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List of nicknames used by George W. Bush

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Former American President George W. Bush is widely known to use nicknames to refer to journalists, fellow politicians, and members of his White House staff.

Family

Nickname	Personal name	Notes
Poppy	url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2001/02/12/dubbed.html	title=On being dubbed by Dubya	last=Trudeau	first=Garry	date=January 31, 2001	work=CNN	access-date=May 8, 2010}}	41st President of the United States, George W. Bush's father
Bushie	Laura Bush	43rd First Lady of the United States, George W. Bush's wife. Nickname is mutual.

Foreign leaders

Nickname	Personal name	Office
Dino	Jean Chrétien	20th Prime Minister of Canada
Pootie-Poot	Vladimir Putin	President and former Prime Minister of Russia
Ostrich Legs
Bandar Bush	Bandar bin Sultan	Former ambassador to the United States from Saudi Arabia
Landslide	url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/rnc/9719/	title=George W. Bush's Nicknames for His Friends and Enemies	date=May 21, 2005	publisher=Nymag.com	access-date=October 2, 2011}}	Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Man of Steel	John Howard and Kevin Rudd	Former Prime Ministers of Australia
Juni	Junichiro Koizumi	56th Prime Minister of Japan
Saak	Mikheil Saakashvili	3rd President of Georgia

Staff

Nickname	Personal name	Notes
Big Time	Dick Cheney	46th Vice President of the United States of America
Vice
Rummy	Donald Rumsfeld	21st Secretary of Defense
Izzy	Israel Hernandez	Special Assistant. The latter nickname was given for his role as provider of breath mints to the President on the campaign trail.
Altoid Boy
Boy Genius	Karl Rove	Senior Advisor to the President of the United States
Turd Blossom
The Architect
Condi	Condoleezza Rice	Secretary of State
Guru
The World's Greatest Hero	Colin Powell	Secretary of State
Big O	Paul O'Neill	Secretary of the Treasury. "Big O" superseded the alternate term.
Pablo
Fredo	url=http://www1.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/04/20/gonzales/index.html	title=A Gonzales resignation is not enough	last=Elliott	first=Justin	work=Salon	access-date=October 2, 2011	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211083754/http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/04/20/gonzales/index.html	archive-date=February 11, 2009	df=mdy-all}}	Attorney General
Barty	Dan Bartlett	Deputy Chief of Staff
Bart
Danny Boy
Captain Dan
Dan the Man
Ari-Bob	Ari Fleischer	White House Press Secretary
High Prophet	Karen Hughes	Special Advisor, Director of Communications under Texas Governor George W. Bush
Hurricane Karen
The Blade	Mitch Daniels	Office of Management and Budget Director
My Man Mitch
Big Country	Joe Allbaugh	Federal Emergency Management Agency Director
Brownie	Michael D. Brown	Federal Emergency Management Agency Director
Brother George	George Tenet	CIA Director
Tree Man	Unnamed	Forest Service official
Tangent Man	Andrew Card	White House Chief of Staff
Tiny	Richard Armitage	Deputy Secretary of State
Light Bulb	Andrew D. Lundquist	National Energy Policy Development Group Executive Director
Bullets	Ann Veneman	Secretary of Agriculture
M&M	Mary Matalin	Assistant to Dick Cheney
Horny	Jonathan Horn	White House Speechwriter
Scrote	Ronny Jackson	Physician to the President

Politicians

Nickname	Personal name	Notes
Bama	Barack Obama	44th President of the United States
Rock
Boner	John Boehner	Republican Majority Leader, later Speaker of the House
No. 3	Nancy Pelosi	Speaker of the House
Big Boy	Chris Christie	United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, later Governor of New Jersey
Jazzman	John Conyers	Michigan United States Congressman
Pablo	Paul Wellstone	Minnesota Senator
Pedro	Peter King	New York Congressman
Hogan	John McCain	Arizona Senator, Republican nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election
Big George	George Miller	California Congressman
Freddy Boy	Fred Upton	Michigan Congressman
Freddo
Congressman Kickass	John Sweeney	New York Congressman
url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/senator.name.ap/index.html	title=Bush uses new nickname for senator	date=January 14, 2005	publisher=CNN	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050115102120/http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/senator.name.ap/index.html	archive-date=January 15, 2005}}	Ben Nelson	Nebraska Senator. "Nellie" was superseded by its alternative.
Benny
Benator
Ellis	Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer	New York Senator
Ali	Barbara Boxer	California Senator
Frazier	Dianne Feinstein	California Senator
Sabertooth	Barney Frank	Massachusetts Congressman
Red	Adam Putnam	Florida Congressman

Journalists

Nickname	Personal name	Notes
The Cobra	Maureen Dowd	New York Times columnist
Stretch	David Gregory	Television journalist formerly with NBC, currently with CNN
Little Stretch
Stretch	Dick Kyle	Political correspondent with Bloomberg News
Super Stretch	Bill Sammon	Former White House correspondent for The Washington Times and The Washington Examiner, current Fox News editing manager
Mikey	Mike Emanuel	Fox News White House correspondent
Shades	Peter Wallsten	Political reporter with the Wall Street Journal. Bush mocked him for wearing sunglasses inside, not knowing Wallsten is partially blind.
Panchito	Frank Bruni	New York Times reporter who covered the Bush campaign in 2000

Others

Nickname	Personal name	Notes
Kenny Boy	Kenneth Lay	Enron Corporation CEO
Weadie	Doug Wead	Author
Weadnik
The Englishman	Peter McMahon	Dana Perino's husband
Flies on the Eyeballs Guy	Cofer Black	Director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center
Rosey	Jack Rosen	Chief Executive of Rosen Partners LLC.

References

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Gormley, Beatrice. ["Laura Bush: America's First Lady"]({{Google books).
"CBC News Indepth: Canada – U.S. relations". CBC News.
Reynolds, Paul. (May 23, 2002). "Analysis: Bush and Putin on nickname terms". BBC News.
''[[Parade (magazine). Parade]]'', "Bye-Bye Landslide & Fredo", September 30, 2007, p. 19
(June 7, 2007). "Profile: Prince Bandar". BBC News.
(May 21, 2005). "George W. Bush's Nicknames for His Friends and Enemies". Nymag.com.
(March 29, 2008). "AM – Bush anoints Rudd as the new 'man of steel'". Abc.net.au.
"The reason why George nevertheless enjoys Juni - dideiva.lt".
[https://youtube.com/watch?v=8HLN9DaAuhY&t=3556s Interview with Mikheil Saakashvili] by [[Dmitry Gordon]]
(June 26, 2005). "Names & Faces". The Washington Post.
Hasan, Mehdi. (January 2, 2002). "NS Profile – Colin Powell". New Statesman.
"Bush Sought 'Way' To Invade Iraq?". CBS News.
(January 13, 2004). "The education of Paul O'Neill". TODAY.
Elliott, Justin. "A Gonzales resignation is not enough". Salon.
Milbank, Dana. (April 28, 2002). "Message Man Is Like a Younger Bush". The Washington Post.
"JewishJournal.com". JewishJournal.com.
(March 31, 2004). "'Hurricane Karen' blows hot for Bush". The Age.
Slevin, Peter. (October 4, 2004). "In Indiana Race, Bush's Budget Blade Becomes 'My Man Mitch'". The Washington Post.
Stevens, Dana. (September 28, 2011). "Who Is Joe Allbaugh?". Slate.
"Top Worldwide". Bloomberg.com.
Borger, Julian. (May 20, 2002). "Bush's love of Pootie-Poot Putin". The Guardian.
Taibbi, Matt. (March 1, 2016). "Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Trump".
(March 24, 2008). "FRONTLINE: bush's war". PBS.
(July 18, 2007). "Papers Detail Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Report". The Washington Post.
"Ann Veneman".
"[https://www.npr.org/2014/01/11/261395090/political-consultant-mary-matalin-plays-not-my-job Political Consultant Mary Matalin Plays Not My Job]", [[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Wait Wait....Don't Tell Me!]], January 11, 2014
Latimer, Matthew. (September 22, 2009). "Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor". Crown/Archetype.
"[https://www.mediaite.com/weird/dr-ronny-jackson-trumps-pick-to-head-va-was-nicknamed-scrote-by-george-w-bush/ Dr. Ronny Jackson Trump's Pick to Head VA Was Nicknamed 'Scrote' by George W. Bush]", April 19, 2018
""Barack Obama on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" - 5/12/06"".
(January 5, 2011). "The Crying Shame of John Boehner". Rolling Stone.
(December 3, 2018). "Washington's new power standoff - Trump, Pelosi". Times Union.
(January 15, 2014). "Chris Christie and the discipline of fear".
Woodward, Bob. (2003-04-19). "Plan of Attack". Simon & Schuster.
Bas, Dana. (February 2, 2001). "Senate Democrats welcome Bush appearance at retreat". CNN.
Adams, Cindy. (August 8, 2008). "Get A Handle On Exiting Prez". New York Post.
Mahoney, Joe. (November 11, 2007). "Former Rep. John Sweeney charged with aggravated DWI". Daily News.
(January 14, 2005). "Bush uses new nickname for senator". CNN.
Stewart, Jon (host). (February 28, 2005). "February 28, 2005 - Ben Nelson".
"Chuck Schumer's Political Future". Newyorkmetro.com.
(November 9, 2008). "Barney Frank zings Bill O'Reilly, GOP foes". BostonHerald.com.
(October 22, 2008). "hungrycoyote's Blog | Talking Points Memo | Putnam, Tudor Clash in Forum (FL-12)". Tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com.
(August 16, 2004). "Editorial: Publishing world / Maureen Dowd offers reheated morsels". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
(August 19, 2007). "Urban Legends Reference Pages: Bush on Ribs". Snopes.com.
"campaigndesk.org".
Born, Matt. (May 31, 2002). "Bush snarls as White House pack closes in". [[The Daily Telegraph]].
""Mikey" Emanuel's Embarrassing Moment".
Cornwell, Rupert. (June 16, 2006). "Bush shows his sensitive side, telling blind journalist: 'I'm interested in the shade look'". The Independent.
''The Nation'': [http://www.thenation.com/article/176236/frank-bruni-plutocrats-pundit Frank Bruni, the Plutocrats’ Pundit]. Eric Alterman, September 18, 2013.
(June 12, 2014). "Documents - The Smoking Gun".
Kirkpatrick, David D.. (February 20, 2005). "In Secretly Taped Conversations, Glimpses of the Future President". The New York Times.
Baxter, Sarah. (December 9, 2007). "Bushs cool blonde is a northern gran". The Times.
[Woodward, Bush at War, pp.53.]
[http://davidovit.com/articles/Rosen.pdf Jack Rosen, by Aly David] {{Webarchive. link. (August 20, 2016 , www.lifestylesmagazine.com, c2007)

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