[480] Bush's administration presided over the largest tax cuts since the presidency of Ronald Reagan,[481] and his homeland security reforms proved to be the most significant expansion of the federal government since the Great Society.[482]
Bush has been widely portrayed in film and television, both during and since his presidency.[483][484][485] He has had various nicknames, including "Dubya", "GWB" and "Shrub".[486][487][488]

Reception
The George W. Bush presidency has been ranked as below-average in surveys of presidential scholars published in the late 2000s and 2010s.[489][490][491]
A 2010 Siena Research Institute survey of the opinions of historians, political scientists, and presidential scholars ranked him 39th out of 43 presidents. The survey respondents gave President Bush low ratings on his handling of the U.S. economy, communication, ability to compromise, foreign policy accomplishments, and intelligence.[492] Bush said in 2013, "Ultimately history will judge the decisions I made, and I won't be around because it will take time for the objective historians to show up. So I am pretty comfortable with it. I did what I did."[493] C-SPAN's 2021 survey of historians ranked Bush as the 29th-best president; Bush had initially been ranked the 36th in 2009.