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Face the Nation with Pres. Bill Clinton and Pres. George W. Bush (1/17/2010)

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Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering

President George W. Bush's Birthday

Today marks the 63rd birthday of our 43rd president, George Walker Bush.  President George Bush served from 2001 to 2009 and was known as "Dubya" or “W.”  The election in 2000 between President Bush and former Vice President Al Gore was very controversal.  It was the fourth time the winner of the popular vote did not win the election.  The winner of the presidential election was later determined by the U.S. Supreme Court, with 5 justices for President Bush and 4 justices for Mr. Gore.  

President George W. Bush is the second president to have a father who was president, too.  Both he and President John Quincy Adams were sons of presidents; both were named after their fathers and used their middle name/middle initial to differentiate themselves from their famous fathers.  To learn more, click on these links:

White House: Biography of  George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (American President: an Online Reference Resource)

George W. Bush Presidential Library (under construction)

Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philosophy

U.S. Supreme Court: Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.

Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. was born in Trenton, New Jersey.  He is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School.  President George W. Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he took his seat on January 31, 2006, replacing Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

For more information, check out the biographies of current Justices here.

Also, check out his biography on The Oyez Project here.

Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philosophy

U.S. Supreme Court: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. hails from Buffalo, New York.  He attended both Harvard College and Harvard Law School.  He also served as a law clerk for then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist.  President George W. Bush nominated him as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he took his seat on September 29, 2005, replacing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist upon his death.

For more information, check out the biographies of current Justices here.

Also, check out his biography on The Oyez Project here.

Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philosophy

Former President George W. Bush's Administration

For those of you interested in any files that may have been on the White House web site during the previous administration, the site has been archived at the following link:
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/.

Keep in mind that the links on this site will not be updated, so they will break as time goes on.

Sonnet Erin Brown
Federal Documents Librarian
Subject Specialist: Political Science/Paralegal Studies