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This is about two presidents that one of them was president of USA and the other is president of USA and also this is about them history
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In 2004, Obama received national
attention during his campaign to
represent Illinois in the United States
Senate with his victory in the
March Party primary, his keynote
address at the Democratic National Convention in July, and his election to the
Senate in November. He began his presidential campaign in 2007, and in 2008,
after a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won sufficient
delegates in the Democratic Party primaries to receive the presidential
nomination.
The inauguratio
n of Barack Obama as
the 44th President
took place on January
20, 2009. In his first few
days in office, Obama
issued executive
orders and presidential memoranda directing the
U.S. military to develop plans to withdraw troops from Iraq.
On September 30, 2009, the Obama administration proposed new regulations on
power plants, factories and oil refineries in an attempt to limit greenhouse gas
emissions and to curb global warming.
On October 8, 2009, Obama signed the Matthew
Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention
Act, a measure that expands the 1969 United States
federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by
a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual
orientation, gender identity, or disability
On March 30, 2010, Obama signed the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act, a reconciliation bill which ends the process of the federal
government giving subsidies to private banks to give out federally insured loans,
increases the Pell Grant scholarship award, and makes changes to the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act.
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is
an American politician and businessman who
was the 43rd President of the United States of
America from 2001 to 2009
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale University in
1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked in oil businesses.
Eight months into Bush's first term as president, the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks occurred. In response,
Bush announced the War on Terror,
an international military campaign
which included the war in
Afghanistan launched in 2001 and
the war in Iraq launched in 2003. In
addition to national security issues,
Bush also promoted policies on the
economy, health care, education,
social security reform,
and amending the Constitution to disallow same-sex marriage
Bush left office in 2009, and was succeeded as president by Barack Obama, who
ran on a platform of change from Bush's policies. Since leaving office, Bush has
returned to Texas and purchased a home in a suburban area of Dallas. He is
currently a public speaker, has written a memoir entitled Decision Points