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George Herbert Walker Bush

Ambassador to the United Nations Head of the Central Intelligence Agency

Accomplishments of President George Herbert Walker Bush:

  • Ambassador to the United Nations

  • Head of the Central Intelligence Agency

  • Signed the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibiting discrimination based on disabilities

  • Signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which compensated people who contracted cancer and other diseases as a result of exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing undertaken during the Cold War

  • Reauthorized the Clean Air Act, which requires cleaner burning fuels

  • Launched a full-scale air assault and ground invasion against Iraq as part of the Gulf War in retaliation for Iraq’s invasion of neighboring Kuwait

  • Invaded Panama in 1989 to oust leader and drug trafficker Manuel Noriega

  • Signed START I with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Declared a US-Russian strategic partnership with the Soviet leader following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991

  • Spearheaded the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which would later be signed by his left-handed successor Bill Clinton

Accomplishments of President George Herbert Walker Bush:

  • Ambassador to the United Nations

  • Head of the Central Intelligence Agency

  • Signed the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibiting discrimination based on disabilities

  • Signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which compensated people who contracted cancer and other diseases as a result of exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing undertaken during the Cold War

  • Reauthorized the Clean Air Act, which requires cleaner burning fuels

  • Launched a full-scale air assault and ground invasion against Iraq as part of the Gulf War in retaliation for Iraq’s invasion of neighboring Kuwait

  • Invaded Panama in 1989 to oust leader and drug trafficker Manuel Noriega

  • Signed START I with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Declared a US-Russian strategic partnership with the Soviet leader following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991

  • Spearheaded the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which would later be signed by his left-handed successor Bill Clinton

Accomplishments of President George Herbert Walker Bush:

  • Ambassador to the United Nations

  • Head of the Central Intelligence Agency

  • Signed the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibiting discrimination based on disabilities

  • Signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which compensated people who contracted cancer and other diseases as a result of exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing undertaken during the Cold War

  • Reauthorized the Clean Air Act, which requires cleaner burning fuels

  • Launched a full-scale air assault and ground invasion against Iraq as part of the Gulf War in retaliation for Iraq’s invasion of neighboring Kuwait

  • Invaded Panama in 1989 to oust leader and drug trafficker Manuel Noriega

  • Signed START I with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Declared a US-Russian strategic partnership with the Soviet leader following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991

  • Spearheaded the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which would later be signed by his left-handed successor Bill Clinton

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