George W. Bush

=== Security incidents ===
{{Main|Security incidents involving George W. Bush}}

==== 2001 White House shooting ====
On February 7, 2001, while Bush was in the residence area of the White House, Robert Pickett, standing outside the perimeter fence, discharged a number of shots from a Taurus .38 Special revolver "in the general direction" of the White House. Pickett was shot in the knee by a [[U.S. Secret Service]] agent and arrested. Furthermore, he was initially charged with discharging a firearm during a crime, carrying a 10-year mandatory sentence, but following a plea agreement, Pickett instead entered a guilty plea to a firearms violation and an [[Alford plea]] to assaulting a federal officer. He was sentenced to three years at the [[Federal Medical Center, Rochester]] followed by three years of probation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://timelines.latimes.com/us-presidential-assassinations-and-attempts/|title=U.S. presidential assassinations and attempts|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=December 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121847|title=Pickett Charged With Assaulting Federal Officer|work=[[ABC News]]|access-date=October 22, 2020|date=January 6, 2006|first=Larry|last=Margasak}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.historyonthenet.com/robert-pickett|title=Robert Pickett: Firing Shots on GW Bush|work=HistoryOnTheNet.com|access-date=October 22, 2020}}</ref>

==== 2005 Tbilisi grenade attack ====
On May 10, 2005, while President Bush was giving a speech in [[Freedom Square, Tbilisi|Freedom Square]], [[Vladimir Arutyunian]], a native [[Georgians|Georgian]] who was born to a family of ethnic [[Armenians]], threw a live Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade toward the podium. It landed in the crowd about {{convert|65|ft|m|0}} from the podium after hitting a girl, but it did not detonate because a red tartan handkerchief was wrapped tightly around it, preventing the safety lever from detaching.<ref>[https://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan06/grenadeattack011106.htm US FBI report into the attack and investigation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411035739/http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan06/grenadeattack011106.htm|date=April 11, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite report |url=http://archive.org/details/12009191 |title=FBI records of the attempted assassination of George W. Bush in Tbilisi, Georgia. |last=Federal Bureau of Investigation |year=2005}}</ref> Georgian President [[Mikheil Saakashvili]] was seated nearby. After escaping that day, Arutyunian was arrested in July 2005. During his arrest, he killed an Interior Ministry agent. He was convicted in January 2006 and given a [[life sentence]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/11/georgia.grenade/index.html|title=Bush grenade attacker gets life|date=January 11, 2006|publisher=CNN|access-date=May 6, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan06/grenadeattack011106.htm|title=The case of the failed hand grenade attack|date=January 11, 2006|publisher=[[FBI]] Press Room|access-date=May 6, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411035739/http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan06/grenadeattack011106.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive -->|archive-date=April 11, 2007}}</ref>

==== 2008 Baghdad shoeing ====
{{Main|George W. Bush shoeing incident}}
[[File:POTUS George W. Bush with Prime Minister of Iraq, Part 2.webm|left|thumb|start=03:30|thumbtime=03:38|Shoeing incident in Baghdad, Iraq, December 2008]]

On December 14, 2008, [[Muntadhar al-Zaidi]], an Iraqi journalist, threw both of his shoes at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad. Bush was not injured, having ducked the pair of shoes.<ref name="Karadsheh">{{cite news|last=Karadsheh|first=Jomana|author2=Cal Perry|title=Bush 'shoe thrower' to be freed from Iraqi jail|publisher=CNN|date=September 14, 2009|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/14/iraq.shoe.thrower/index.html|access-date=October 20, 2021}}</ref> However, White House press secretary [[Dana Perino]] received a bruise on her face after being hit by a microphone boom knocked over by security.<ref>{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Mike|title=Perino bruised in shoe-hurling melee|website=Politico|date=December 14, 2008|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2008/12/perino-bruised-in-shoe-hurling-melee-016568|access-date=October 20, 2021}}</ref> Al-Zaidi received a three-year prison sentence, which was reduced to one year. On September 15, 2009, he was released early for good behavior.<ref name="Karadsheh" />