LYCOS RETRIEVER 
George H. W. Bush: George W. Bush
built 236 days ago
On January 3, 2005, President George W. Bush named him and Bill Clinton to lead a nationwide campaign to help the victims of Asian tsunamis. They both appeared on the Super Bowl XXXIX pregame show on Fox on February 6, 2005 in support of their bipartisan effort to raise money for relief of the December 26, 2004 tsunami in southeast Asia through the USA Freedom Corps, an action which Bush described as "transcending politics." Thirteen days later, they both traveled to the affected areas to see how the relief efforts were going. Despite their history as political opponents, the two former presidents have become friends.
Source:
For these Republicans, one of the major attractions of George W. Bush as a candidate was his pro-immigration positions and his supposed attractiveness to Hispanics. Throughout the campaign Mr. Bush repeatedly called for more immigration from Latin America, praised its results, and distanced himself from immigration restriction. Last August, Mr. Bush described the effects of immigration in these glowing terms in a speech to a Hispanic audience in Miami:
Source:
His son, George W. Bush, is the 43rd president of the United States. The elder Bush is referred with various nicknames and titles, including "former President Bush", "Bush the Elder" (and variations), George Bush Senior," "Bush 41", "Daddy Bush", "Papa Bush", "the first President Bush", "George I", or simply "41" in order to avoid possible confusion between his presidency and that of his son. (Although the names of the two men are similar, they are not identical—George W. Bush lacks his father's middle name "Herbert"—and they do not use the appellations Junior and Senior). During his term of office he was known simply as President George Bush, without any initials, as his son had never held elective office and was not especially well-known to the public.
Source:
"Having lost the majority in Congress and now in the twilight of his presidency, George W. Bush has become a fiscal conservative. That’s quite a turnabout and requires considerable mental gymnastics to even contemplate, given Bush’s record: When he took office in 2001, the federal budget was in surplus and the national debt was $5.7 trillion. The debt is now just under $9 trillion and growing." USA Today editorial, 9/24/07
Source:
The administration of George W. Bush has systematically moved to destroy the balance of powers between the executive and judicial branches of the federal government, the balance that is established in the United States Constitution. Under Bush's watch, Attorney General John Ashcroft has moved to reduce the ability of judges to deliberate when sentencing individuals convicted of a crime. Judges are there to restrain the baser impulses of the executive branch -- and the Bush-Ashcroft team wants to take them out of the picture.
Source:
Bush was inaugurated for his second term on January 20, 2005; the oath was administered by Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Bush's inaugural speech centered mainly on a theme of spreading freedom and democracy around the world. George W. Bush is the only President to win re-election after losing the popular vote in his first election. Of the three other Presidents who lost the popular vote, John Quincy Adams and Benjamin Harrison were defeated in their bids for a second term, and Rutherford B. Hayes did not seek re-election.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
George W. Bush