Learn more about George W | While John Adams had groomed his son to be president, George Bush, the 41st president, insisted he was surprised when the eldest of his six children became interested in politics, became governor of Texas, and then went on to the White House |
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The Taliban persecuted the Hazaras when they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 | At the same time he delivered major tax cuts which had been a campaign pledge |
His most controversial act was the invasion of Iraq on the belief that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein posed a grave threat to the United States.
9Bush graduated from Yale, received a business degree from Harvard, and then returned to Midland where he too got into the oil business | Bush, to Russian President Vladimir Putin and less-flattering portrayals of figures such as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein |
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The son spent formative years there, attended Midland public schools, and formed friendships that stayed with him into the White House | President Bush pledged during his 2005 State of the Union Address that the United States would help the Iraqi people establish a fully democratic government because the victory of freedom in Iraq would strengthen a new ally in the war on terror, bring hope to a troubled region, and lift a threat from the lives of future generations |