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

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. spent much 1952 to 1963. His father, George of his childhood in Midland, Herbert Walker Bush, began his Texas, and still thinks of it as his career in electoral politics in hometown. 1966, when voters in Houston, “Midland was a small town, with small-town values,” he On Being President Texas, sent him to the House of Representatives. The senior says in A Charge to Keep. “We George Bush was vice president learned to respect our elders, “The job of the President is to understand the proper relationship between the government and the strength of the country. And the job of the President is to call upon that strength and rally that strength and encourage that strength to help save Amer- ica one heart, one soul, one conscience at a time.” May 3, 2004

(Right): George W. Bush, under Ronald Reagan from 1981 to do what they said, and to center, poses with his father George Bush and to 1989 and president of the be good neighbors. We went mother Barbara Bush in Rye, New York, during the United States from 1989 to 1993. to church. Families spent time summer of 1955. George The president’s younger brother, together, outside, the grown-ups W. Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Jeb Bush, is governor of the talking with neighbors while the Connecticut. state of Florida. kids played ball or with marbles “My grandfather Prescott and yo-yos. Our homework and Bush believed a person’s schoolwork were important. The most enduring and important town’s leading citizens worked contribution was hearing and hard to attract the best teachers responding to the call of public to our schools. No one locked service,” says President Bush their doors, because you could in his autobiography, A Charge trust your friends and neighbors. to Keep. “Money and material It was a happy childhood. I was things were not the measure of a life in the long run, he felt, and if you had them, they came with a price tag: the obligation to serve.”

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 4 11/12/04 10:19:36 AM surrounded by love and friends EDUCATIONAL YEARS I was introduced to rugby, and and sports.” I worked my way onto the first Young George was joined by In the fall of 1961, George team for my senior year.” a sister, Robin, in December Bush’s parents sent him to Bush graduated from Yale in 1949; the Bushes’ third child, Phillips Academy in Andover, May of 1968 with a major in John (called “Jeb”), was born in Massachusetts, one of the history, then served as an F-102 February 1953. Only a few weeks country’s most prestigious fighter pilot in the Texas Air after Jeb’s birth, blood tests college preparatory schools and National Guard. showed that Robin had leukemia, his father’s alma mater. “Andover a disease that is often curable taught me how to think,” Bush now but about which little was has said. “I learned to read and known back then. Robin died write in a way I never had before. that October at the age of three. And I discovered a new interest, His sister’s death was a one that has stayed with me devastating experience for throughout my adult life. It was young George W. “I was sad, and sparked by a great teacher, Tom stunned,” he says in A Charge to Keep. “I knew Robin had been sick, but death was hard for me to imagine. Minutes before, I had had a little sister, and now, suddenly, I did not. Forty-six years later, those minutes remain the starkest memory of my childhood, a sharp pain in the midst of an otherwise happy blur.” Three more children were born to the Bushes in West Texas — Neil in 1955, Marvin in 1956, and Dorothy in 1959. Soon after Dorothy was born, her father moved the family to Houston, in the southeastern corner of the state, where he took over (Above): George W. Bush Lyons, who taught history. He seated in the cockpit of an operations of an offshore oil- had a passion for the subject and F-102 ﬁ ghter. drilling company he had helped an ability to communicate his to found. George W. had just love and interest to his students. finished the seventh grade at San He taught me that history brings Jacinto Junior High in Midland the past and its lessons to life, and had been elected class and those lessons can often help president for the following year. predict the future.” His family’s move meant he had After graduating from Andover to leave this familiar school for a in 1964, Bush went on to Yale private academy, Kinkaid School, University. He was elected in a Houston suburb. president of his fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and continued to pursue his love for sports. Baseball remained his favorite, but, he says, “my talent never matched my enthusiasm; I was a mediocre pitcher on the Yale freshman team. In my junior year,

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 5 11/10/04 2:35:38 PM NEW WORLDS: POLITICS, to help lift these kids out of their POVERTY, AND THE terrible circumstances.” OIL BUSINESS In the fall of 1973, Bush enrolled in Harvard Business During this period, George W. School in Cambridge, Bush worked for a former partner Massachusetts. “Harvard was of his father’s, who had left the a great turning point for him,” oil-drilling business to start an his mother, Barbara Bush, told agricultural company in Houston the Washington Post. “I think that had interests ranging from he learned ... what is that word? cattle and chickens to tropical Structure.” plants. His job was to travel After receiving his Master around the United States and of Business Administration to countries in Central America degree in 1975, Bush decided Global Vision looking for plant nurseries his to go back to Midland to try company might want to acquire. his hand at the oil business. “The American ﬂ ag stands In the spring of 1972, he He started out as a “landman” went to Alabama to work on — a small-businessman who for more than our power and the unsuccessful U.S. Senate researches the mineral rights our interests. Our founders campaign of Republican Winton to pieces of property and then dedicated this country to the Blount. Returning to Houston, seeks to negotiate leases for cause of human dignity, the he became a counselor for the promising oil properties. rights of every person, and the African-American youngsters Before long, he began trading in a program called PULL mineral and royalty interests and possibilities of every life. This (Professional United Leadership investing in drilling projects. conviction leads us into the League). The program brought In the summer of 1977, at a world to help the afﬂ icted, and together volunteers from the dinner at the home of friends in defend the peace, and confound athletic, entertainment, and Midland, he met Laura Welch, the designs of evil men.” business worlds to work with the woman who three months young people in a variety of later would become his wife. She January 28, 2003 ways. George taught basketball had been born in Midland and and wrestling and organized field had earned a bachelor’s degree trips to juvenile prisons, so his in education from Southern young charges could see that Methodist University in Dallas side of life and resolve not to and a master’s degree in library end up there themselves. science from the University His work with Project PULL, of Texas at Austin. She was Bush says in A Charge to Keep, working as the librarian at an gave him “a glimpse of a world elementary school in Austin I had never seen. It was tragic, when she met George W. Bush. heartbreaking, and uplifting, all Bush had already decided to at the same time. I saw a lot of run for Congress, for the seat poverty. I also saw bad choices: being vacated by a Democrat drugs, alcohol abuse, men who who was retiring from the House had fathered children and walked of Representatives after serving away, leaving single mothers for 43 years. After the wedding, struggling to raise children on therefore, the couple postponed their own. I saw children who their honeymoon in order to could not read and were way start campaigning, traveling behind in school. I also saw good all over the large West Texas and decent people working to try congressional district. Bush won

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 6 11/10/04 2:35:41 PM the Republican nomination but RUNNING A BASEBALL TEAM lost the race. He was pleased, AND BECOMING GOVERNOR however, by the fact that, in a district that had never elected a After his father was elected to Republican, he had received 47 the presidency in 1988, George percent of the vote. W. moved to Dallas, Texas, “Defeat humbles you,” Bush with the intention of opening says in A Charge to Keep. “You a business there. However, work, you dream, you hope the news that the Texas Rangers people see it your way, then professional baseball team suddenly it’s over and they was for sale changed his plans. did not. It’s hard not to take a Here was a chance to act on political loss personally; after his lifelong love for baseball. He all, it’s your own name spelled assembled a group of wealthy out there on the ballot. Yet if A More Prosperous Future investors who bought the team you believe in the wisdom of for about $75 million. Bush the voters, as I do, you get over “One of my most important the disappointment, accept the jobs is to help create an verdict, and move on.” Moving on, for the future environment in which the president, meant going back entrepreneurial spirit to the oil business in Midland. fl ourishes, because I believe He formed a company called that the fact that America is Arbusto (Spanish for “bush”) a haven for the entrepreneur Energy, later changed to Bush Exploration, but things did not is one of the real strengths go well. Oil prices began falling of our country. I know that in the early 1980s, making it when the entrepreneur feels difficult for the new company to confi dent, when the small operate. In 1984, Bush decided to business owner invests, it’s merge his company with another small exploration firm and more likely people will be able became president of the new to fi nd a job.” company, called Spectrum 7. In (Above): George W. Bush talks to reporters at Arlington July 2, 2004 Stadium in Texas on April 18, 1989, after baseball league 1986, a larger company, Harken team owners approved the sale of the Texas Rangers. Energy Corporation, bought the himself used the money he had small company. received when his oil business Bush worked for a while as was sold to buy a small share. a consultant to Harken, but He and another investor named then began helping with his Edward “Rusty” Rose were father’s presidential campaign, asked to handle the day-to- as an adviser and speechwriter. day management of the team, During this period, in 1981, twin and Bush soon became the daughters, Barbara and Jenna, franchise’s general managing had been born to George W. and partner. Laura Bush. “Rusty didn’t like to give speeches or talk with the media,” Bush says in A Charge to Keep, “so I became the face and voice for the management of the Texas Rangers. I worked hard to sell tickets. I traveled the Rangers’

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 7 11/10/04 2:35:41 PM market, which encompasses a first priority and most urgent lowered the age at which violent huge part of Texas, speaking to challenge. If a state doesn’t juveniles can be tried as adults, civic groups and chambers of educate children, if the federal and required automatic jail time commerce.” government doesn’t defend for juveniles who carry firearms In the process, George W. America from foreign threat, illegally or commit crimes with a Bush became a prominent figure whatever important issue comes gun. Welfare rolls were reduced in Texas in his own right, far next seems a very distant by requiring work and limiting more than the son of the man second.” how long people can stay on who happened to be president. In November 1994, Bush welfare. And legal reforms were In 1993, after his father had was elected governor with enacted to reduce what Governor been defeated in his bid for 53.5 percent of the vote. Bush called “frivolous lawsuits.” re-election to the presidency, Most observers agree that As soon as he was elected, George W. decided to try again his first year in office was a Bush had put his interest in the to run for office — this time for very successful one. The new Texas Rangers baseball team into a trust and given up his managerial responsibilities. (The team was later sold to a Dallas businessman.) On November 3, 1998, George W. Bush became the first governor in Texas history to be elected to consecutive four-year terms when he was re- elected with 68.6 percent of the vote. Soon after that, he began thinking about the possibility of running for president of the United States. (continued on page 12)

(Left): With the State Capitol in the background, Texas Governor George W. Bush and his wife Laura ride in the inaugural parade, January 19, 1999, in Austin, Texas. Governor Bush had been sworn in for his second term of ofﬁ ce earlier in the day.

governor of Texas. He challenged governor worked well with the the incumbent, Democrat Ann Democrats who controlled both Richards, running on promises houses of the Texas legislature — to improve public education and and managed to get bills passed to reform the juvenile justice that dealt with the issues he had system, welfare, and the state’s emphasized in his campaign. tort laws — the system under As governor, Bush advocated which an injured person may sue and signed the two largest tax for damages. cuts in Texas history, totaling “All four are important,” he has over $3 billion. During his time said, “but education is closest in office, legislation emphasized to my heart. As I said in speech local control of schools, raised after speech, education is for a standards, and rewrote the state what national defense is state’s curriculum to insist on for the federal government, the academic basics. Other laws passed while Bush was governor effectively abolished parole for violent adult offenders in Texas,

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 8 11/10/04 2:35:44 PM FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH professionals, and retired mem- tion efforts across the country bers of the military to become and encourages Americans to Laura Bush is dedicated to teachers. Mrs. Bush also hosted get involved in preserving main advancing education in America a White House Conference on streets, parks, and community and supports the president’s Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers. treasures. work to ensure that no child is As Honorary Ambassador Mrs. Bush also replanted na- left behind in school or in life. for the Decade of Literacy of tive grasses at the family’s ranch She created a national initiative, the United Nations Educational, in Crawford to preserve the Ready to Read, Ready to Learn, Scientific and Cultural Organi- beautiful Texas landscape. to inform parents and policy zation (UNESCO), Laura Bush Laura Bush was born on No- makers about early childhood leads America’s efforts to bring vember 4, 1946, in Midland, Tex- education and the importance education to people worldwide, as, to Harold and Jenna Welch. of reading aloud to and with especially to women and girls. Inspired by her second-grade children from their earliest days. She is a strong advocate for teacher, she earned a Bachelor equal rights for all women. Mrs. Bush is the only first lady in history to record a full presidential radio address, speaking out on the plight of women and children living under the Taliban. She is leading an effort to build a teacher-training institute for women in Afghanistan. In honor of her of Science degree in education mother, a breast cancer survivor, from Southern Methodist Uni- Mrs. Bush supports education versity in 1968. She then taught campaigns for breast cancer in public schools in Dallas and and heart disease. She partners Houston. In 1973 she earned a with the National Heart, Lung, Master of Library Science degree and Blood Institute to share the from the University of Texas at She helped to develop a series Heart Truth, which is that heart Austin and worked as a public of magazines called “Healthy disease is the leading cause of school librarian in Austin. In 1977 Start, Grow Smart,” to provide death among women in America. she met and married George parents with information about Mrs. Bush educates women Walker Bush. They are the par- their infant’s cognitive develop- about their risks and stresses ents of twin daughters, Barbara ment and health. the importance of healthy eating, and Jenna, who are named for A vital part of early childhood exercise, and preventive screen- their grandmothers. Q education is teaching children ings. A hiking and camping (Above left): First Lady Laura Bush answers questions to read and to love books. Mrs. about the No Child Left Behind Act as she stands in Bush strongly supports the enthusiast, Laura Bush enjoys the library at Reginald F. Chavez Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 20, 2004. president’s goal to ensure that the great outdoors. She helped to start Preserve America, a (Above): First Lady Laura Bush meets with women from all children learn to read by the Afghanistan at the White House, November 27, 2001. third grade. To succeed in school, national preservation initiative to The women were in Washington to meet with senior U.S. protect our cultural and natural offi cials, participate in a Georgetown University public children also need excellent forum, and receive training. Many of them are refugees teachers. Mrs. Bush works with heritage. She highlights preserva- who fl ed the Taliban. The fi rst lady spoke to them about human rights issues. teacher recruitment programs like Teach For America, the New Teacher Project, and Troops-to- Teachers to encourage students,

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 9 11/10/04 2:35:49 PM GLOBAL PARTNERS Middle East We see a continent at peace, where the people of Africa obtain “We believe that freedom can education and medical care, and advance and change lives in the live in freedom...Yet fulfi lling greater Middle East, as it has this vision is the work of many advanced and changed lives in years. It will require hard effort Asia, and Latin America, and and true leadership and a Eastern Europe, and Africa. We rejection of some old ways. And believe it is a tragedy of history in this great work, you will (Above): President Bush speaks to U.S. Army Corporal James Rednour of Fort Campbell, that in the Middle East – which always have a partner in the Kentucky after presenting him with the Purple Heart award for wounds gave the world great gifts of law United States.” that Rednour sustained and science and faith – so many January 15, 2003 while serving in Iraq. (Right): President Bush have been held back by lawless Asia shakes hands with U.S. soldiers during a tyranny and fanaticism. visit at the U.S. We believe that when all Middle “The people of Tokyo, Seoul, military base Camp Bondsteel, Eastern peoples are fi nally al- and Beijing touched all our 40 kilometers southeast of lowed to live and think and work hearts in the days after Septem- Kosovo’s capital, and worship as free men and ber 11 with moving displays of Pristina, July 24, 2001. women, they will reclaim the sympathy and support in the greatness of their own heritage.” wake of the terrorist attacks. May 24, 2004 Today, all three nations are supporting our fi ght against Europe terrorism.” February 16, 2002 “Romania has made a historic journey. Instead of hatred, you Latin America have chosen tolerance. Instead of destructive rivalry with your “El Salvador is one of the really neighbors, you have chosen great stories of economic and reconciliation. Instead of state political transformation of our control, you have chosen free time. Just over a decade ago, markets and rule of law. And this country was in civil war. instead of dictatorship, you For millions of Salvadorans, have built a proud and work- violence was a daily reality, and ing democracy...I’m honored to prosperity was just a distant carry a message to the people of dream. Today, El Salvador Romania: We proudly invite you is at peace. The country has to join NATO, the great alliance renewed its commitment to of freedom.” democracy and economic reform November 23, 2002 and trade. It is one of the freest Africa and strongest and most stable countries in our hemisphere. President Bush, right, meets with “All of us share a common The United States considers Chinese President Hu Jintao, vision for the future of Africa. El Salvador a close friend and left, in the Oval Offi ce of the White House, May 1, 2002. We look to the day when strong ally.” prosperity for Africa is built March 24, 2002 through trade and markets.

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 10 11/10/04 2:35:54 PM President Bush shakes hands with Pope John Paul II during their meeting at the Vatican, May 28, 2002.

(Above, top): President George W. Bush greets Lithuanians at Rotuse Square (Above, top): President Bush speaks at President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush the TASO AIDS Counseling Center in Entebbe, walk with President of Senegal Abdoulaye in the center of Vilnius, Lithuania, November 23, 2002. Uganda, July 11, 2003. The president outlined Wade, as they arrive in Dakar, Senegal, his $15-billion AIDS program. July 8, 2003. In meetings with African (Above, bottom): President George W. Bush leaders, the president focused on talks with King Abdullah of Jordan (left) and (Above, bottom): President Bush and UN ﬁ ghting poverty and disease while promoting then-President Pastrana of Colombia Secretary General Koﬁ Annan walk democracy on the continent. during the United Nations conference in with Secretary of State Colin Powell at Monterrey, Mexico, March 22, 2002. the White House. 11

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 11 11/10/04 2:36:08 PM ROAD TO THE PRESIDENCY presidency was strengthening (continued from page 8) homeland security and With re-election as governor protecting the American people. behind him, “the pressure to Other major goals included make a decision about seeking growing America’s economy; the presidency began mounting,” encouraging Americans to Bush has said. “I wrestled with the decision. I was worried Speaking to the 2004 about my family, worried Republican Party Convention about exposing them to an environment that I know better than most. I know what it feels “This young century will like to have someone you love torn up on the national stage, be liberty’s century. By and I worried about putting promoting liberty abroad, we my girls and my wife through will build a safer world. By that difficult process. On the encouraging liberty at home, other hand, I worried about my we will build a more hopeful country, about an increasing drift that I felt threatened America’s America. Like generations promise of opportunity for all at before us, we have a calling home and America’s place as the from beyond the stars to keeper of freedom in the world.” stand for freedom. This is the He did decide to run in the everlasting dream of America Republican primary elections and received his party’s nomination in — and tonight, in this place, August 2000. that dream is renewed. Now After a campaign we go forward — grateful for in which he outlined our freedom, faithful to our sweeping proposals to cause, and conﬁ dent in the reform America’s public schools, transform future of the greatest nation the nation’s national on Earth.” defense, provide tax September 2, 2004 relief, modernize Social Security and Medicare, and encourage faith- based and community organizations to work with government to help Americans in need. In work together to improve their the November 2000 presidential communities and touch the lives election, Bush defeated the of their neighbors; improving Democratic candidate, Al Gore, health care for all Americans; who had been vice president ensuring that no American child under Bill Clinton for eight years. is left behind by the education Building on the priorities of system; and preserving the his first term, President Bush looked to the future in his 2004 (Above, top): President campaign for re-election by Bush smiles and waves as a crowd at the Farm Progress reminding Americans that the Show applauds his remarks most fundamental goal of his during a campaign stop in Alleman, Iowa.

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 12 11/10/04 2:36:23 PM beauty and quality of America’s Bush recognized the nation’s integrity; the institutions that environment while encouraging endurance through unsettled give us direction and purpose responsible stewardship of the times and the enduring — our families, our schools, our nation’s vast natural resources. institutions that would guide it religious congregations.” Speaking in the midst of forward, saying, “In this time of In the November 2004 the 2004 campaign, President change, there are some things presidential election, Bush [that] won’t change: our belief defeated Democratic candidate, in liberty and opportunity, John Kerry, a U.S. senator from and in the non-negotiable Massachusetts. Q demands of human dignity; the individual values we try to live by, courage and compassion, reverence and

(Above, left): President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush join the Cheneys in acknowledging delegates at the 2004 Republican Party Convention in New York City, September 2004. (Above and above right): Delegates to the 2004 Republican Party Convention show their enthusiasm.

(Above): President Bush reaches out to greet supporters following a campaign rally at the Grand Traverse County Civic Center, in Traverse City, Michigan.

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 13 11/10/04 2:36:31 PM VICE PRESIDENT Lincoln, Nebraska, on January RICHARD B. CHENEY 30, 1941, and grew up in Casper, Wyoming. He earned his Bach- Vice President Richard B. Cheney elor and Master of Arts degrees has had a distinguished career from the University of Wyoming. as a businessman and public ser- His career in public service vant, serving four presidents and began in 1969 when he joined as an elected official. Throughout the Nixon Administration, serving his career, Mr. Cheney served in a number of positions at the with duty, honor, and unwaver- Cost of Living Council, at ing leadership, gaining him the the Office of Economic respect of the American people Opportunity, and within the during trying times. White House. Mr. Cheney was born in When Gerald Ford assumed

“President Bush and I are grateful for the privilege we’ve been given. And [we] pledge to use it wisely in service to the ideals we share and to the country we love.” February 15, 2001

Vice President Cheney, left, and U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney, second from right, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Britain’s Prime Minister Tony smiles with two young well-wishers: 10-year-old Lu Chi, Koizumi shake hands prior to their Blair says goodbye to Vice red shirt, and 11-year-old Shi Hao, left. Shanghai Vice- meeting at the prime minister’s President Cheney on the steps Mayor Jiang Sixian, far right, looks on upon Cheney’s arrival ofﬁ cial residence in Tokyo, of 10 Downing Street, March at Hong Qiao Airport in China’s ﬁ nancial capital of Shanghai, April 12, 2004. 11, 2002. Cheney stopped in April 14, 2004. At second left is Cheney’s wife Lynne. London to confer with Blair before a 10-day visit to the Middle East. 14

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 14 11/10/04 2:36:38 PM the presidency in August 1974, the U.S. House of Representa- LYNNE CHENEY Mr. Cheney served on the transi- tives. He was re-elected five tion team and later as deputy times and elected by his col- Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice Presi- assistant to the president. In leagues to serve as chairman of dent Richard Cheney, has loved November 1975, he was named the Republican Policy Commit- history for as long as she can assistant to the president and tee from 1981 to 1987. He was remember, and she has spent White House chief of staff, a elected chairman of the House much of her professional life position he held throughout the Republican Conference in 1987 writing and speaking about the remainder of the Ford Adminis- and elected House minority whip importance of knowing history tration. in 1988. During his tenure in and teaching it well. After he returned to his home the House, Mr. Cheney earned Two of Mrs. Cheney’s works state of Wyoming in 1977, Mr. a reputation as a man of knowl- are books on American history Cheney was elected to serve as edge, character, and accessibility. for children. The first, America: the state’s sole congressman in For his leadership in the first A Patriotic Primer, released in Gulf War as secretary of defense, May 2002, is an alphabet book he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Mr. Cheney married his high school sweetheart, Lynne Ann Vincent, in 1964, and they have grown daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, and three granddaughters. Q

for children of all ages and their families that celebrates the ideas and ideals which are the founda- tions of our country. Her second children’s book, A Is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, published September 16, 2003, tells the story of women’s con- tributions to American history. Mrs. Cheney’s net proceeds from both best-selling books are being donated to charity. Mrs. Cheney earned her Bach- elor of Arts degree with highest Vice President Cheney watches as his wife Lynne Cheney honors from Colorado College, demonstrates how to fold the U.S. ﬂ ag properly with help her Master of Arts from the from Jonathon Underland, 11, University of Colorado, and her from Hatﬁ eld, New Jersey, at the Smithsonian Institute’s Ph.D. with a specialization in 19th National Museum of American century British literature from History, June 9, 2002, in Washington, D.C. the University of Wisconsin. She is the recipient of awards and honorary degrees from numerous Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State colleges and universities. Q Colin Powell walk together following a Rose Garden press conference with Vice President Cheney praises Arkansas President Bush, National Guard troops on peacekeeping July 29, 2003. duty in el-Sheikh, Egypt, March 13, 2002, during his Middle East visit.

05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 15 11/10/04 2:36:48 PM PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS* The 20th amendment to the U.S. Constitution specifi es that the term of each elected Presi- March 4, 1917, and March 5, 1917—Woodrow Wilson: First time that women participated dent of the United States begins at noon on January 20 of the year following the election. in the inaugural parade. Each President must take the oath of offi ce before assuming the duties of the position. March 4, 1921—Warren G. Harding: First President to ride to and from his inaugural in an With the 2005 inauguration of George W. Bush, the oath has been taken 69 different times automobile; fi rst use of loudspeakers at an inaugural. by the 43 Presidents of the United States. This numerical discrepancy results chiefl y from two factors: a President must take the oath at the beginning of each term of offi ce, and, be- March 4, 1925—Calvin Coolidge: First inaugural to be broadcast nationwide by radio. cause Inauguration Day has sometimes fallen on a Sunday, four Presidents (Hayes [1877], Wilson [1917], Eisenhower [1957], and Reagan [1985]) have taken the oath privately before January 10, 1945—Franklin D. Roosevelt: First and only time a President was inaugurated the public inaugural ceremonies. In addition, President Arthur took the oath privately fol- for a fourth term. (The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, ratifi ed in 1951, restricts the lowing the death of President Garfi eld and again two days later in the Capitol. presidency to two terms.)

The 69 oaths administered to date have been taken in a wide variety of locations: January 20, 1949—Harry S. Truman: First inauguration to be televised.

✩ U.S. Capitol—53 occasions January 20, 1961—John F. Kennedy: First President to be inaugurated on the extended East Front; last President to wear traditional stovepipe hat to the inauguration. ✩ White House—6 occasions November 22, 1963—Lyndon B. Johnson: First time that the oath was administered in an ✩ Old Brick Capitol (site of present Supreme Court Building)—1 occasion airplane (Air Force One, a Boeing 707, at Love Field in Dallas, Texas).

✩ Washington, D.C. (not in Capitol or White House) August 4, 1974—Gerald R. Ford: First unelected Vice President —2 occasions to assume the presidency: fi rst Vice President to assume the presidency under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the ✩ Outside Washington, D.C.—7 occasions Constitution, which specifi es that, upon the resignation of the President, the Vice President shall become President. THE OATH OF OFFICE January 20, 1977—Jimmy Carter: First President to walk all the Each President recites the following oath, in accordance with way from the Capitol to the White House with his family after Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution: ceremony; provisions were made for the handicapped to watch the parade. “I do solemnly swear (or affi rm) that I will faithfully execute the offi ce of President of the United States, and will to the best January 20, 1981—Ronald Reagan: First inaugural held on the of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of West Terrace of the Capitol; fi rst closed-captioning of television the United States.” broadcast for the hearing impaired.

NOTABLE EVENTS AND MILESTONES January 20, 1997—William J. Clinton: First time that the ceremony was broadcast live on the Internet. March 4, 1793—George Washington: Shortest inaugural address (135 words). January 20, 2001—George W. Bush: First time that a former President (George H. W. Bush) George Washington (1732-1799) delivered his fi rst inaugural address to a joint session of attended his son’s inauguration as President. Congress, assembled in Federal Hall, New York City, on April 30, 1789. The newly elected President delivered the speech in a deep, low voice that betrayed what one observer called *Sources: Architect of the Capitol, James H. Hutson and Janice E. Ruth, Manuscript Divi- “manifest embarrassment.” Aside from recommending constitutional amendments to satisfy sion Library of Congress, and “I Do Solemnly Swear...” http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pi- citizens demanding a Bill of Rights, Washington confi ned himself to generalities. He closed html/pihome.html. by asking for a “divine blessing” on the American people and their elected representatives. In delivering an inaugural address, Washington went beyond the constitutional requirement MEMORABLE WORDS of taking an oath of offi ce and thus established a precedent that has been followed since by every elected President. “To a few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous occasion; and yet, in the history of our Nation, it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority March 4, 1801—Thomas Jefferson: The fi rst and probably only President to walk to and as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and from his inaugural; fi rst newspaper extra of an inaugural address, printed by the National few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this Intelligencer. every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.” —Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981 March 4, 1857—James Buchanan: First inaugural known to have been photographed. “On each national day of inauguration since 1789, the people have renewed their sense of March 4, 1865—Abraham Lincoln: First time that African-Americans participated in the dedication to the United States. In Washington’s day the task of the people was to create and inaugural parade. weld together a nation. In Lincoln’s day the task of the people was to preserve that Nation from disruption from within. In this day the task of the people is to save that Nation and its March 4, 1897—William McKinley: First inaugural recorded by movie camera. institutions from disruption from without.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 20, 1941 March 4, 1909—William H. Taft: First use of an automobile in an inaugural parade (President Taft was not an occupant).

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05-0054 BushPamphletNEW.indd 16 11/10/04 2:36:55 PM Photo above on left is of President Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in 1861. Center photo is of President Grover Cleveland’s inaugural parade in front of the White House in 1885. Photo on right is of President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961 at the east portico of the U.S. Capitol.

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