Bush asks Americans to help needy
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President Bush issued a Christmas Day call for compassion toward the sick and suffering, urging Americans to volunteer to help the neediest among their fellow citizens.
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President Bush will ask Congress for &#36;2 billion to help victims of Hurricane Charley, the White House said Friday.
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Bush exchanged gifts with his family, posed for photographs with Marines, and issued a Christmas day radio address urging Americans to care for the sick, the elderly and the poor.
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President George W. Bush put his father, George Bush, and his predecessor, Bill Clinton, in charge of efforts to raise private US donations for countries devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunamis.
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President Bush on Monday tapped two former presidents &#151; his father, President George H.W. Bush, and his predecessor, President Clinton &#151; to lead a nationwide, private fund-raising campaign to help victims of the Asian tsunamis.
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U.S. Democratic senators on Tuesday  urged the Bush administration to immediately release the $100  million remaining in emergency funds to help poor Americans pay  their winter heating bills.
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The president enlisted former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton to lead a nationwide charity drive.
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President Bush on Saturday offered a long list of ways the United States is trying to help victims of the deadly tsunami in South Asia.
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President George W Bush asks the US Congress for $500m to help Mexico in the fight against illegal drugs.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush, seizing on Fidel Castro's fading health as a chance for rare change, will ask other nations today to help Cuba become a free society one day by committing money and political capital to the cause.
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President Bush mobilized federal emergency assistance Tuesday on behalf of Southern California officials struggling with devastating wildfires, and scheduled a visit to the stricken region on Thursday.
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Former President George H.W. Bush has appealed for nearly $100 million in aid for survivors of last year's South Asia earthquake, saying tens of thousands face another winter living in tents.
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President Bush, who called on Americans this week to make a donation to help victims of the Asian tsunami, has contributed &#36;10,000 himself, the White House said on Wednesday.
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President Bush is making a renewed push to allow the government to spend food aid money to buy crops in poor countries. Congress is unlikely to go along.
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President George W Bush calls on US firms to throw their weight behind rebuilding efforts in Lebanon.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush said on  Wednesday the United States' initial grant of $35 million in  the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in South East Asia was  "only the beginning of our help" but he did not announce an  immediate increase in aid.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush appealed to Congress on Saturday to give him real cash for the war, not just a pledge to fund the troops.