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The union defied the extension of the strike deadline, and no other unions joined in the strike as a result. Even though the strike was confined to just one railroad, 40 railroads in the United States all responded by halting their operations, which unions said was an attempt by the railroad industry to force government intervention in the ...
Through previous administrations, the elder Bush had ubiquitously been known as "George Bush" or "President Bush", but following his son's election, the need to distinguish between them has made retronymic forms such as "George H. W. Bush" and "George Bush Sr." and colloquialisms such as "Bush 41" and "Bush the Elder" more common. [294]
President Bush began his State of the Union Address for the year by reflecting on the memory of Coretta Scott King, who died earlier that day, and Martin Luther King Jr., "the husband who was taken so long ago". [1] Bush then paralleled "moments of national mourning," an indirect reference to the September 11, 2001 attacks with "national ...
The 2005 State of the Union Address was given by the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, on February 2, 2005, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 109th United States Congress.
Jerry Falwell, president of Liberty University [134] Paul X. Kelley, retired general [135] Rich Little, comedian [136] Pat Robertson, minister, 1988 Republican presidential candidate [137] Joe Rogers Jr., president of Waffle House [99] Phyllis Schlafly, activist [138] Ray Scott, president of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society [139]
George H. W. Bush, President of the United States 102nd: January 29, 1991 Joint session State of the Union address: George H. W. Bush, President of the United States March 6, 1991 Joint session End of the Gulf War: George H. W. Bush, President of the United States April 16, 1991 Joint meeting Address Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua ...
Bush opposed the Kyoto Protocol, saying that the treaty neglected and exempted 80 percent of the world's population [43] and would have cost tens of billions of dollars per year. [44] Bush announced the Clear Skies Act of 2003, [45] aimed at amending the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through the use of emissions trading programs. The ...
George Walker Bush [a] (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party, he was the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.