14 facts about George W Bush
- George W. Bush was a cheerleader.
- Bush is the oldest of 6 siblings. His younger sister, Robin, died of leukemia in 1953, at the age of three.
- George Bush's father, George H. Bush served as the 41st US president, from 1989 to 1993.
- Bush has been arrested for stealing a Christmas wreath.
- George W Bush became the first American president to enter the office after being convicted of a crime.
- Unlike his father, Bush was an average student at school. He graduated from Yale University with a low C average.
- George W Bush had never left the United States until he became president.
- George W. Bush followed his father as president. He is the first son to do so since John Quincy Adams followed John Adams in the early 1800s.
- As governor of Texas, he was responsible for more executions than any other American governor.
- After Benjamin Harrison in 1888, Bush was the first presidential candidate to win the electoral college vote, but lose the popular vote.
- In 1975, he bought an oil company in Midland, Texas. Since he couldn't find any oil in Texas he sold his stock. Shortly after that the company went bankrupt.
- He had a nickname: "Dubya". Mexican cuisine is his favorite and not the southern beef steaks from Texas. He only drinks diet soda and his favorite ice cream flavor is Pralines and cream.
- Bush was nearly assassinated in 2005, while visiting the Soviet State of Georgia. A man named Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live grenade at him; fortunately it failed to explode.
- Christian Methodist by religion, Bush is the third well known Methodist to hold the highest office in the US, after William McKinley and his father.
