The Powers and Limitations of the Presidency: The Early Years of the Bush Administration (2003)

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Gary L. Gregg II (born October 2, 1967),[1] holds the Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership at the University of Louisville[2] and is director of the McConnell Center.[3] He is the author or editor of several books including The Presidential Republic, Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition, and Securing Democracy – Why We Have an Electoral College, which will be coming out in an updated version soon. He is an award winning teacher and has been the national director of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Gregg holds a M. A. and a Ph.D. from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, granted in 1991 and 1994 respectively. Before that, he obtained a B. A. Cum Laude at the Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia in 1990. Books: Gregg II, Gary L. (1997). The presidential republic: executive representation and deliberative democracy. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9780847683789. Gregg II, Gary L.; Spalding, Matthew (1999). Patriot sage: George Washington and the American political tradition. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books. ISBN 9781882926381. Gregg II, Gary L. (1999). Vital remnants: America's founding and the Western tradition. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books. ISBN 9781882926312. Gregg II, Gary L.; Rozell, Mark J. (2004). Considering the Bush presidency. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195166804. Gregg II, Gary L. (2005). Thinking about the presidency: documents and essays from the founding to the present. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780742543379. Gregg II, Gary L. (2008). Securing democracy why we have an electoral college (2nd ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books. ISBN 9781933859477. OCLC 234109155. Gregg II, Gary L. (editor); McConnell, Mitch (editor); Lodge, Henry Cabot (author); Roosevelt, Theodore (author) (2011). Hero tales from American history. Louisville, Kentucky: Butler Books. ISBN 9781935497387. OCLC 825067747. Gregg II, Gary L.; Hall, Mark D. (2012). America's forgotten founders (2nd ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books. ISBN 9781610170239. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_L._Gregg The presidency of George W. Bush began on January 20, 2001, at 12 noon, when he was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States of America. The oldest son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush was elected president in the 2000 general election, and became the second U.S. president whose father had held the same office (John Quincy Adams was the first). After two recounts, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Albert Gore filed a lawsuit for a third. The Supreme Court's highly controversial decision in Bush v. Gore resolved the dispute. The Florida Secretary of State certified Bush as the winner of Florida. Florida's 25 electoral votes gave Bush, the Republican candidate, 271 electoral votes, enough to defeat Al Gore. Bush was re-elected in 2004. His second term ended on January 20, 2009. As president, Bush pushed through a $1.3 trillion tax cut program, and the No Child Left Behind Act, and also pushed for socially conservative efforts such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and faith-based welfare initiatives. Nearly 8 million people immigrated to the United States in 2000 –2005;[1] nearly half entered illegally.[2] During his two terms, the United States lost over six million manufacturing jobs, about one third of the total at the end of the Clinton Administration.[3] After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Bush declared a global War on Terrorism and, in October 2001, ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, destroy Al-Qaeda, and to capture Osama bin Laden. In March 2003, Bush received a mandate from the U.S. Congress to lead an invasion of Iraq, asserting that Iraq was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441.[4] Bush also initiated an AIDS program that committed $15 billion to combat AIDS over five years.[5] His record as a humanitarian included helping enroll as many as 29 million of Africa's poorest children in schools.[6] On his second full day in office, Bush reinstated the Mexico City Policy; this policy required any non-governmental organization receiving US Government funding to refrain from performing or promoting abortion services in other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush