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Bill Clintin And George H W Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States of America between 1989 and 1993, hails from a family that has a tradition of public service. Born in 1924, he started off by representing Congress from Texas for two times. In 1988, he won the Republican nomination for President and defeated the Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis to become the President of U.S. |
Bush was instrumental in bringing together a consensus for military help to Kuwait when it was invaded by Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. Despite this, the tumbling economic growth, spurt of violence in cities and mounting deficit spending cost his reelection bid in 1992. Democrat Bill Clinton succeeded George H W Bush as the 42nd President of the U.S.
William Jefferson Clinton is only the second President, since Franklin Roosevelt in the history of U.S., to be reelected for a second term. He held office between 1993 and 2001. Bill Clinton was hugely successful and very popular among the masses.
Born in 1946, Clinton graduated from Georgetown University and became the Governor of Arkansas in 1978. He defeated incumbent George H W Bush, and third party candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 U.S elections to become the President. His infamous personal transgressions earned him the dubious distinction of becoming only the second President to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
Once out of their offices, George H W Bush and Bill Clinton, as former Presidents, decided to do country wide community service. Bill Clinton runs The William J. Clinton Foundation that focuses on many global issues such as world climate challenges, HIV/AIDS in Asian and African countries, solutions to childhood obesity in the U.S and special issues like economic development in Africa and Latin America.
George H W Bush is a part of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Bush School of Government and Public Service, George Bush Museum Store, and George Bush Monument in Houston, Texas.
After the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that killed thousands of people worldwide and left millions homeless, George H W Bush and Bill Clinton came together for tsunami rehabilitation. They together raised funds for the rebuilding the livelihoods of tsunami survivors and their families in the worst hit Asia.
The former presidents also joined hands to raise funds for hurricane Katrina relief in Louisiana and Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina affected 500,000 people in the U.S. Once foes, the two became friends, and this was evident when on the long flight to Asia for tsunami rehabilitation Clinton reportedly slept on air mattresses giving the one bed on the plane to Bush.
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