Texas Governor George W. Bush takes the official oath of office with wife Laura by his side during the inauguration ceremony in Austin, Texas January 19. 
Bush, who is entering his second term, was an early favourite in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000.

Emma Frampton 6, yawns while Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush listens to his wife Laura at reading session with children June 14. 
Emma wore a tiara to celebrate her birthday. Bush is in New Hampshire campaigning for the first time.

Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain of Arizona talks with Texas Governor George W. Bush as they walk off the set together after a debate with all six of the Republican presidential candidates in Manchester, New Hampshire, December 2. 
The debate is the first that Republican front-runner Bush has participated in. 

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor George W. Bush looks at Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Al Gore as he answers a question during the town hall-style presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, October 17, 2000. 

Charles Burton, chairman of the Palm Beach County, Florida, Board of Elections, views a ballot during the manual and machine recount of votes, November 11, 2000. 
The counting began despite a legal challenge by Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's campaign.

U.S. President George W. Bush listens as White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card informs him of a second plane hitting the World Trade Centre while Bush was conducting a reading seminar at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, in this September 11, 2001. 

Accompanied by Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush speaks in front of the west side of the Pentagon September 12, 2001 where terrorists plunged an airliner early Tuesday, September 11. 

U.S. President George W. Bush talks to fire-fighters at the scene of the World Trade Centre disaster in New York, September 14, 2001. 
The World Trade Centre Towers and 7 World Trade Centre were all destroyed after both the landmark towers were struck by two planes in a terrorist attack on September 11.

U.S. President George W. Bush addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York November 10, 2001. 
President Bush, in his first appearance before the U.N. General Assembly, asked for action in the U.S.-led war on terrorism instead of sympathy for the September 11 attacks. 
"The time for sympathy has now passed. The time for action has now arrived," Bush told 48 presidents and prime ministers and 114 foreign ministers at the opening of the annual gathering in New York.

U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair speak to members of the press in the grand foyer of the White House November 7, 2001. 
Bush and Blair met to discuss the ongoing operations in Afghanistan. 

Donning U.S. President George W. Bush masks, Japanese anti-war demonstrators protest outside the U.S. embassy against a possible U.S.-led war on Iraq in Tokyo February 15, 2003. 
Hundreds of people assembled in front of the embassy, shouting anti-war slogans.

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry looks at U.S. President George W. Bush as Bush answers a question during the town hall format debate at Washington University in St. Louis Missouri, October 8, 2004. 

U.S. President George W. Bush gives a ride in a golf cart to new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Presidential retreat, Camp David, outside of Thurmont, Maryland, July 29, 2007

U.S. President George W. Bush reacts as he is pulled on stage to dance with Senegalese performers from the West African Dance Company during an event marking Malaria awareness day, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington April 25, 2007.

U.S. President George W. Bush welcomes Republican Party Presidential hopeful John McCain (R) and his wife Cindy on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, March 5, 2008

U.S. President George W. Bush pauses during his final press conference in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington, January 12, 2009.