George W. Bush was born in New Haven, CT, on July 6, 1946, the first son of George HW Bush. He grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas with four brothers. There should have been five, but her sister Robin died of leukemia when she was three in 1953. George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a U.S. senator from Connecticut. George W. Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, served as vice president from 1981 to 1989 and president from 1989 to 1993. He had a major influence on his son George W. Bush's life. George Bush attended public schools in Midland, Texas until the family moved to Houston after he finished seventh grade at a Midland Middle School. He then attended the Kinkaid School, a preparatory school in Houston, for two years. George ended up finishing high school at Phillips Academy, an all-boys boarding school in Massachusetts, where he played baseball and his senior year was, to my surprise, the head cheerleader. Bush attended Yale University from 1964 to 1968, majoring in history. While at Yale he was a cheerleader and a member of Frat Delta Kappa Epsilon, and was elected president of the fraternity his senior year. George Bush was also a member of the Skull and Bones society as a senior at Yale. In the fall of 1973, Bush enrolled at Harvard Business School, where he earned a master's degree in business administration. He is the only US president to date to have earned an MBAA. During a backyard barbecue in 1977, George was introduced to his future wife Laura, a school teacher and librarian. Bush proposed to her after just three months of courtship, and they married on November 5, 1977, the same year they met. The couple settled in Texas George's childhood hometown of Midland. November 25, 1981... half of the document... l from Senator Ted Kennedy. Bush made his debut as a motivational speaker on October 26 at the "Get Motivated" seminar in Dallas. In the aftermath of the November 5, 2009 Fort Hood shooting in Texas, the Bushes paid a secret visit to survivors and victims' families the day after the shooting, after contacting the base commander requesting that the visit be private and do not involve press coverage. They spent an hour or two at the base. Bush published his memoir, Decision Points, on November 9, 2010. During a pre-release appearance to promote the book, Bush said he considered his greatest accomplishment to have kept "the country safe in the midst of a real danger,” and his greatest failure being his failure to secure passage of Social Security reform. President Bush may not have always done the job right, but he certainly did.