It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.

David Kuo
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In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush was elected as the president of the United States. He defeated John Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry. During his stint as a governor of Texas, George W.

Bush had a very active family life. In fact, he was one of the first governors to have a child born on-time. His son Jeb Bush became governor of Florida after him and his daughter was even elected to the US Senate in 2004.

In the late 1970s, George W. Bush married Laura Welch, whom he had been dating since high school. The two were married for four years before divorcing in 1981.

She would have been thirty years old at the time of their divorce. Bush would go on to marry his second wife, Barbara Pierce, a year later. They were married for twenty years before they divorced in 1999.

Mrs. Pierce was a former model who had been married four times before she got together with George W. Bush.

Source: Tempting Faith: An Inside Story Of Political Seduction

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