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''Poppy''
George Herbert Walker Bush
41st President of the United States
(January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993)
Nickname: ''Poppy''
Born: June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts
Father: Prescott Sheldon Bush
Mother: Dorothy Walker Bush
Married: Barbara Pierce (1925- ), on January 6, 1945
Children: George Walker Bush (1946- ); Robin Bush (1949-53); John Ellis ''Jeb'' Bush (1953- ); Neil Bush (1955- ); Marvin Bush (1956- ); Dorothy Bush (1959- )
Religion: Episcopalian
Education: Graduated from Yale University (1948)
Occupation: Businessman, public official
Political Party: Republican
Other Government Positions:
Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1967-71
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1971-72
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1976-77
Vice President, 1981-89 (under Reagan)
Presidential Salary: $200,000/year + $50,000 expense account
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Presidential Election Results:
Year Popular Votes Electoral Votes
1988 George Bush
Michael S. Dukakis 48,881,278
41,805,374 426
111
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1992 Bill Clinton
George Bush
H. Ross Perot 44,909,889
39,104,545
19,742,267 370
168
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Vice President: J. Danforth Quayle (1989-93)
Cabinet:
Secretary of State
James A. Baker, III (1989-92)
Lawrence S. Eagleburger (1992-93)
Secretary of the Treasury
Nicholas F. Brady (1989-93)
Secretary of Defense
Richard B. Cheney (1989-93)
Attorney General
Dick Thornburgh (1989-91)
William P. Barr (1991-93)
Secretary of the Interior
Manuel Lujan (1989-93)
Secretary of Agriculture
Clayton Yeutter (1989-91)
Edward R. Madigan (1991-93)
Secretary of Commerce
Robert Mosbacher (1989-92)
Barbara H. Franklin (1992-93)
Secretary of Labor
Elizabeth H. Dole (1989-90)
Lynn Morley Martin (1990-93)
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Louis W. Sullivan (1989-93)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Jack Kemp (1989-93)
Secretary of Transportation
Samuel Skinner (1989-91)
Andrew H. Card (1992-93)
Secretary of Energy
James Watkins (1989-93)
Secretary of Education
Lauro F. Cavazos, Jr. (1989-91)
Lamar Alexander (1991-93)
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Edward J. Derwinski (1989-92)
Notable Events:
By George H. W. Bush biographer
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W
George Walker Bush
43rd President of the United States
(January 20, 2001 to Present)
Nicknames: ''W'', ''Little George''
Born: July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut
Father: George Herbert Walker Bush
Mother: Barbara Pierce Bush
Married: Laura Welch (1946- ), on November 5, 1977
Children: Barbara Pierce Bush (1981- ), Jenna Welch Bush (1981- )
Religion: Methodist
Education: Graduated from Yale University (1968); Graduated from Harvard Business School (1975)
Occupation: Businessman
Political Party: Republican
Other Government Positions:
Governor of Texas, 1995-2000
Presidential Salary: $400,000/year + $50,000 expense account
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Presidential Election Results:
Year Popular Votes Electoral Votes
2000 George W. Bush
Albert Gore, Jr.
(Vote Not Cast) 50,456,167
50,996,064 271
266
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Vice President: Richard B. Cheney (2001- )
Cabinet:
Secretary of State
Colin Luther Powell (2001- )
Secretary of the Treasury
Paul O'Neill (2001-2002)
John W. Snow (2003- )
Secretary of Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld (2001- )
Attorney General
John Ashcroft (2001- )
Secretary of the Interior
Gale Norton (2001- )
Secretary of Agriculture
Ann Veneman (2001- )
Secretary of Commerce
Don Evans (2001- )
Secretary of Labor
Elaine Chao (2001- )
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Tommy G. Thompson (2001- )
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Mel Martinez (2001- )
Secretary of Transportation
Norman Y. Mineta (2001- )
Secretary of Energy
Spencer Abraham (2001- )
Secretary of Education
Roderick R. Paige (2001- )
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Anthony Principi (2001- )
Secretary of Homeland Security
Tom Ridge (2003- )
Notable Events:
2001
On September 11, terrorists flew hijacked airplanes into both towers of the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashed in Pennsylvania.
By Little George biographer
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Secret History of USA 1989
On March 24, 1989 making its way outward from the port of Valdez, the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on the underwater shoal Bligh Reef, spilling crude oil into Prince William Sound, a 12,400-square-mile channel located in the Gulf of Alaska. Oil leaked out at 20,000 gallons per hour. Within a day, 270,000 barrels had leaked, producing a slick 8 miles long and 4 miles wide. Altogether, the ship spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil, making it the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
June 3, 1989 - Chinese authorities ordered soldiers to attack a peaceful crowd of some 100,000 student demonstrators in Beijing's central Tiananmen Square killing hundreds, wounding thousands and arresting thousands more.
In December 1989 after he was exposed as having secretly violated his own announced sanctions against China over the Tiananmen massacre, Bush emphasized that ''I think we were positioned in the forefront of human rights.''
...the London Financial Times had a long story, a big front page story, that they had unearthed jointly with ABC News, in which they described how in November 1989 Bush and Baker had intervened strenuously to ensure that a billion dollars in credits were given to Saddam Hussein...The Commerce Department, the Treasury Department and the Export Import Bank, which guarentees credits, were all opposed.
Although the Kerry Commission's findings on the U.S.-Contra drug- trafficking link caused little outrage in the U.S. Congress, a Costa Rican congressional committee concluded that the contra-resupply network, operating in Costa Rica and coordinated by North from the White House, doubled as a drug smuggling operation. That finding prompted Oscar Arias Sanchez to bar North and his gang--Poindexter, Secord, Joseph Fernandez and former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs--from ever again setting foot in Costa Rica.
The Associated Press reported this action in a lengthy press wire (7/22/90), but according to ''Extra'' (the Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting newsletter), the ''New York Times'' and all three national networks--perhaps following Congress's example of complacency--failed to carry the story.
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Bush family and S&L Scandal pt1
Neil,George W,George H.W.& Jeb Bush.
The Savings and Loan industry had been experiencing major problems through the late 60s and 70s due to rising inflation and rising interest rates. Because of this there was a move in the 1970s to replace the role of S&L institutions with banks.
In the early 1980s, under Reagan, regulatory changes took place that gave the S&L industry new powers and for the first time in history measures were taken to increase the profitability of S&Ls at the expense of promoting home ownership.
A history of the S&L situation can be found here:
www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/s&l/
What is important to note about the S&L scandal is that it was the largest theft in the history of the world and US tax payers are who was robbed.
The problems occurred in the Savings and Loan industry as they relate to theft because the industry was deregulated under the Reagan/Bush administration and restrictions were eased on the industry so much that abuse and misuse of funds became easy, rampant, and went unchecked.
Additional facts on the Savings and Loan Scandal can be found here:
www.inthe80s.com/sandl.shtml
There are several ways in which the Bush family plays into the Savings and Loan scandal, which involves not only many members of the Bush family but also many other politicians that are still in office and still part of the Bush Jr. administration today. Jeb Bush, George Bush Sr., and his son Neil Bush have all been implicated in the Savings and Loan Scandal, which cost American tax payers over $1.4 TRILLION dollars (note that this is about one quarter of our national debt).Between 1981 and 1989, when George Bush finally announced that there was a Savings and Loan Crisis to the world, the Reagan/Bush administration worked to cover up Savings and Loan problems by reducing the number and depth of examinations required of S&Ls as well as attacking political opponents who were sounding early alarms about the S&L industry. Industry insiders were aware of significant S&L problems as early 1986 that they felt would require a bailout. This information was kept from the media until after Bush had won the 1988 elections.
Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators at $500,000, which Bush and his partners paid. The taxpayers had to pay back the remaining 4 million plus dollars.
Neil Bush was the most widely targeted member of the Bush family by the press in the S&L scandal. Neil became director of Silverado Savings and Loan at the age of 30 in 1985. Three years later the institution was belly up at a cost of $1.6 billion to tax payers to bail out.
By friends of the bush dynasty
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