The college was in operation for just three years, with only two graduates, one of them Bush's daughter.

**** Pauline Robinson Bush ( 1949 – 1953 ), George H. W. Bush's second child and first daughter, died of leukemia.

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

By the time of the Los Angeles riots of 1992, Bush was a bit late in supporting enterprise zones, tenant ownership and welfare reform: Mort Zuckerman compared Bush's vision on racial issues to that of a man riding backwards in a railroad car.

Kemp was respected within the party for opposing Bush, and towards the end of Bush's administration insiders recognized his value.

In July 2003 Stauber and Sheldon Rampton wrote Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, which argued that the Bush administration deceived the American public into supporting the war.

With the release of the 2008 book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by George W. Bush's press secretary Scott McClellan, there are some who contend that this is evidence of Mark Halperin being correct instead of biased.

However, in Bush's manuscript draft of " Memex II " of 1959 ( also published in ), Bush says, " Professional societies will no longer print papers ..." and states that individuals will either order sets of papers to come on tape-complete with photographs and diagrams-or download ' facsimiles ' by telephone.

Buckland suggests that Bush and his team may not have been aware of Goldberg's earlier work when they built their 1938-1940 prototype, but that IBM researchers and Bush's Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory sponsor certainly were.

*" President Bush Honors Medal of Freedom Recipients ", a news release from the White House Press Secretary, December 15, 2006, containing a transcript of President George W. Bush's opening remarks at the December 15, 2006, presentation ( with link to individual citations ).

The National Science Board established the Vannevar Bush Award ( ) in 1980 to honor Dr. Vannevar Bush's unique contributions to public service.

Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.

Bush had alienated much of his conservative base by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes, the economy was in a recession, and Bush's perceived greatest strength, foreign policy, was regarded as much less important following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the relatively peaceful climate in the Middle East after the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War.

The Clinton campaign received the biggest convention " bounce " in history which brought him from 25 percent in the spring, behind Bush and Perot, to 55 percent versus Bush's 31 percent.

However, as the economy was the main issue, Bush's campaign floundered across the nation, even in strongly Republican areas, and Clinton maintained leads with over 50 percent of the vote nationwide consistently, while Bush typically saw numbers in the upper 30s.

The race narrowed, as Perot's numbers significantly improved as Clinton's numbers declined, while Bush's numbers remained more or less the same from earlier in the race as Perot and Bush began to hammer at Clinton on character issues once again.

Perot managed to finish second in two states: In Maine, Perot received 30. 44 % of the vote to Bush's 30. 39 % ( Clinton won Maine with 38. 77 %); in Utah, Perot received 27. 34 % of the vote to Clinton's 24. 65 % ( Bush won Utah with 43. 36 %).

* Dubya for George W. Bush, a Texan pronunciation of the name of the letter ' W ', President Bush's middle initial.

" For instance, David Souter was appointed in the Supreme Court by President George H. W. Bush in 1990 but in Bush v. Gore case in 2000 vote with minority against President George W. Bush's legal position.

* Bush Brothers and Company, commonly known as Bush's

Inspired by the film Bedtime for Bonzo, in which Ronald Reagan appeared with a chimp, Bell greeted Bush's election with a cartoon entitled " Bigtime for Bonzo ", depicting Bush as Reagan's chimp.

Despite his differences with George W. Bush, Persson has admitted that he is a " truly underestimated politician " in Europe, referring to Bush's abilities as a politician rather than his political views, and the fact that many Europeans see Bush as a less than intelligent leader.

Under the Administration of U. S. President George W. Bush, the Interior Department's maintenance backlog climbed from $ 5 billion to $ 8. 7 billion, despite Bush's campaign pledges to eliminate it completely.

In September 2006 he criticized George W. Bush's plan to permit torture of unlawful combatants: " Shame on President Bush.

Miller and Koch, though Democrats, supported Republican George W. Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, while Powell and Leach supported Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Because Bush's approval ratings were in the 80 % range during the Gulf War, he was described as unbeatable.

According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

During their attack, the Avengers encountered intense anti-aircraft fire ; Bush's aircraft was hit by flak and his engine caught on fire.

The term HyperText was coined by Ted Nelson who in turn was inspired by Vannevar Bush's microfilm-based " memex ".

At one point, Kemp told James Baker, White House Chief of Staff, that Bush's best chance to win reelection was to dump his economic advisors in dramatic fashion.

The song was also sung at Bush's 2005 inauguration by Guy Hovis, former cast member of The Lawrence Welk Show.

Grammer was a guest at President George W. Bush's first inauguration.

Bush's spokesman said, " It was a very tragic accident that deeply affected the families and was very painful for all involved, including the community at large.

Bush's mother, Jenna Welch, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 78.

President Bush's speech on October 18, 2003 was only the second U. S. Presidential address to the Philippine Congress ; U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered the first.

In 2003, Turner challenged Murdoch to a fistfight, and later accused Murdoch of being a " warmonger " as Murdoch was backing President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq.

Bush's residency was unquestioned, as he was Governor of Texas at the time.

Dick Cheney, for instance, was widely regarded as one of President George W. Bush's closest confidants.

In 2004, according to the President George W. Bush's Vision for Space Exploration, use of the Space Shuttle was to be focused almost exclusively on completing assembly of the ISS, which was far behind schedule at that point.

Despite the lack of documentary evidence, and the lack of contemporary reference, other authors have repeated Bush's assertion that Alfred and Mabel married, including John van der Kiste and Bee Jordaan in Dearest Affie, and the assertion is repeated as fact in the official family history ( Das Haus von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha ).

Pelosi strongly opposed the plan, saying there was no crisis, and as minority leader she imposed intense party discipline on her caucus, leading them to near-unanimous opposition to Bush's proposal, and subsequent defeat of the proposed plan.

That date arises from the anticipated depletion of the Trust Fund, so Bush's language " seem to suggest that there's something there that goes away in 2042.

Likewise, there is no historical record of Vice President George H. W. Bush taking the oath when he filled in for President Ronald Reagan during the latter's prostate surgery nor of Cheney taking the oath the second time he assumed George W. Bush's presidential duties.

" Of Bush's credentials as an economic conservative, there is no question at all-he owes his political life to big corporate money ; he's a CEO's wet dream.

On Monday, April 16, 2007, after the shootings at Virginia Tech, and after President Bush's press secretary Dana Perino said, " The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed ," McCarthy issued a press release calling for " legislation to prevent further acts of gun violence.

Interview clips with Ben Barnes, former Speaker of the Texas House, created the impression " that there was no question but that President Bush had received Barnes ' help to get into the TexANG ," because Barnes had made a telephone call on Bush's behalf, when Barnes himself had acknowledged that there was no proof his call was the reason, and that " sometimes a call to General Rose did not work.

The Thornburgh / Boccardi report, however, stated that some of Bush's former instructors or colleagues had told Mapes that Bush had told them that he wanted to go to Vietnam, but that he could not go because there were others ahead of him with more seniority.

Although many bills were passed during Bush's first term, there were several initiatives that he not only spearheaded but which served to shape his general ideology.

Analogously, Texas was dark red during the whole campaign, indicating Bush's strong lead there.

While in Quirin there was public law passed with the title " declaration of war " and three Articles ( 15, 81 and 82 ) of the Articles of War, President Bush's claim relies on a congressional Joint Resolution used as a formal declaration of war ( which has no precise legal definition in the US ) under the War Powers Resolution, and two provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the successor to the Articles of War.

In that broadcast there was hastily included a new opening, which was a response to Bush's speech.

On March 22, 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported on then-Governor George W. Bush's signing of a 1999 bill, the Advance Directives Act, that allowed medical professionals to remove life support from a patient, even over the objections of family members, if the hospital determined that there was no further hope for the patient ( the bill allows the hospital to take into account inability to pay the health insurance carrier of the patient ).

Camp Casey was the name given to the encampment of anti-war protesters outside the Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas during US President George W. Bush's five-week summer vacation there in 2005, named after Iraq War casualty US Army Specialist Casey Sheehan.