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 43 | Dubya (Nickname) |
| 43 | Lip (Nickname) |
| 43 | Temporary (Nickname) |
| 43 | Bush Tail (Nickname) |
| 43 | "Late Bloomer" (Nickname) |
| 43 | Patriot Act |
| 43 | No Child Left Behind |
| 43 | Governor of Texas |
| 43 | Dick Cheney (VP) |
| 43 | Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice (Sec. of State) |
| 43 | Paul O'Neill, John Snow, Henry Paulson (Sec. of Treasury) |
| 43 | Donald Rumsfield, Robert Gates (Sec. of Defense) |
| 43 | John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Michael Mukasey (Attorney General) |
| 43 | Gale Norton, Dirk Kempthorne (Sec. of Interior) |
| 43 | Ann Veneman, Mike Johanns (Sec. of Agriculture) |
| 43 | Don Evans, Carlos Guitierezz (Sec. of Commerce) |
| 43 | Elaine Chao (Sec. of Labor) |
| 43 | Tommy Thompson, Michael Leavitt (Sec. of H&HS) |
| 43 | Rod Paige, Margaret Spellings (Sec. of Education) |
| 43 | Mel Martinez, Alphonso Jackson (Sec. of HUD) |
| 43 | Norman Mineta (Sec. of Transportation) |
| 43 | Spencer Abraham, Samuel Bodman (Sec. of Energy) |
| 43 | Al Gore (Opponent) |
| 43 | "Gave mother her white har" (Quote) |
| 43 | Texas and Alabama Air National Guard, first lieutenant |
| 43 | Cowboy, jogger (so fast that the Scret Service had to ride bicycles to keep up), Skull and Bones society |
| 43 | Admired Billy Graham |
| 43 | Stem-cell research issue |
| 43 | 9/11 |
| 43 | Iraq War and the Taliban |
| 43 | Sadam Hussein killed |
| 43 | Lowest polls of all time |
| 43 | Columbia space shuttle exploded |
| 43 | Did not sign the Kyoto Protocol |
| 43 | Attended Yale for his bachelor's degree and Harvard for his master's degree |
| 43 | had problems with alcohol when young and was arrested for DUI and had license suspended for a year |
| 43 | Stays on schedule, five minutes for meetings |
| 43 | Attended Phillips Academy |
| 43 | Played rugby and cheered |
| 43 | Arrested for tearing down goal post and stealing a Christmas wreath |
| 43 | Declared "Jesus Day" in Texas |
| 43 | Owns part of Texas Rangers baseball team |
| 43 | Doesn't read the paper |
| 43 | Uneven grin |
| 43 | Mild hearing loss mangles his English |
| 43 | Fed his pets in the morning |
| 43 | Owned two dogs, Barney and Miss Beazley, and a cat, Willie |
| 43 | Religion: United Methodist |
| 43 | Had twin daughters |
| 43 | Wife was a school teacher and librarian |
| 43 | His First Lady is the only one to have delivered an entire presidential radio address |
| 42 | Slick Willie |
| 42 | Comeback kid |
| 42 | Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
| 42 | Family and Medical Leave Act |
| 42 | Brady Bill |
| 42 | Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act |
| 42 | Communications Decency Act |
| 42 | Telecom Reform Act |
| 42 | Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act |
| 42 | Governor of Arkansas |
| 42 | Arkansas Attorney General |
| 42 | Al Gore (Vice President) |
| 42 | Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright (Secretary of State) |
| 42 | Lloyd Bentsen, Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers (Secretary of Treasury) |
| 42 | Secretary of Defence: Les Aspin, William Perry, William Cohen |
| 42 | Attorney General: Janet Reno |
| 42 | Secretary of Interior: Bruce Babbitt |
| 42 | Secretary of Agriculture: Mike Espy, Dan Glickman |
| 42 | Secretary of Commerce: Ron Brown, Mickey Kantor, William Daley, Norman Mineta |
| 42 | Secretary of Labor: Robert Reich, Alexis Herman |
| 42 | Secretary of H&HS: Donna Shalala |
| 42 | Secretary of Education: Richard Riley |
| 42 | Secretary of HUD: Henry Cisneros, Andrew Cuomo |
| 42 | Secretary of Transportation: Frederico Pena, Rodney Slater |
| 42 | Secretary of Energy: Hazel O'Leary, Frederico Pena, Bill Richardson |
| 42 | Secretary of VA: Jesse Brown, Togo West, Hershel Gober |
| 42 | George H.W. Bush (Opponent) |
| 42 | challenged Americans to 'reinvent America' (Quotes) |
| 42 | "I feel your pain" "Government is not the problem...is not the solution" (Quotes) |
| 42 | Travelgate Controversy |
| 42 | Monica Lewinsky Scandal |
| 42 | Whitewater Controversy |
| 42 | Troopergate, Chinagate, Filegate |
| 42 | Health Care Task Force |
| 42 | NAFTA created (it reduced trade barriers with Mexico) |
| 42 | Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy for military gays |
| 42 | Vince Foster found dead |
| 42 | GATT treaty signed |
| 42 | A boat floated into the U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 |
| 42 | A bomb exploded in the World Trade Center parking garage |
| 42 | Alfred Murrah Federal Building destroyed by explosives in Oklahoma City |
| 42 | Creation of AmeriCorps |
| 42 | Value jet crashed in Florida |
| 42 | Operation Desert Fox |
| 42 | Good Friday Peace Accords in Northern Ireland |
| 42 | Panama Canal given to Panama |
| 42 | Wye River Memordaum |
| 42 | Outstanding saxophone player as a student |
| 42 | Attended Boy's Nation and met 35 at the White House |
| 42 | Attended Georgetown and was a Rhodes Scholar |
| 42 | Fell and broke his ankle at a famous golder's home |
| 42 | Mauled by sheep |
| 42 | Accidentally bombed Chinese Embassy |
| 42 | First Baby Boomer president |
| 42 | Born with the name "William Jefferson Blythe IV" |
| 42 | Second president to be impeached |
| 42 | First president since Roosevelt (26?) to not serve in the military |
| 42 | Youngest governor (as Gov. of Arkansas) |
| 42 | Likes McDonalds for its food |
| 42 | Owned a dog named Buddy and a cat named Socks |
| 42 | Protestant Christianity (Religion) |
| 42 | Father died shortly after his birth |
| 42 | Mother named Virginia who worked as a nurse |
| 42 | First president to have a First Lady with an advanced degree |
| 41 | Poppy |
| 41 | Fatty McGee McGraw |
| 41 | Clean Air Act Amendments |
| 41 | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| 41 | Vice president of the U.S. |
| 41 | Director of Central Intelligence |
| 41 | Chief of the US Liaison office to the People's Republic of China |
| 41 | Chairman of the Republican National Committee |
| 41 | U.S. Ambassador to the UN |
| 41 | U.S. House of Representatives |
| 41 | U.S. Ambassador to China |
| 41 | Vice President: Dan Quayle |
| 41 | Vice President's public mishaps: misspelled "potato" and proclaimed Mars capable of sustaining human life |
| 41 | Secretary of State: James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger |
| 41 | Secretary of Treasury: Nicholas Brady |
| 41 | Secretary of Defence: Dick Cheney |
| 41 | Attorney General: Dick Thornburgh, William Barr |
| 41 | Secretary of Interior: Manuel Lujan |
| 41 | Secretary of Agriculture: Clayton Yuetter, Edward Madigan |
| 41 | Secretary of Commerce: Robert Mosbacher, Barbara Franklin |
| 41 | Secretary of Labor: Elizabeth Dole, Lynn Martin |
| 41 | Secretary of H&HS: Louis Sullivan |
| 41 | Secretary of Education: Lauro Cavazos, Lamar Alexander |
| 41 | Secretary of HUD: Jack Kemp |
| 41 | Secretary of Transportation: Samuel Skinner, Andrew Card |
| 41 | Secretary of Energy: James Watkins |
| 41 | Department of Veterans Affairs: Ed Derwinski |
| 41 | Michael Dukakis political opponent |
| 41 | "A new breeze is blowing and a nation is refreshed by freedom" |
| 41 | "A kinder and gentler nation" |
| 41 | "No new taxes" |
| 41 | "thousand points of light" |
| 41 | Lieutenant in Navy |
| 41 | a jogger, hunter, supply salesman, and left handed first baseman |
| 41 | captain of school's soccer and baseball teams |
| 41 | His first job was painting machinery |
| 41 | Entered the oil business |
| 41 | Skull and Bones club at Yale |
| 41 | pitched horse shoes |
| 41 | Department of Veterans Affairs created |
| 41 | 27th amendment passed |
| 41 | Likes to write letters |
| 41 | In favor of capital punishment, but not abortion |
| 41 | Hates broccoli |
| 41 | Started the Bush-Overbay Oil Development Company Zapata Petroleum Co. |
| 41 | Desert Storm and Desert Shield occurred in Kuwait and Iraq (Dessert, anyone?) |
| 41 | Saddam Hussein was pushed out of Kuwait |
| 41 | Communism collapsed in Europe |
| 41 | East and West Germany are united |
| 41 | Fall of the Berlin Wall |
| 41 | Manuel Noriega captured |
| 41 | Persian Gulf War commences |
| 41 | Voodoo economics |
| 41 | Third World Debt |
| 41 | Exxon Valdez oil spill off coast of Alaska |
| 41 | Official end to the Cold War |
| 41 | Aid sent to Somalia |
| 41 | Graduated from Phillips Academy |
| 41 | flew torpedo bombers off the USS San Jacinto |
| 41 | rescued at sea by an American Submarine |
| 41 | warded the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals |
| 41 | Pioneered in experimental off-shore oil drilling |
| 41 | named acting president under the 25th Amendment on July 13th for several hours while Reagan underwent surgery |
| 41 | attended Hirohito's funeral |
| 41 | got sick in Japan and threw up at a state dinner |
| 41 | named William Bennett "drug Czar" |
| 41 | Attended Yale University, Greenwich Country Day school |
| 41 | played horseshoes and fished |
| 41 | Jogged several times a week |
| 41 | wrote Looking Forward |
| 41 | youngest pilot in the Navy at the time |
| 41 | Second president to have a son that became president |
| 41 | Had Graves disease |
| 41 | Owned a speedboat named Fidelity |
| 41 | Episcopalian religion |
| 41 | Has Hispanic grandchildren |
| 41 | Father was an U.S. Senator |
| 41 | lived in his house in Kennebunkport, Main |
| 41 | Mother, Dorothy Walker Bush, was a stupendous tennis player |
| 41 | All of his family stayed with him at the White House after his inauguration |
| 41 | Met wife Barbara Pierce at a dance |
| 41 | Had five children (with wife, Barbara Pierce) One becomes governor of Texas, the other, Governor of Florida |
| 41 | Nicknamed Silver Fox |
| 41 | Had a child die from leukemia |
| 41 | Wife owned a dog named Millie who "wrote" a book |
| 40 | "fat little Dutchman" |
| 40 | Lived in Tampico above the H. C. Pitney Variety Store |
| 40 | Inspired to be an evangelical Christian by book That Printer of Udell's |
| 40 | First job was lifeguarding |
| 40 | Referring to lifeguarding, he said "I saved 77 lives." |
| 40 | Screen appearances in movies Love Is on the Air, Santa Fe Trail, Knute Rockne, All 1942's Kings Row |
| 40 | Nickname "the gipper" in a film |
| 40 | Assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit in military service |
| 40 | Produced training films for the Army Air Force |
| 40 | Elected to and president of the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild |
| 40 | Hired as the host of General Electric Theater, a series of weekly dramas |
| 40 | Married actress Jane Wyman who divorced him |
| 40 | Only U.S. president to have been divorced |
| 40 | Married Actress Nancy Davis |
| 40 | Frequent expressions of affection with wife, Nancy |
| 40 | Switched from democratic to republican party |
| 40 | "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me." |
| 40 | Gave a rousing speech for Barry Goldwater Called "Time for Choosing" |
| 40 | Governor of California |
| 40 | Goals as governor were to "send the welfare bums back to work" and to "to clean up the mess in Berkeley". |
| 40 | Incident called "Bloody Thursday" when he sent the California highway Patrol to quell protest in UC Berkeley |
| 40 | Presidency, "~ Revolution" |
| 40 | The ~ Diaries |
| 40 | Reagan oldest man elected to the office of the Presidency |
| 40 | The 52 U.S. hostages in Iran released upon assuming office |
| 40 | Attempted assassination by John Hinckley |
| 40 | Told his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck," after having an assassin's bullet removed |
| 40 | First serving U.S. President to survive being shot in an assassination attempt |
| 40 | Air traffic controllers' strike |
| 40 | Increased defense spending in policy of "peace through strength" |
| 40 | Domestic tax policies proposed suggested "trickle-down economics" where benefits to the wealthy eventually affect the poor |
| 40 | Stock market crash led to increased budget deficits (1987) |
| 40 | Beirut barracks bombing during the Lebanese Civil War |
| 40 | Ordered U.S. forces to invade Grenada (practicing containment of communism) |
| 40 | Ordered massive buildup of the United States Military |
| 40 | "The forward march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history" |
| 40 | "Communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written" |
| 40 | First American president ever to address the British Parliament |
| 40 | Soviet fighters downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007, which carried 269 people |
| 40 | Introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative |
| 40 | "Star Wars" |
| 40 | "Morning again in America" - referred to the recovering economy |
| 40 | First American president to open an Olympic Games held in the United States |
| 40 | Record 525 electoral votes won during reelection campaign; every state but Minnesota and D.C. |
| 40 | War on Drugs |
| 40 | First Lady Nancy introduced "Just Say No" drug awareness campaign |
| 40 | "drugs were menacing our society" |
| 40 | Challenger space shuttle disaster |
| 40 | U.S. series of air strikes on Libya |
| 40 | Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) Made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants |
| 40 | Iran-Contra Affair |
| 40 | Largest political scandal in the United States during the 1980s |
| 40 | "Tower Commission" investigated the Iran Contra scandal |
| 40 | Greatest and quickest decline of popularity for an U.S. president |
| 40 | Four summit conferences around the world with Gorbachev |
| 40 | "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" |
| 40 | Signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons |
| 40 | First-ever invocation of the acting president clause of the 25th Amendment |
| 40 | Three skin cancer operations on his nose |
| 40 | Wore custom, technologically advanced hearing aid in both ears |
| 40 | Appointed the first female Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor |
| 40 | Most court appointments of any president with a total of 376 |
| 40 | Retired in the ~ Ranch in Santa Barbara |
| 40 | Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease |
| 40 | Thrown from a horse in Mexico: an episode of head trauma |
| 40 | Reached age of 90, the third former president to do so (John Adams, Herbert Hoover, ~, Gerald Ford) |
| 40 | Tenth U.S. president to lie in state |
| 40 | First U.S. president to die in the 21st century |
| 40 | First states funeral in the U.S. since LBJ in 1973 |
| 40 | Dramatic decrease in Cold War tensions |
| 40 | "the Great Communicator" |
| 40 | First aircraft carrier to be named in honor of a living former president is ~ |
| 44 | Mother was Stanley Ann Dunham born in Kansas |
| 44 | Father had the same anme |
| 44 | Father from Kenya; won scholarships to attend college at the University of Hawaii |
| 44 | Known as Barry in childhood |
| 44 | Mother divorced his father |
| 44 | Learned to surf and swim in Hawaii |
| 44 | Mother remarried to a man named Lolo Soetoro |
| 44 | Grandfather amused tourists by telling them ~ was the great-grandson of Hawaii's first king, Kamehameha. |
| 44 | Family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 44 | Learned Indonesian |
| 44 | Had a half sister called Maya Kassandra |
| 44 | Stepfather Lolo Soetroro |
| 44 | Learned to eat snake meat and grasshoppers, to fly fighting kites, and boxing with stepfather |
| 44 | Went back to Hawaii with his mother and siblings at age 10 |
| 44 | Never saw his father again after age 10 |
| 44 | Would visit Kenya to see his paternal grandmother |
| 44 | Attended a private college preparatory school: Punahou School |
| 44 | Left with maternal grandparents in Hawaii as a fifth grader until 12th grade |
| 44 | maternal grandparents: Stanley and Madelyn Dunham |
| 44 | Quit tennis team after a coach uttered a racial slur against him in high school |
| 44 | Loved to play basketball |
| 44 | Experimented with drugs and alcohol along with his fellow students |
| 44 | Graduated from Columbia University |
| 44 | more coming soon (44) |
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