KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) – Former President George H.W. Bush marked his 85th birthday on Friday the same way he did his 75th and 80th birthdays: He leaped from a plane and zoomed downward in freefall before parachuting safely to a spot near his Maine oceanfront home.
Bush made the tandem jump from 10,500 feet (3,200 meters) [...]
ARTESIA, New Mexico (AP) – It was a humbling moment for the former commander in chief: President George W. Bush was walking former first dog Barney in his new Dallas neighborhood when it stopped in a neighbor’s yard for relief.
“And there I was, former president of the United States of America, with a plastic bag [...]
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – In the latest reversal of his predecessor’s policies, President Barack Obama planned on Monday to lift federal funding bans on stem cell research.
The president will be fulfilling a campaign promise that was likely to set in motion a broad front of research to find better treatment for [...]
By The Associated Press
Some cases in which actions by the Obama administration have tracked policies of former President George W. Bush:
WHITE HOUSE RECORDS
The Obama administration sided with Bush in trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails from the Bush years, reasoning that plenty had [...]
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Barack Hussein Obama, 47, was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday afternoon, setting aside more than 200 years of history by becoming the nation’s first African-American leader and promising a new era of “hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.”
Under the Constitution, [...]
By ANDREW WHALEN
Associated Press Writer
LIMA, Peru (AP) – President George W. Bush signed off Friday on a free trade pact with Peru that U.S. officials say will foster economic growth, but which lawmakers in both countries complain does not meet environmental and labor protection requirements.
In a statement issued in Washington, where Bush signed a proclamation [...]
By The Associated Press
A look at the ups and downs of George W. Bush’s presidency on some of the biggest issues of the day:
BUDGET
Bush inherited a federal budget that had just posted a record $236 billion surplus, but the U.S. government’s fiscal picture deteriorated sharply on his watch. The deficit for the recently completed 2008 [...]
By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – An entire generation has gone by since the public last saw this tableau of American history: every living U.S. president together at the White House. Consider it time for a reunion among the members of one of the world’s most elite clubs, plus the one man about to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government’s poor handling of the natural disaster.
“Katrina to me was the tipping point,” said Matthew Dowd, [...]
By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bush administration came to the rescue of the deeply troubled U.S. auto industry Friday, offering $17.4 billion in loans in exchange for concessions from carmakers and their workers.
“Allowing the auto companies to collapse is not a responsible course of action,” President George W. Bush said. Bankruptcy, He [...]
