06 July,2012 08:41 AM IST | | Special Features
>> He began his career in the oil and gas business in Midland, Texas in 1975 and worked in the energy industry until 1986. He was also a served in the Texas Air National Guard.
>> Bush has been arrested three times. Once for driving under the influence of alcohol, once for stealing a large Christmas wreath from a hotel, and once for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after the Princeton-Yale game. He has also had his driver's license suspended for 30 days.
>> He graduated from Yale University with a degree in history, and an MBA from Harvard University. He is the first US president to hold an MBA.
>> He played baseball and was a cheerleader at Phillips Academy at Andover. He is also a fond collector of autographed baseballs and he owns over 250.
>> He is the first US President to receive an acting nomination and then subsequently win the Razzie Award. He was nominated for and won the Worst Actor award in the film Fahrenheit 9/11. Though, technically, he was not acting in the film, but merely playing himself via archive footage.
>> Bush's favourite movies include Friday Night Lights, that is about a Texas high school football team and Saving Private Ryan, a World War II epic from Steven Spielberg.
>> President Bush banned jeans from the oval office, but he often wears his cowboy boots with his suits when meeting foreign dignitaries.u00a0
