Professor says Bush revealed National Guard favoritism
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A business school professor who taught George W. Bush at Harvard University in the early 1970s says the future president told him that family friends had pulled strings to get him into the Texas Air National Guard.
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Democrats raised new questions about  President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service on  Wednesday as White House hopeful John Kerry charged the Iraq  war was draining resources from the U.S. economy at home.
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President Bush on Saturday ridiculed what he called the "Kerry doctrine" as a dangerous outsourcing of America's security, seeking to poke a hole in Sen. John Kerry's debate performance with what advisers see as his rival's biggest miscue.
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President Bush, accused by Democrats of shirking his duty in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, wrote that he had &quot;inadequate time&quot; to meet future Reserve commitments in his Nov.
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Some current and retired members of the National Guard and other military services say they aren't bothered by newly revealed memos that indicate President Bush got preferential treatment in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, while others say they are troubling.
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President George W. Bush has for the first time raised questions about documents used to bolster a report that he received preferential treatment during his Vietnam era military service.
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A top lawyer working for the campaign of US President George W. Bush advised the Vietnam war veterans group behind a television ad discrediting the war record of his Democratic challenger, reports said.
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US President George W. Bush is fighting off new claims he did not fulfil his duties with the Air National Guard during the Vietnam era.
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WASHINGTON - A packet of Texas Air National Guard records newly released Friday showed that the commanding officer of President Bush's basic training unit took a special interest in him as a trainee and wrote to his father to praise his son.    Bush's father, then a congressman from Texas, said in reply to the commander, "That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me."   Bush went on to say that his son "will be a gung ho member" of the Air Force and that Air Force instructors had "helped awaken the very best instincts in my son."   The letter and other material were the latest in a stream of documents released about Bush's service three decades ago during the Vietnam War, when Bush's critics say he got preferential treatment as the son of a congressman and U.N...
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Growing evidence suggests that George W. Bush abruptly left his Texas Air National Guard unit in 1972 for substantive reasons pertaining to his inability to continue piloting a fighter jet.
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President George W. Bush's uncle, William H.T. "Bucky" Bush, was part of a group of outside directors at a defense contractor who realized about $6 million in unauthorized pay from an options backdating scheme, according to U.S. securities investigators.
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AUSTIN, Texas - A retired Texas National Guard official mentioned as a possible source for disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Guard said he passed along information to a former senator working with John Kerry's campaign.    Also, a White House official said Saturday that Bush has reviewed disputed documents that purport to show he refused orders to take a physical examination in 1972 and did not recall having seen them previously...
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President Bush, accused by Democrats of joining the National Guard to avoid going to Vietnam and then shirking his duty, told a Guard convention on Tuesday he is proud of his service but did not address lingering questions about his record.
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President George W. Bush&#39;s Vietnam-era Texas Air National Guard commander complained in 1972 that Bush was going over his head to try to &quot;get out of coming to drill&quot; in Texas and later said higher
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Journalists and politicos have been trying off and on for a decade now to suss out exactly what George W. Bush did in the National Guard more than 30 years ago.
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One of the highest-ranking generals in the U.S. military yesterday stood by views attributed to him in a controversial new book about the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq but said it was important to understand the context in which those views were expressed.
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The Pentagon has released what it  called newly found records concerning President Bush's service  in the Air National Guard, a subject of debate in the U.S.  presidential campaign, The New York Times said on Wednesday.