Bush’s biography

George Walker Bush was born in July 6, 1946. He is the 43rd and current President of the
United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. He was re-elected in the 2004 Presidential election. He formerly served as the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. A Republican, he belongs to the politically influential Bush family, being a son of former president George Bush and elder brother to Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida.He was president during the September 11, 2001 attacks and responded by declaring a global War on Terrorism. In October 2001 he ordered the invasion of
Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and destroy Al-Qaeda. In March 2003, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, asserting that
Iraq was in violation of UN Resolution 1441 regarding weapons of mass destruction and had to be disarmed by force. Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Bush committed the U.S. to establishing democracy in the Middle East, starting with Afghanistan and
Iraq.Historical background.  Bush sworn into his second term on January 20, 2005 by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, watched on by First Lady Laura Bush and their daughters Barbara and Jenna Bush, as well as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.Bush was inaugurated for his second term on January 20, 2005. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Bush’s inaugural address centered mainly on a theme of spreading freedom and democracy around the world.For his second term, Bush assembled what is regarded as one of the most diverse
U.S. cabinets in history, with the appointments of the first Hispanic American U.S. Attorney General and Commerce Secretary, as well as making Condoleezza Rice the first African American woman to head the U.S. State Department. Bush retained Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, whose dismissal had been demanded by many in the U.S. Congress. During a visit to the

Republic of
Georgia on May 10, 2005, Vladimir Arutinian attempted to assassinate Bush. Arutian threw a grenade that failed to detonate which eventually landed in the large crowd some 18.6 meters (61 feet) from the podium where Bush was delivering a speech.In August 2005, with his nomination of the controversial John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations filibustered by the Senate, 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.In 2006, Bush replaced long-time chief of staff Andrew Card with Joshua Bolten and undertook major staff and cabinet changes with the stated intention of revitalizing his Administration.In November 2006, Bush announced plans to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with former CIA Director Robert Gates, in response to pressure from the midterm elections and military publications.

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