Why is George W Bush called the 43rd President when he is only the 42nd person to hold the Presidency?
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It goes by the term of the person to hold the office.  And I don't mean when a person runs for reelection-type term.  Cleveland was president, then he didn't run/lost (I don't remember what happened) then he became president again.  Thus, Cleveland was elected and was the sitting president at two different times, which entitles him to be called the 22nd & 24th.  If he would have done it all at the same time, then it would only be considered one spot.\n\nI imagine this is also done to avoid confusion in history class.
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The President was Ronald Reagan.  The Vice President was George Bush, father to current United States' President G.W. Bush.\n\nThe election which made George Bush, Sr., the president of the United States of America was in 1988, not 1987 (My first election I got to vote in, too).  He was inaugurated on January 20, 1989.  From Election Day to Inauguration, the man who is to be inaugurated is called the President Elect and he has no powers as president until  Inauguration Day, when he takes the Oath of Office.
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The 43rd and current President of the United States is George W. Bush. He is currently serving his second term.\nGrover Cleveland is counted 2 x since he was elected 2 x, but, was separated by another President in between terms, Still, that makes President GW Bush, number 43-\n\n\n   1.  George Washington, 1789-1797\n   2. John Adams, 1797-1801\n   3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809\n   4. James Madison, 1809-1817\n   5. James Monroe, 1817-1825\n   6. John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829\n   7. Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837\n   8. Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841\n   9. William Henry Harrison, 1841\n  10. John Tyler, 1841-1845\n  11. James Knox Polk, 1845-1849\n  12. Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850\n  13. Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853\n  14. Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857\n  15. James Buchanan, 1857-1861\n  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865\n  17. Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869\n  18. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877\n  19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881\n  20. James Abram Garfield, 1881\n  21. Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885\n  22. Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889\n  23. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893\n  24. Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897\n  25. William McKinley, 1897-1901\n  26. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909\n  27. William Howard Taft, 1909-1913\n  28. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921\n  29. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923\n  30. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929\n  31. Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933\n  32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945\n  33. Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953\n  34. Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961\n  35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963\n  36. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969\n  37. Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974\n  38. Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977\n  39. James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981\n  40. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989\n  41. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993\n  42. William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001\n  43. George Walker Bush, 2001-
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George Walker Bush's father is named George Herbert Walker Bush.
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Bush did not run in this Election. It was not a Presidential election.  He cannot run in the next Presidential, because he is limited to 2 terms in office, and he is in his 2nd term now.
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The President?  I guess it depends which country you are talking about - but given the answers already posted to your question it seems that most Americans think that there is only one President in the world!!!
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The president of the United States of America is George W. Bush.  You may call him President Bush.
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What ever happened to something called respect. George Bush is first of all our president and should be treated with respect. He is human, so of course he will make mistakes. At least Mr. Bush hasn't been in bed with every female that is infatuated with him or have a wife that is so power hungry that she'll tell any lie or have people bumped off to achieve her goal of being president. You must remember that what you hear about all the presidents or  anyone in the public eye  is mostly what our corrupt press wants you to hear.
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I think it is a combination of many factors.  I've heard more than one person express that since experiencing Bush's Presidency they realize how good we had it under Clinton.  Also, it's sort of a wake up call when you compare what Clinton was impeached for and what Bush should be impeached for.  I don't want to see impeachment, it is a waste of time for all involved, but I do think he richly deserves it nonetheless.  People do tend to look back with fondness at some Presidents and Americans can very forgiving, depending on the circumstance and the subject.  Bill Clinton has done some great things since his Presidency ended and he stays in the public limelight.  Seeing him standing next to Bush 41 while they work together affects those ratings too.  I think we long for those in power right now to do the same.  I don't think GW should be looking for forgiveness in the future though.  I believe whether it's 10 years or 50 years after his Presidency, he will still have one of the lowest approval ratings ever recorded.
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because george bush is president!
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FDR had polio and was wheelchair bound.  Woodrow Wilson had a stroke in the later years of his presidency. His wife did many of the duties of the president for the remainder of his second term.  George Bush, contrary to popular belief, is not disabled in the traditional sense.  He's just inarticulate, easily led and ignorant of the constitutional limitations that have been placed on the executive branch of the Federal government, kind of like a modern day Warren G. Harding, only with nukes.
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The only president not to be elected as President was Gerald Ford. He was nominated as Vice President after Spiro Agnew resigned as Vice President and Ford became the President after President Richard Nixon resigned after Watergate. He served from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977.
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there is actually two answers to this: one is the fact Grover cleveland held the pos. two diff times, and the other is the fact that both President Bush and Jimmy carter are considered "Half" presidents.
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You must mean a different G.W. Bush as our current occupant of the White House is not MENSA material.  When you believe that a supernatural being talks directly to you and tells you how to run the world, well Houston we have a problem.
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Because he couldn't be President.
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Bush rant yay\n\nGeorge Bushfire Bush is the 43rd President of the United States of America, Jesus Freak, fullbreed Ferengi, pimp daddy, chicken fucker, nobel laureate, causer of all bad things, and honorary Mensa Chairman. Bush was sworn into office on January 20, 2001, re-elected in November, 2004, and sworn at for a second term on January 20, 2005. \n\nBush stole the Puritan Party nomination in the 2000 presidential election and was appointed President amid much controversy. He was re-appointed in the 2004 presidential election. This was due primarily to the fact that his opponent, John Kerry was too busy acting as a living maple tree in the movie Lord of the Rings; in addition, as a result of his uncomfortably intimate relationship with maple syrup, Kerry is the living incarnation of flapjacks and continually changed his opinions and views during the campaign. The failure of the Democrats to defeat Bush in 2004 was because Kerry's voter fraud tactics were much worse than Bush's voter fraud tactics. It is also attributed to their failure to pay their annual tribute to the liberal god, Treeasaurus, on time that year. \n\nEarly Life\nThe eldest son of former President George H. W. Bush (popularly refered to as "Papa Bush") and his formly clandestine wife Barbara Bush (née "Mama Bush"), George Walker Bush ("Baby Bush") was born in a lab experiment on July 6, 1946.He was nicknamed "Walker" because he could walk, but not talk, till he could talk. So, he could walk the walk, but not talk the talk, an affliction that ails him to this day. \n\nHe spent his early life in a Canadian brothel and moved with his parents to the lowly town of Compton, California when he was two years old. Bush, who identifies himself as a "ghetto" of the poor ass town, was raised in Compton and in Houston, Texas with his siblings Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Dorothy and Toto (yes, Toto too!) until he was about 19 years of age. \n\nEdumacation \nAfter graduating from Compton High School in Andover in June 1964, Bush returned to his crack whore girlfriend and attended DeVry University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Cocaine Abuse from Mick Jagger in 1968, with a minor in drunk driving. The only reason Bush was accepted to DeVry and graduated was because he wanted to impress Britney Spears. As a senior, Bush was a member of the secret Skull and Ho's Society. Bush later went on to receive a Master of Political Obfuscation in 2005. \n\nHe then attend Harvard Business School, where he met his best friends for life, Ted Kennedy and Napoleon Bonaparte Washington XIX, a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte and Martha Washington. Bush, Teddy, and "Boney" spent many an evening on their business plan, which entailed seizing control of an Arab country and converting it into a giant solar power plant to serve as a model for the entire Middle East. Sadly, the oiled-up human rights hating administration of President June Carter Cash declared solar power to be a crazy pipe dream, and killed the plan. Bush was crushed. He began drinking heavily again and partying hard, causing his lifelong C average to slide to C-. Yet, he made it through school by the skin of his teeth, largely due to the intervention of his instructor girlfriend, Lt. Kara Thrace (a.k.a., Starbuck). That, and his father bought Harvard a new international airport. \n\nMilitary Experience \nIn May 1968, the public thought the USA was at war in Vietnam. In reality, there was a secret war in Canada, codenamed "Operation Canadian Bacon". Bush tried to enter the prestigious and elite Texas Air National Guard, but was turned down because of family connections. \n\nHe instead was admitted to the militant wing of the Salvation Army. He trained with them for two years, during which time he served as a German V2 flying bomb. He bombed many small no-named towns in Canada, reportedly killing over 42,000 people but in reality only hitting thre
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No, In fact, of the 42 men who have served as President of the U.S., TEN have served less than one full term, and SIX of these served for a shorter time than Kennedy.\n\nHere they are in order of time served (to the nearest month):\n\n1) William Henry Harrison - 1 month*\n2) James Garfield - 6 months*\n3) Zachary Taylor - 16 months*\n4) Warren G. Harding - 29 months*\n5) Gerald Ford - 29 months\n6) Millard Fillmore -32 months\n7) John F. Kennedy - 34 months*\n8) Chester A. Arthur - 42 months\n9) Andrew Johnson - 47 months\n10) John Tyler - 47 months\n\n* -died in office; the others replaced their predecessors mid-term (all becausue of death, except Ford, who became President at Nixon's resignation) and failed to be elected President in their own right (though Arthur did not seek to be elected)