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President Bush's approval rating stands at 30 percent in the latest Newsweek poll, the lowest approval rating recorded for the president in that poll's history. |
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600 Protestors march through Kennebunkport, Maine and rally near the Bush family compound calling for an end to US involvement in the Iraq conflict. |
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US President Bush declares his support for a U.N. resolution that would deploy a multinational force to end the crisis in Lebanon. |
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Beirut, Lebanon on a diplomatic mission to address the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah forces. |
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During the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Stephen Colbert delivers a biting 20-minute speech and video presentation which roasted both the Bush Administration and White House Press Corps. Many find the presentation unfunny and over-the-line, while others see it as a much neede ... |
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Fox News host Tony Snow named new White House press secretary. Political satirist Stephen Colbert will suggest the secret service code name of "Snow Job" during his roast of the President and the White House Press Corps. |
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White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan resigns while standing with embattled US President George W. Bush. FOX News personality Tony Snow will later be named as a replacement. |
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Speaking in Tampa, US President Bush tells the audience that Al Qaeda and other terrorists are "people who will kill the innocent in order to achieve a tactical objective and a strategic objective." He also states that "You can't negotiate with these people. You cannot reason with them." Unfortuna ... |
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Correspondence from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff is made public today that President Bush met him "almost a dozen" times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the man. "The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. ... |
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According to a letter from special Prosecutor Fitzgerald to I. Scooter Libby's lawyers, "Mr. Libby testified (to the grand jury) that he was authorized to disclose (classified) information ... to the press by his superiors." I. Scooter Libby was Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. |
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In a letter to Scooter Libby’s lawyers, Patrick Fitzgerald says he has learned "that many e-mails from Cheney’s office at the time of the Plame leak in 2003 have been deleted contrary to White House policy." Administration cirtics suggest this would implicate Vice President Cheney in criminal obstr ... |
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At the same time that Exxon Mobil is reporting record profits and suggesting that production be cut to preserve those profits, US President George W. Bush tells congress in his State of the Union Address "Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstab ... |
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The Bush administration announces that US deficit spending in the 2006 budget would soar above $400 billion, well over the July forecast. |
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New York congresswoman Louise Slaughter reveals that GOP activist James Guckert reported from the White House for the Talon News Service under the alias Jeff Gannon. "It appears that 'Mr. Gannon's' presence in the White House press corps was merely as a tool of propaganda for your administration," ... |
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White House adviser Karl Rove, often credited with being the true intellect in the Bush adminstration, is promoted to deputy chief of staff. The titles comes in addition to his current role as Bush’s chief political strategist. Rove will have oversight of policy councils advising George W. Bush on n ... |
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Ignoring lessons learned in the early 20th century with regard to "Arabia", US Vice President Dick Cheney maintains that "This is going to be Iraq. It's going to be written by the Iraqis, for the Iraqis, implemented and executed by them." In the early 20th century, Britain and France created natio ... |
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George W. Bush delivers his State of the Union address. He briefly mentions North Korea, saying Washington was "working closely with governments in Asia to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions." |
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During a news conference, James Guckert with the Talon News Service asks US President George Bush how he could deal with Democratic congressional leaders "who seem to have divorced themselves from reality." The question will lead to an investigation regarding his status as an activist with GOPUSA, ... |
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U.S. President George W. Bush is inaugurated for his second term in Washington, DC. |
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Speaking just before his inauguration, US Vice President Dick Cheney tells MSNBC: "We don't want a war in the Middle East, if we can avoid it. " With regard to Iran, Cheney added "I think everybody would be best suited by or best treated and dealt with if we could deal with it diplomatically." Che ... |
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White House press secretary Scott McClellan quietly announces that the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war. Chief U.S. weapons hunter Charles Duelfer will deliver a report ... |
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US President Bush, citing the "complexity" of the role of Secretary of Defense, uses his end-of-year address to state again that he has asked Donald Rumsfeld to continue on for his second term because he had faith in his ability to do a complex job. "It's complex in times of peace. And it's complex ... |
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Managing editor Jim Kelly announces that Time selected George W. Bush "for sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters this time around that he deserved to be in the White Hou ... |
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The Bush administration agrees to write off Iraq's debts to the United States totalling $4.1 billion, racked up during the regime of Saddam Hussein. |
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White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan announces that "Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a great job leading our efforts at the Department of Defense to win the war on terrorism and to help bring about a free and peaceful Iraq, and the president is focused on working closely with him on those matters ... |
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US President George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to ex-CIA director George Tenet, General Tommy Franks, and Paul Bremer, the former US administrator in Iraq. According to the Medal of Freedom Website, "this great honor is reserved for ... |
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President George W. Bush chose U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Leavitt on Monday to take charge of the Department of Health and Human Services. The White House did not name a successor for Leavitt, whose brief tenure at the helm of the EPA did little to please environmenta ... |
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The American media reveals a two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order by which President Bush directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and "sensory deprivation through the use of hoods, etc." The FBI e-mail, which ... |
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Analysis of AP photos and video footage of President Bush reveal an odd shape under his suit during both the first and second presidential debates, leading bloggers to suggest that he was wired and advised by Karl Rove. |
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Supporters of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act swarm Karl Rove's house in Washington D.C., |
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