Bush promotes aide to tighten grip on power
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PRESIDENT BUSH named another close White House aide to a key Cabinet position yesterday, part of an aggressive post-election strategy of gaining tight personal control over his foreign and domestic agenda.
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WASHINGTON $#8212; As he puts his new foreign policy team in place, President Bush is preparing a diplomatic push to repair relations with key allies, senior government officials, diplomats and congressional ...
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President Bush reached into his  inner circle on Tuesday and nominated a trusted confidante,  national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, to replace Colin  Powell as secretary of state.
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President Bush and top aides are  stepping up pressure on congressional negotiators to reach  agreement this week on post-Sept. 11 reforms of U.S. spy  agencies, officials said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush is preparing to issue an executive order that would immediately grant more power to the director of central intelligence, designating him to fill much of the role envisioned for a future national intelligence director
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President Bush has not been shy about asserting robust powers for the presidency in waging war, but lately he has seemed to concede that Congress has a role to play as well. Lawmakers, he has indicated, are within their rights to try to cap total deployments or limit where troops can go in Iraq.
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President Bush intends to reaffirm his commitment to Mideast peace and outline how the U.S. can help the Palestinian leadership make the transition to a viable state that can exist with Israel, a White House aide said Sunday.
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The vice president is playing a potentially pivotal role in shaping the Bush administration's ambitious domestic agenda.
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With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Bush administration is now depending on two politicians -- one accused in the 1990s of being a crook and the other still viewed as almost powerless -- to help prop up President Pervez Musharraf and stabilize volatile Pakistan, according to U.S....
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ANCHORENA PARK, Uruguay, March 10 -- President Bush said Saturday that his administration is working to put a halt to law enforcement abuses of new anti-terrorist intelligence-gathering powers, and he expressed continued confidence in the attorney general and FBI director.
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President Bush this month is giving an obscure White House office new powers over regulations affecting health, worker safety and the environment. Calling it a power grab, Democrats running Congress are intent on stopping him.
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President Bush and his top aides are striving to portray Mr. Bush as he appeared before Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.
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President Bush, the son of a former CIA director, has embraced a short-term fix for the CIA that -- surprise! -- gives the CIA director more power.
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This important book points out that the Bush White House has repeatedly sought to expand its powers, often doing so in secret, while sidelining Congress and the judiciary.
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Still smarting from a public spat during the Democratic National Convention, labor leaders on Monday tried to shift attention to ousting President Bush.
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President Bush, embroiled in a  fierce campaign battle over national security, on Friday will  give the post of CIA director some of the broad authority that  the Sept. 11 commission envisioned for a new intelligence czar.
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President Bush is giving an obscure White House office new powers this month over a wide range of regulations affecting health, worker safety and the environment. Calling it a power grab, Democrats running Congress are intent on stopping him.