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key events in the life of George W. Bush George H.W. Bush and his family, 1964 George W. Bush at Yale University George W. Bush and his family, 1993 George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, 1992 George W. Bush: swearing-in as governor George W. Bush: reelection as governor
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In 1994 Bush challenged Democratic incumbent Ann Richards for the governorship of Texas. A major issue in the campaign concerned Bush’s sale of all his Harken stock in June 1990, just days before the company completed a second quarter with heavy losses. An investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1991 into the possibility of illegal insider trading (trading that takes advantage of information not available to the public) did not uncover any wrongdoing. Bush won the election with 53 percent of the vote (compared with 46 percent for Richards), thus becoming the first child of a U.S. ...(100 of 6341 words)

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