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President George Bush

Presidential Candidate


  • POLITICAL
    GOP nominee for Congress, 1978 (47%). Senior Advisor, George Bush for President Campaign, 1988. Governor of Texas, 1995-December 2000 (Elected 1994, re-elected 1998). President of the United States, 2001-present (Elected 2000 - 47.9% - 271 Electoral Votes).
  • PROFESSIONAL
    Managing General Partner, Texas Rangers pro baseball team, 1989-94. Founder & CEO, Bush Exploration Oil & Gas Company, 1975-86. Pilot, Texas Air National Guard, 1968-73.
  • EDUCATION
    B.A., Yale University, 1968. M.B.A., Harvard Business School, 1975.
  • PERSONAL
    Born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. Married to Laura Welch Bush. Two daughters. Methodist. Grandson of the late US Senator Prescott Bush (R-CT). Son of former President George H.W. Bush (R-TX). Brother of Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL).
  • ANNOUNCED CANDIDATE
    President Bush's initial election -- because of the controversy related to the Florida recount and the fact that Al Gore won more total votes nationwide than did Bush (but still lost due to the Electoral College process) -- was a tremendously polarizing political event. A sluggish economy during much of his first term would have also weakened most Presidents (as it did to his father in 1991-92). However, the President's strong leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the quick, decisive military win in Afghanistan toppling the Taliban warlords -- coupled with his generally affable demeanor -- sent Bush's poll numbers sky high.

    The ongoing economic woes caused Bush's numbers to drop n 2002-03 -- but his numbers remained fairly strong and the GOP did well in the 2002 mid-term elections. The rapid military victory in Iraq against the Hussein's armed forces in Spring 2003 pushed Bush's numbers back into the high approval range. Yet, the failure to find the weapons of mass destruction (the given justification for the preemptive attack) and the continuing series of guerrilla attacks against American soldiers in Iraq again caused Bush's numbers to soften somewhat.

    Also, the failure to actually capture and/or kill Osama bin Laden also somewhat weakens the perceived "victories" from those two operations. Former Presidential rival and former US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, for instance, claims that the Iraq campaign seriously underminded and diverted resources away from our necessary campaign against the al Queda group and global terrorism. Bush, conversely, maintains we are winning the war on terrorism -- on top of winning in Iraq and Afghanistan.



    • Vice President Richard B. "Dick" Cheney

    Vice Presidential Candidate


  • POLITICAL
    Vice President of the United States, 2001-present [Elected 2000 (47.9% - 271 Electoral Votes)]. US Secretary of Defense, 1989-93. US Congressman, 1979-89 (House Minority Whip, 1988-89) [Elected 1978; Re-Elected 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988]. White House Chief of Staff to President Ford, 1975-77. Deputy Assistant White House Chief of Staff to President Ford, 1974-75. Nixon Administration staff member, 1969-74.
  • PROFESSIONAL
    Chairman/CEO, Halliburton Company, 1995-2000.
  • EDUCATION
    Attended Yale University, 1959. B.A. (Political Science), University of Wyoming, 1965. M.A. (Political Science), University of Wyoming, 1966. Doctoral studies, University of Wisconsin, 1966-68.
  • PERSONAL
    • Born January 30, 1941, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Married since 1964 to Lynne Vincent Cheney (Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1986-1993; author; novelist; educator; conservative activist). Two grown daughters. Methodist. Suffered minor heart attacks in 1978, 1984, 1988 and 2000.

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