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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryGeorge W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).
A play on his surname Bush, a shrub being a smaller bush, thus indicating that he is the junior Bush in relation to his father George H. W. Bush. Popularized by American newspaper columnist Molly Ivins (1944–2007), who co-wrote Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush (2000) with Lou Dubose.
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