judgment as someone who had a leg blown off in combat overcoming the difficulties.
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George: (on the death of Osama bin Laden) I didn't...feel any great sense of happiness. Or jubilation. I felt a sense of closure. And I felt a sense of gratitude that justice had been done.
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George W. Bush: (on the support of his wife during his Presidency) Laura provides great comfort. She reminds me of realities, like "Hey, buddy, you volunteered to do this job!" Oftentimes, Presidents fall prey to self-pity. There's nothing more pathetic than self-pity. Laura has been very good about bolstering my spirits.
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George W. Bush: (on Barack Obama succeeding him as the President in 2008) I wanted John McCain to win, but once the verdict was in, I was pleased about this. A lot of people in America did not think they'd ever see an African-American President, and they were elated to see Barack Obama elected. I think that's good for the country, that people now have renewed faith in the system.
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George W. Bush: Look, I've been popular and not so popular. But the thing that matters most in life is not one's popularity but their principles. I am not going to sacrifice my principles on the altar of popularity. If you chase popularity, you'll be a lousy President. If you make decisions based on sound principles, then you've done your job.
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President Bush: If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
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President Bush: Our priorities is our faith.
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President Bush: Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
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President Bush: Every one of us wishes that this war were over and won. Yet it would not be like us to leave our promises unkept, our friends abandoned, and our own security at risk.
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President Bush: The world has changed after September 11.
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President Bush: I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
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President Bush: America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
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President Bush: As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
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President Bush: America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
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President Bush: I speak plainly sometimes, but you've got to be mindful of the consequences of the words. So put that down. I don't know if you'd call that a confession, a regret, something.
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President Bush: Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.
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President Bush: Give me a chance to be your president and America will be safer and stronger and better.
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President Bush: I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?
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President Bush: (on his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court) I think it's important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn't been on the bench and, therefore, there's not a lot of opinions for people to look at.
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President Bush: Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
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President Bush: Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a, you're a, you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.
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President Bush: I know what I believe, I believe what I believe, and I believe what I believe is right.
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President Bush: (speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live TV camera was running) It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.
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President Bush: I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
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President Bush: More and more of our imports come from overseas.
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President Bush: Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it.
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President Bush: I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
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President Bush: This is one of these disasters that will test our soul and test our spirit, but we're going to show the world once again that not only can we survive but we will be stronger and better for it. This is just the beginning of a huge effort.
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