The Bush Legacy: How will George W. Bush be remembered? Each commander in chief of the United States is remembered for only a few key events or moments of his presidency. Bill Clinton will forever be associated with sex scandals despite the gilded economy he presided over. John F Kennedy is considered a hero for having managed a historical moment (the Cuban missile crisis). George W. Bush is no different. Two events marked his tenure and I suspect will form his legacy. I am obviously referring to September 11th and the subsequent war in Iraq. Bush's presidency was one of the extremes in that he received both the highest and lowest approval ratings since polls began, ranging from 90% immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks, to 28% in June 2008. Perhaps it's easy to remember George Bush as a poor orator, someone who finished last in his class at Yale, basically an unremarkable man who should never have been president. In an era when the sitting president is forgotten in favor of the election race of the century, it is easy to remember Bush as a thoroughly unpopular president who stained America for the worse. However unintelligent and uneloquent George W Bush united a nation in the days after September 11, 2001. His overwhelming sentiments expressed from the rubble of the World Trade Center with the brave firefighters at his side showed a strong leader who loved his village. His reaction to 9/11 is essential to determining his legacy because it is an event that will be talked about and learned about for years to come. He is imprinted in the hearts and minds of Americans and therefore for many so is George Bush. Once the war in Iraq is over, the image of the falling towers will remain and the president will be remembered for his handling of this crisis. The atrocities committed in Iraq are likely to seem as distant to Americans as those that still befall the Vietnamese every day. Bush appeared strong, capable and resolute after 9/11 and this, I predict, will have more staying power than the unpopularity resulting from a war in the Middle East. When the president talks about the terrorist attacks he seems to be deeply touched by them, which speaks to Americans, gives them solidarity and unity. As his press secretary recently put it: "The president thinks about 9/11 every day when he wakes up and before he goes to bed"..