Important Information:
- Bush postponed college after the attack on Pearl Harbor and enlisted in the Navy.
- He was the last President to serve in WWII.
- After the war, he attended Yale University and moved to Texas, where he entered the oil business and became a millionaire by age 40.
- Foreign policy drove the Bush presidency. Military operations were conducted in Panama and the Persian Gulf.
- From there Bush suffered from the economic recession and lost the 1992 election to Bill Clinton.