Interesting Facts About George W Bush

By Wanda Rosner


George W. Bush is known to have served as the US president for 8 years that was from 2001-2009. Bush is regarded as the most fascinating president of US who was encircled with rumors, gossip and mystery. His life had a variety of interesting and amazing facts.

George W. Bush is considered as the first US president who participated in a marathon. He is known to have finished it within a period of 3 hours and 44 minutes. Bush is considered to have spared enough time during his presidency to workout in running at the Camp David which was the Presidential Retreat.

He was the only president who supervised and played baseball. For example, he was the organizing director of Major League Baseball Team of Texas Rangers. Bush is also the only chosen leader in the world to have participated in a League. Additionally, he was the only US leader ever who people to play T-ball games within the White House Lawn.

Bush is as well the first president in history to have delivered speech in both English and Spanish. This was in 5th May 2005 during in the first Weekly Radio Address of the US President. Bush is known to have cherished eating deviled eggs, honey sandwiches, pretzels, peanut butter and grilled cheese sandwiches.

He is the first US president who took more unofficial trips, spend the longest vacation period and spend the largest amount of such trips. He is known on august 2005 to have spent five weeks on a vacation. When averaged, the total amount of money he spent per hour in these trips was between $ 56000 and $ 68000. He spent a total of 900 days which totaled to 2 years for the period of eight years.

Bush is as well known to have spent some of his childhood taking drugs. In the early twenties Bush was arrested due to the claim that he was driving while still drunk. However, it is also great that later in 1986, Bush quit smoking after his wife urged him to stop.

Other amazing facts about the life of Bush were that, even with his character he had married the best lady ever. Laura Bush is known to have conducted herself under the best manners ever and she has never humiliated his nation or husband. She also acted as the best first lady in US during the swearing of Obama as the next president.

These are a few of the less known facts you might not be aware of regarding George W Bush. Many of these facts are known to have occurred when he was the president and before he was chosen to be the United States President. A number of them also center on the life of his wife Laura Rose Bush who is regarded as the most wonderful First Lady because she had the best character in the history of all the wives of the United States Presidents.




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