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George W. Bush (Present)

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    George W. Bush was born in 1946 and grew up in Houston and Midland Texas.  As a young man he was graduated from Yale University and earned a Master's degree in business administration from Harvard.  After college he became a businessman, working in the oil and gas industries near Midland.  He also spent several years in the 1980's as a managing partner in the Texas Rangers baseball team.  After working on his father, George Bush's, successful 1988 presidential campaign, he set his sights on a political career.  In 1994 he was elected governor of Texas, and he was re-elected in 1998.  As a Republican candidate, he was elected in 2000 to the presidency.  Politically he adheres to conservative values similar to those expressed by Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr.  He has termed his ideology "compassionate conservatism," and stresses the need to include all Americans in the prosperity currently enjoyed by the United States.  He also promises to overhaul America's education system, cut taxes, and institute needed Social Security reform.

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