DOCSLIB.ORG

George W. Bush November 6, 2003

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
George W. Bush November 6, 2003 05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd I 11/10/04 2:34:50 PM FIRST TERM ACCOMPLISHMENTS THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM • In 2003, coalition forces acted with skill and bravery to liberate the Iraqi people and remove a grave and gathering danger to America and the world. • In 2001, with less than a month’s notice, American and British forces in Afghanistan joined with local anti-Taliban troops in an assault on the al Qaeda network and the Taliban regime that gave it safe harbor in Afghanistan. • The murderous regimes of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban are history and more than 50 million people have been liberated. • In 2002, President Bush proposed and Congress approved a single, unifi ed Department of Homeland Security to improve protection against today’s threats and be fl exible enough to help meet the unknown threats of the future. By unifying over 22 agencies and offi ces, the president has improved the government’s ability to guard U.S. borders and infrastructure and patrol the skies. • Passage of the USA Patriot Act met one of the president’s goals. This law brought down the artifi cial wall separating law enforcement and intelligence offi cers and allowed them to talk to each other as they work to prevent future attacks. JOBS AND THE U.S. ECONOMY • In September 2003, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported the lowest unemployment rate (5.4%) since October 2001. • Between 2000 and 2003, productivity grew at the fastest three-year rate in more than 50 years. • The president’s tax relief allowed families to keep more of what they earn by cutting tax rates across the board. HELPING THE NEEDY • In 2003, President Bush announced the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a fi ve-year, $15-billion initiative to turn the tide in combating the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Just one month after Congress appropriated funds for the president’s plan, $350 million was awarded to service providers for critical prevention efforts and to bring life-saving treatment to suffering people in some of the hardest-hit countries in Africa and the Caribbean. EDUCATION REFORM • President Bush submitted his framework for education reform, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), three days after taking offi ce and secured overwhelming bipartisan support less than a year later. NCLB represents the most signifi cant overhaul of U.S. education policy since 1965, when the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed. MAKING HEALTH CARE MORE ACCESSIBLE • The President signed legislation that makes Health Savings Accounts available to millions of Americans. Health Savings Accounts offer fl exible, affordable insurance options for small businesses and individuals. • In December 2003, President Bush signed legislation that will make prescription drug coverage available to 40 million senior citizens and people with disabilities through the Medicare healthcare system. PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT • President Bush has committed America to meeting the challenge of long-term global climate change by reducing the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to economic output, or greenhouse gas intensity, by 18 percent by 2012 compared to 2002. • In December 2003, President Bush signed legislation implementing key provisions of his Healthy Forests Initiative. The President’s initiative is helping restore the health and vitality of forests and rangelands, and helping reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfi res. 05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd II 11/10/04 2:35:03 PM “Historians in the future will refl ect on an extraordinary, undeniable fact: Over time, free nations grow stronger and dictatorships grow weaker...Freedom honors and unleashes human creativity – and creativity determines the strength and wealth of nations. Liberty is both the plan of Heaven for humanity, and the best hope for progress here on Earth.” PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH NOVEMBER 6, 2003 1 05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 1 11/10/04 2:35:12 PM George W. Bush, the 43rd America. In President Bush’s President of the United States, words, “in our grief and anger we will be sworn into office January have found our mission and our 20, 2005, for his second term. moment.” During his campaign for re- Speaking to the nation and the election, President Bush set world during his 2004 State of the ambitious goals, including making Union address, Bush emphasized, America and the world safer “America is a nation with a with decisive action to win the mission, and that mission comes war on terror; keeping America from our most basic beliefs. We on track for a more prosperous have no desire to dominate, no future; strengthening health ambitions of empire. Our aim is Aftermath of September 11 care for millions of Americans; a democratic peace — a peace and building a better and more founded upon the dignity and “None of us would ever wish rights of every man and woman. the evil that was done on America acts in this cause with friends and allies at our side, yet September the 11th. Yet we understand our special calling: after America was attacked, This great republic will lead the it was as if our entire country cause of freedom.” looked into a mirror and saw Shortly after these attacks, our better selves. We were President Bush declared war against terror, and he has made reminded that we are citizens, victory in the war on terrorism and with obligations to each the advance of human freedom other, to our country, and to the priorities of his administration. history. We began to Already, the U.S. military and a think less of the goods we can coalition of nations have liberated accumulate, and more the people of Afghanistan from the brutal Taliban regime and about the good we can do.” denied al Qaeda its safe haven January 29, 2002 of operations. Thousands of terrorists have been captured compassionate America for all. or killed and operations have During his first term as been disrupted in many president, Bush on the domestic countries around the world. In front signed into law initiatives to the president’s words, “our nation improve America’s public schools — this generation — will lift a dark by raising academic standards, threat of violence from our people requiring teacher accountability, and our future. We will rally the and strengthening local control. He world to this cause by our efforts, signed historic tax relief measures by our courage. We will not tire, that have provided rebate checks we will not falter, and we will not and lower tax rates for everyone fail.” who pays income taxes in To the people of Iraq, President America. He increased pay and Bush committed the support of benefits for America’s military and the United States, pledging, “I will is working to save and strengthen not lose my will; that we will help the Social Security and Medicare Iraq become free and peaceful; programs. that we will stand with those who The attacks on the World want a new Iraq after Saddam Trade Center in New York City Hussein to develop, where on September 11, 2001, changed mothers and dads can raise their 2 05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 2 11/10/04 2:35:20 PM children in a peaceful world, where that governments respond to liberty — the right to serve business and shopkeepers can the will of the people, and not and honor God without fear grow their businesses, where the the will of an elite. Successful of persecution. Successful education system works well.” societies protect freedom with societies privatize their In a November 2003 speech the consistent and impartial rule economies, and secure the President Bush further described of law, instead of selectively rights of property. They prohibit his vision for change in Iraq and applying the law to punish and punish official corruption, the Middle East: political opponents. Successful and invest in the health and “There are, however, essential societies allow room for healthy education of their people. They principles common to every civic institutions — for political recognize the rights of women. successful society, in every parties and labor unions and And instead of directing hatred culture. Successful societies independent newspapers and and resentment against others, limit the power of the state and broadcast media. Successful successful societies appeal to the power of the military — so societies guarantee religious the hopes of their own people.” (Far left, bottom): President joint session of the U.S. (Above, top): President Bush George W. Bush speaks to Congress, January 20, 2004 at delivers the State of the Union rescue workers, fi refi ghters, and the Capitol in Washington, D.C. address in the Chamber of the police offi cers from the rubble of Behind the president sits Vice U.S. House of Representatives, the World Trade Center, President Richard Cheney, January 20, 2004. September 14, 2001 in left, and Speaker of (Above, bottom): President Bush is New York City. the House of Representatives seen with his cabinet in the Oval Offi ce at the White House, (Far left, top): President Bush Dennis Hastert, right. April 9, 2001. delivers the annual State of the Union address to a 3 05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 3 11/12/04 10:26:55 AM THE CALL OF PUBLIC George W. Bush was born SERVICE when his father was a student at Yale University in Connecticut. President Bush comes from a Two years later, after graduating family that has long seen politics from Yale, the elder Bush took as a worthy calling. George his wife, Barbara, and young son Bush’s paternal grandfather, to West Texas, where he began Prescott Bush, was a U. S. his career in the oil business. senator from Connecticut from Young George W.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • AN ANALYSIS of POST-COLD WAR CONCEPTS in AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY: CONTINUITY OR CHANGE? by Ana Maria Venegas a Thesis Submitted
    AN ANALYSIS OF POST-COLD WAR CONCEPTS IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY: CONTINUITY OR CHANGE? by Ana Maria Venegas A thesis submitted to Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Global Security Studies Baltimore, Maryland December 2014 © 2014 Ana Maria Venegas All Rights Reserved Abstract This thesis investigates post-Cold War concepts in US foreign policy. At the end of the Cold War, prominent political scientists and commentators argued, for various reasons, that the strategic environment was so dramatically different that the United States would no longer be able to engage the world as it had in the past. In an attempt to understand the ramifications of the evolution of the strategic environment, this thesis asked the question: Have the three post-Cold War presidents, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack H. Obama, continued to engage the world in ways consistent with previous administrations or have the broken from traditional concepts in American foreign policy? To answer this question, declaratory foreign policy as articulated in national security strategy documents and key foreign policy engagements were analyzed and compared to nine traditional concepts in American foreign policy identified by prominent historians and political scientists. The post-Cold War administrations continued to develop foreign policy consistent with the concepts identified by historians and political scientists suggesting a measure of consistency in the way the United States engages the world. Additionally, each president developed foreign policy that exhibited unique characteristics inconsistent with the traditional concepts. These policies were characterized by the importance placed on multilateral consensus; an emphasis on multilateral agreements and alliances to foster a stable international order; and the reliance on international organizations to address regional and global issues.
    [Show full text]
  • George W Bush Childhood Home Reconnaissance Survey.Pdf
    Intermountain Region National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior August 2015 GEORGE W. BUSH CHILDHOOD HOME Reconnaissance Survey Midland, Texas Front cover: President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush speak to the media after touring the President’s childhood home at 1421 West Ohio Avenue, Midland, Texas, on October 4, 2008. President Bush traveled to attend a Republican fundraiser in the town where he grew up. Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images CONTENTS BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE — i SUMMARY OF FINDINGS — iii RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY PROCESS — v NPS CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE — vii National Historic Landmark Criterion 2 – viii NPS Theme Studies on Presidential Sites – ix GEORGE W. BUSH: A CHILDHOOD IN MIDLAND — 1 SUITABILITY — 17 Childhood Homes of George W. Bush – 18 Adult Homes of George W. Bush – 24 Preliminary Determination of Suitability – 27 HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE GEORGE W. BUSH CHILDHOOD HOME, MIDLAND TEXAS — 29 Architectural Description – 29 Building History – 33 FEASABILITY AND NEED FOR NPS MANAGEMENT — 35 Preliminary Determination of Feasability – 37 Preliminary Determination of Need for NPS Management – 37 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS — 39 APPENDIX: THE 41ST AND 43RD PRESIDENTS AND FIRST LADIES OF THE UNITED STATES — 43 George H.W. Bush – 43 Barbara Pierce Bush – 44 George W. Bush – 45 Laura Welch Bush – 47 BIBLIOGRAPHY — 49 SURVEY TEAM MEMBERS — 51 George W. Bush Childhood Home Reconnaissance Survey George W. Bush’s childhood bedroom at the George W. Bush Childhood Home museum at 1421 West Ohio Avenue, Midland, Texas, 2012. The knotty-pine-paneled bedroom has been restored to appear as it did during the time that the Bush family lived in the home, from 1951 to 1955.
    [Show full text]
  • The Bush Revolution: the Remaking of America's Foreign Policy
    The Bush Revolution: The Remaking of America’s Foreign Policy Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay The Brookings Institution April 2003 George W. Bush campaigned for the presidency on the promise of a “humble” foreign policy that would avoid his predecessor’s mistake in “overcommitting our military around the world.”1 During his first seven months as president he focused his attention primarily on domestic affairs. That all changed over the succeeding twenty months. The United States waged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. U.S. troops went to Georgia, the Philippines, and Yemen to help those governments defeat terrorist groups operating on their soil. Rather than cheering American humility, people and governments around the world denounced American arrogance. Critics complained that the motto of the United States had become oderint dum metuant—Let them hate as long as they fear. September 11 explains why foreign policy became the consuming passion of Bush’s presidency. Once commercial jetliners plowed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it is unimaginable that foreign policy wouldn’t have become the overriding priority of any American president. Still, the terrorist attacks by themselves don’t explain why Bush chose to respond as he did. Few Americans and even fewer foreigners thought in the fall of 2001 that attacks organized by Islamic extremists seeking to restore the caliphate would culminate in a war to overthrow the secular tyrant Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Yet the path from the smoking ruins in New York City and Northern Virginia to the battle of Baghdad was not the case of a White House cynically manipulating a historic catastrophe to carry out a pre-planned agenda.
    [Show full text]
  • Movie Discussion Resource.Vice
    Movie discussion resource Vice (2018) Engage with culture without disengaging your faith. Genre: Drama/biopic Rating: MA15+ (for some violent images) Length: 132 minutes Starring: Christian Bale, Amy Adams,Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell Writer/Director: Adam McKay Synopsis “Vice” covers 50 years in the life of Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), beginning in his early years as a Wyoming-based electrical worker, Yale dropout, and drunken disappointment to his strong-willed and influential wife Lynne (Amy Adams). Advised to either clean up his act or lose his family, Cheney eventually finds his footing in politics, starting off as a Congressional intern in the Nixon Administration, where he is mentored by Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell) and gains an intimate understanding of the power system and how to thrive within it. After a successful political career that included earning the roles of White House Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford, 5 terms in Congress, and Secretary of Defence to George H.W. Bush, Cheney puts politics in his rearview to focus on his family and gain wealth in the role of CEO at oil behemoth Halliburton. At this point Cheney could have settled happily into retirement. When George H.W. Bush’s “black sheep” son, George W. (Sam Rockwell), decides to run for presi- dent in 2000, he asks Cheney to be his VP. Cheney sees an opportunity to transform the sym- bolic position into the most powerful role in the Oval Office. When Bush unexpectedly beats Al Gore in the 2000 election, Cheney is given carte blanche in selecting the transition team, which he populates with PNAC (see explanation below) loyalists.
    [Show full text]
  • Michael Ledeen, the Neoconservatives, and The
    Hugh B. Urban such conservative think-tanks as the American Enterprise Institute and 321.64:321.7 the Project for the New American Century, counting among their ranks politicians and militarists including Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rums- feld, and Dick Cheney, as well as such intellectuals as Irving Kristol, HUGH B. URBAN William Kristol, and (until recently) Francis Fukuyama. Despite their many ideological, cultural, and socioeconomic differences, these two factions have come together in the current White House and have found common ground in the policies of George W. Bush. Indeed, Bush represents a kind of structural link or ligament that helps tie these two, otherwise very different factions together: He embodies the MACHIAVELLI MEETS THE RELIGIOUS ideals of piety, morality, and family values that appeal to his strongest RIGHT: MICHAEL LEDEEN, THE base of popular support among evangelical Christians, while at the same time embracing the aggressive militarism and nation-building NEOCONSERVATIVES, AND THE POLITICAL agenda promoted by the Neoconservatives. The result is what David USES OF FUNDAMENTALISM Domke has called a kind of „political fundamentalism,” that is, „an in- tertwining of conservative religious faith, politics, and strategic com- munication.”5 In this essay, I will expand Domke’s notion of political funda- Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of mentalism by examining what I will call the political uses of funda- every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not mentalism6—that is, the strategic manipulation of religious beliefs, America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity ..
    [Show full text]
  • An Examination of the Way That George W Bush's Evangelical
    Thesis Title: The Bible as a ‘pretty good political handbook’: an examination of the way that George W Bush’s evangelical faith has shaped his political agenda. Author: Christine Winter Supervisor: Professor Gary Trompf Year: Honours Department of Studies in Religion School of English, Art History, Film and Media Faculty of Arts 2004 1 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER 1 6 CHAPTER 2 26 CHAPTER 3 42 CONCLUSION 59 BIBLIOGRAPHY 63 2 Introduction The purpose of this thesis is to examine the very public religiosity of the current President of the United States of America, George W Bush, and to determine if his personal religious views have shaped his political choices.1 In order to achieve this, it is first necessary to define the methodology that will be used to determine if religious influence is present and this will be defined with reference to the religious character, political aims and public faces of the American evangelical movement. To this end, the first chapter will give a brief history of evangelical Christianity, focusing on its defining characteristics, political efforts and the major players in the movement and thus will identify the main political concerns of this group since the 1970s. Chapter Two will present a brief biography of Bush, concentrating on his religious background, public demonstrations of his religious beliefs, encounters with the political muscle of the Religious Right and his stances on the issues identified as concerns of evangelical Christians. This will be performed in order to demonstrate Bush’s identification with evangelical Christianity, the importance of religion to him and his experience dealing with the Religious Right in the field of politics up until the end of his second term as Governor of Texas.
    [Show full text]
  • How Sports Help to Elect Presidents, Run Campaigns and Promote Wars."
    Abstract: Daniel Matamala In this thesis for his Master of Arts in Journalism from Columbia University, Chilean journalist Daniel Matamala explores the relationship between sports and politics, looking at what voters' favorite sports can tell us about their political leanings and how "POWER GAMES: How this can be and is used to great eect in election campaigns. He nds that -unlike soccer in Europe or Latin America which cuts across all social barriers- sports in the sports help to elect United States can be divided into "red" and "blue". During wartime or when a nation is under attack, sports can also be a powerful weapon Presidents, run campaigns for fuelling the patriotism that binds a nation together. And it can change the course of history. and promote wars." In a key part of his thesis, Matamala describes how a small investment in a struggling baseball team helped propel George W. Bush -then also with a struggling career- to the presidency of the United States. Politics and sports are, in other words, closely entwined, and often very powerfully so. Submitted in partial fulllment of the degree of Master of Arts in Journalism Copyright Daniel Matamala, 2012 DANIEL MATAMALA "POWER GAMES: How sports help to elect Presidents, run campaigns and promote wars." Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts in Journalism Copyright Daniel Matamala, 2012 Published by Columbia Global Centers | Latin America (Santiago) Santiago de Chile, August 2014 POWER GAMES: HOW SPORTS HELP TO ELECT PRESIDENTS, RUN CAMPAIGNS AND PROMOTE WARS INDEX INTRODUCTION. PLAYING POLITICS 3 CHAPTER 1.
    [Show full text]
  • Presidential Documents
    Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, December 22, 2008 Volume 44—Number 50 Pages 1519–1576 VerDate Aug 31 2005 13:40 Dec 23, 2008 Jkt 217250 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 E:\PRESDOCS\P50DEF4.019 P50DEF4 dwashington3 on PROD1PC60 with PRESDOCSF Contents Addresses and Remarks Executive Orders See also Meetings With Foreign Leaders Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay—1567 Afghanistan, military personnel at Bagram Air Base—1531 Interviews With the News Media American auto industry—1568 Exchange with reporters in Baghdad, Iraq— American Enterprise Institute and a question- 1520 and-answer session—1547 Interviews Hanukkah menorah, lighting—1537 Steve Scully of C–SPAN—1560 Iraq Military personnel at Camp Victory in White House press pool—1525 Baghdad—1523 News conference with President Karzai of Strategic framework agreement and status Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, of forces agreement, signing ceremony in December 15—1534 Baghdad—1520 Meetings With Foreign Leaders Pennsylvania, U.S. Army War College in Carlisle—1542 Afghanistan, President Karzai—1534 President George W. Bush and First Lady El Salvador, President Saca—1538 Laura Bush, unveiling official portraits— Iraq 1570 Prime Minister Maliki—1520 Radio address—1519 President Talabani—1520 U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, reception Palestinian Authority, President Abbas—1571 honoring—1546 Proclamations Communications to Congress To Take Certain Actions Under the African Kosovo and Azerbaijan, letter extending Growth and Opportunity Act and the Generalized System of
    [Show full text]
  • THE REDEMPTION Everything Went Wrong for George W
    The New Yorker THE REDEMPTION Everything went wrong for George W. Bush, until he made it all go right. By Nicholas Lemann January 2000 “It’s quite fascinating,” said Joe. “This big honor, the biggest in the world, can happen to a man almost overnight. What was Coolidge when he was nominated for the vice-presidency? He’d been governor of Massachusetts and settled the police strike. What was Harding? Well, Harding isn’t a good example, because he’d not only been governor of his state but United States senator as well. But look at the other side, the Democrats. Wilson, a governor and a college president. Cox? Nobody. Franklin Roosevelt, the fellow that ran for vice-president, I used to know him slightly. At least I met him at dances when I was in college. A typical New York snob, I always thought.” --John O’Hara, “Ten North Frederick.” I met George W. Bush once by accident back in the early seventies, at Harvard. I must have been a freshman or a sophomore. Some home-town friends of mine from New Orleans, Grant and Margot Thomas, were in Cambridge for a few years because Grant was getting a master’s degree, and I used to drop by their apartment all the time. To me, it was a warm island of Southern gaiety in a sour sea of ambition and after-the-revolution ill will. Life had a light and charming cast there. The Thomases had a dog named Layla, and their neighbors, who were the authors of the Curious George books, would appear occasionally to deliver fond mock-chastisings in a Mittel-europa accent.
    [Show full text]
  • GEORGE W. BUSH Recent Titles in Greenwood Biographies Halle Berry: a Biography Melissa Ewey Johnson Osama Bin Laden: a Biography Thomas R
    GEORGE W. BUSH Recent Titles in Greenwood Biographies Halle Berry: A Biography Melissa Ewey Johnson Osama bin Laden: A Biography Thomas R. Mockaitis Tyra Banks: A Biography Carole Jacobs Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography Eric Fretz Howard Stern: A Biography Rich Mintzer Tiger Woods: A Biography, Second Edition Lawrence J. Londino Justin Timberlake: A Biography Kimberly Dillon Summers Walt Disney: A Biography Louise Krasniewicz Chief Joseph: A Biography Vanessa Gunther John Lennon: A Biography Jacqueline Edmondson Carrie Underwood: A Biography Vernell Hackett Christina Aguilera: A Biography Mary Anne Donovan Paul Newman: A Biography Marian Edelman Borden GEORGE W. BUSH A Biography Clarke Rountree GREENWOOD BIOGRAPHIES Copyright 2011 by ABC-CLIO, LLC All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rountree, Clarke, 1958– George W. Bush : a biography / Clarke Rountree. p. cm. — (Greenwood biographies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-313-38500-1 (hard copy : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-313-38501-8 (ebook) 1. Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946– 2. United States— Politics and government—2001–2009. 3. Presidents—United States— Biography. I. Title. E903.R68 2010 973.931092—dc22 [B] 2010032025 ISBN: 978-0-313-38500-1 EISBN: 978-0-313-38501-8 15 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5 This book is also available on the World Wide Web as an eBook.
    [Show full text]
  • Public Commentary 1-31-17
    Stanley Renshon Public Affairs/Commentary-February 2017 I: Commentary Pieces/Op Ed Pieces 33. “Will Mexico Pay for Trump’s Wall?” [on-line debate, John S. Kierman ed], February 16, 2017. https://wallethub.com/blog/will-mexico-pay-for-the- wall/32590/#stanley-renshon 32. “Psychoanalyst to Trump: Grow up and adapt,” USA TODAY, June 23, 2106. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/06/23/trump-psychoanalyst- grow-up-adapt-column/86181242/ 31. “9/11: What would Trump Do?,” Politico Magazine, March 31, 2016. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-2016-terrorist- attack-foreign-policy-213784 30. “You don't know Trump as well as you think,” USA TODAY, March 25, 2106. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/25/donald-trump-narcissist- business-leadership-respect-column/82209524/ 29. “Some presidents aspire to be great, more aspire to do well’ essay for “The Big Idea- Diagnosing the Urge to Run for Office,” Politico Magazine, November/December 2015. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/2016-candidates-mental- health-213274?paginate=false 28. “Obama’s Place in History: Great, Good, Average, Mediocre or Poor?,” Washington Post, February 24, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/02/24/obamas- place-in-history-great-good-average-mediocre-or-poor/ 27. President Romney or President Obama: A Tale of Two Ambitions, Montreal Review, October 2012. http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/President-Romney-or-President- Obama-A-Tale-of-Two-Ambitions.php 26. America Principio, Por Favor, Arizona Daily Star, July 1, 2012. http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/guest-column-practice-inhibits-forming-full- attachments-to-us/article_10009d68-0fcc-5f4a-8d38-2f5e95a7e138.html 25.
    [Show full text]
  • 2009 Inaugural Media Guide
    The 56th Presidential Inauguration Inaugural media guide Produced by the joint congressional committee on inaugural ceremonies January 2009 Table of Contents About the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) JCCIC Members Media Timeline 2009 Inaugural Ceremonies Processions to the Platform Inaugural Program Musical Selections Bios Aretha Franklin Yo-Yo Ma Anthony McGill Gabriela Montero Itzhak Perlman John Williams Elizabeth Alexander Pastor Rick Warren The Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery San Francisco Boys Chorus (SFBC) San Francisco Girls Chorus (SFGC) The United States Army Herald Trumpets The United States Marine Band The United States Navy Band "Sea Chanters‖ Lincoln Bible President’s Room Inaugural Luncheon Program Menu Recipes Painting Inaugural Gifts Smithsonian Chamber Players History of Statuary Hall Event Site Map Images of Tickets Biographies President George W. Bush President – elect Barack Obama Vice President Dick Cheney Vice President - elect Joe Biden Mrs. Laura Bush Mrs. Michelle Obama Mrs. Lynne Cheney Dr. Jill Biden Justices of the Supreme Court U.S. Capitol History and Facts Inaugural History Morning Worship Service Procession to the Capitol Vice President’s Swearing–In Ceremony Presidential Swearing-In Ceremony Inaugural Address Inaugural Luncheon Inaugural Parade Inaugural Ball Inaugural Facts and Firsts AFIC (armed forces inaugural committee) AFIC History & Fact Sheet Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) plans and executes all Inaugural activities at the United States Capitol, including the Inaugural swearing-in ceremony of the President and Vice President of the United States and the traditional Inaugural luncheon that follows.
    [Show full text]