GEORGE H .W. BUSH 41ST PRESIDENT

GEORGE BUSH George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States(1989–1993). A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President for Ronald Reagan. A congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest former President and Vice President, and the last former President who is a veteran of World War II.

EARLY YEARS Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Bush postponed college, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday, and became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.

EARLY POLITICAL CAREER He became involved in politics soon after founding his own oil company, serving as a member of the House of Representatives and Director of Central Intelligence among other positions. He failed to win the Republican nomination for President in 1980, but was chosen by party nominee Ronald Reagan to be his Vice President, and the two were elected.

FUTURE PRESIDENT In 1988, Bush ran a successful campaign to succeed Reagan as President, defeating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis

LAWS & ACTS Bush signed a number of major laws in his presidency, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; this was one of the most pro-civil rights bills in decades. He is also the only President to successfully veto a civil rights act, having vetoed the job-discrimination protection Civil Rights Act of 1990.  

PANAMA In the 1980s, Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, a once U.S.-supportive leader who was later accused of spying for Fidel Castro and using Panama to traffic drugs into the United States. Bush wanted to remove Noriega and so “Operation Just Cause" was launched. It was a large-scale American military operation of 24,000 soldiers and the first in more than 40 years that was not related to the Cold War Noriega surrendered to the United States and was convicted and imprisoned on racketeering and drug trafficking 

GULF WAR Operation Desert Storm On August 2, 1990, Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein, invaded its oil-rich neighbor to the south, Kuwait; Bush condemned the invasion and began rallying opposition to Iraq in the US and among European, Asian, and Middle Eastern allies. . Bush insisted on a complete withdrawal of Iraqi forces. The planning of a ground operation by US-led coalition forces began forming in September 1990, headed by General Norman Schwarzkopf. Congress authorized the use of Military force with a set goal of returning control of Kuwait to the Kuwaiti government, and protecting America's interests abroad.

1992 Election Ross Perot, a Texas billionaire, ran as a third party candidate causing the Republican vote to split

BILL CLINTON

Served from 1993 to 2001 as the 42nd President of the United States  Served from 1993 to 2001 as the 42nd President of the United States. The first president from the baby boomer generation. Before becoming president, he was the Governor of Arkansas for five two-year terms.

Medical Leave Act of 1993  A United States federal law requiring covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. Qualified medical and family reasons include: personal or family illness, family military leave, pregnancy,  adoption, or the foster care placement of a child

NAFTA Is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada.

Military Events In 1995, U.S. and NATO aircraft attacked Bosnian Serb targets to halt attacks on U.N. safe zones and to pressure them into a peace accord. Clinton deployed U.S. peacekeepers to Bosnia in late 1995, to uphold the subsequent Dayton Agreement To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by anti-guerilla military units in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of U.S. Armed Forces in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999

Terrorist Attacks 1993 World Trade Center On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols

LEWINSKY SCANDAL The Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998, from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old White House Intern, Monica Lewinsky. The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.

Clinton Videos 1st video = WTC Bombing show only 1 minute 5 seconds 2nd video = playing SAX on tv show 3rd video = Oklahoma City Bombing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6Wl5Vbg-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqB7UEdhKug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjh6jyQ7-Mo