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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (175365)	8/28/2001 2:59:21 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

GHW did not head to Washington until GW was already at Yale. Dubya grew up in Texas: America's 41st President, George Bush, was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, into a wealthy family as George Herbert Walker Bush. After graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover, MA in 1942 he served as the youngest U.S. naval carrier pilot in the Pacific till 1945, winning the 'Distinguished Flying Cross', and three Air Medals. On January 6, 1945 George married Barbara Pierce, of Rye, New York. Bush studied economics at Yale University. After graduating he moved to Texas where he started working in the oil-drilling business. He co-founded the Bush-Overbey Company, Zapata Petroleum Corporation and Zapata Off-Shore, of which he also became president in 1954. In 1966 he sold his interests to concentrate on politics. He became active in the Republican Party. After running unsuccesfully as a Republican candidate for the Senate in 1964, he entered the House of Representatives in 1967. This was the beginning of an extensive political career. Bush served as ambassador to the United Nations from 1971-1972, was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1972-1973, chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking from 1974-1976, and director of the C.I.A. from 1976-1977. In 1980 Bush campaigned for the Republican nomination for the U.S. presidency but withdrew later to support Reagan, who chose Bush as his running mate. Bush became vice-president during Reagan's two terms in the White House, from 1981-1989. In 1988 Bush ran for the presidency again and this time succesfully. odur.let.rug.nl Bush, George Walker (1946-), 43d president of the United States. Bush, the son of former president George Bush, was born in New Haven, Conn., on July 6, 1946, and grew up in Midland, Tex. He attended the exclusive Phillips Academy--Andover (Mass.), and received degrees from Yale (B.A., 1968) and Harvard (M.B.A., 1975) universities. During the Vietnam War era Bush served (1968-1973) as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard. He married Laura Welsh, a librarian, in 1977. gi.grolier.com