George Herbert Walker Bush
Accomplishments of President George Herbert Walker Bush:
- Ambassador to the United Nations
- Head of the Central Intelligence Agency
- Signed the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibiting discrimination based on disabilities
- Signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which compensated people who contracted cancer and other diseases as a result of exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing undertaken during the Cold War
- Reauthorized the Clean Air Act, which requires cleaner burning fuels
- Launched a full-scale air assault and ground invasion against Iraq as part of the Gulf War in retaliation for Iraq’s invasion of neighboring Kuwait
- Invaded Panama in 1989 to oust leader and drug trafficker Manuel Noriega
- Signed START I with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev
- Declared a US-Russian strategic partnership with the Soviet leader following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991
- Spearheaded the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which would later be signed by his left-handed successor Bill Clinton