ACTOR · BORN 1946

George W. Bush

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George W. Bush (born 6 July 1946) is an actor best known for Bowling for Columbine.

8 Interesting Facts About George W. Bush

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#001
A statement he made in January 2001 mentioned the "operating location near Groom Lake", marking the first official acknowledgment that Area 51 exists.
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#002
Owns the look-alike puppet of himself from the French show Les Guignols de l'info (1988).
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#003
No other president has seen his actions trigger a major feature film (Fahrenheit 9/11, 2004), the founding of a whole radio network (Air America Radio) and the debut of a TV series (The Al Franken Show on Sundance Channel, 2004).
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#004
According to Gallup polls, he holds both the highest and the lowest approval ratings of any president. Bush's approval stood at 90 percent after the 9/11 attacks, but by late 2008, as his presidency neared its end, it had fallen to around 25 percent.
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#005
Avoids publicly criticizing or commenting on the presidents who followed him.
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#006
Refers to every routine White House strategy meeting as a "strategery" meeting, a nod to Will Ferrell's impression of him on Saturday Night Live (1975).
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Is the first U.S. president to be nominated for a Razzie and then win one. He took Worst Actor for Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), though he was not really acting in it, only appearing as himself in archive footage.
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#008
Two arrests during his college years, both with charges later dropped: one for tearing down Princeton's goal posts while celebrating a Yale football win, the other for "borrowing" a large Christmas wreath from a store doorway (source: Washington Post).
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