Bush urges Republicans to unite in race
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President Bush on Friday rallied his party's conservative wing to unite behind the Republican nominee in the battle for the presidency, but avoided mention of John McCain, the leading candidate and presumed winner who has a history of clashing with his party's right flank.
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President Bush waded directly into the presidential campaign in an interview broadcast yesterday, defending Sen. John McCain as a "true conservative" but warning that his onetime rival needs to shore up relations with the Republican Party's base to take the fight into the general election this fall.
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President Bush urged the Senate on Thursday to follow the House lead and approve a White House plan for detaining and interrogating terrorism suspects, saying, "The American people need to know we're working together to win the war on terror."
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John McCain praised his old political  foe President Bush on Monday in a convention speech aimed at  attracting undecided voters to the Republican cause.
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The Republican Party nominated  President Bush for a second four-year term in the White House  on Tuesday with a ringing call for his re-election and a  torrent of praise for his strength and "compassionate"  leadership.
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The man President Bush describes as the architect of his successful re-election campaign says this may be a turning point for the Republican Party, which has also expanded its majority in both houses of Congress.
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Republicans nominated President Bush  for a second four-year term in the White House on Tuesday with  ringing calls for his re-election from Laura Bush and Arnold  Schwarzenegger, who said the world was more free and America  more safe under his leadership.
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President Bush began a new drive today to rally the American people behind him on the Iraq war and national security.
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Republican presidential candidates  need to make a &quot;clean break&quot; from President George W. Bush and  the U.S. government or they will lose in November 2008, a  veteran Republican leader said on Friday.
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NEW YORK  - Republicans began taking a  bite at the Big Apple on Monday as they launched their  political convention by hyping President Bush's leadership  qualities and approving the party's platform.
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On the eve of his inauguration,  President Bush on Wednesday called for unity and pledged to  represent all Americans during his second term which he begins  with an aggressive domestic agenda amid deep partisan divide  over his Iraq policy.
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President Bush kicked off Republican convention week on Monday with stops in two states where he is running behind, New Hampshire and Michigan, and cast himself as a decisive leader in the war on terror, a position his Democratic opponent contested.
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The Republican Party nominated President Bush for a second four-year term in the White House on Tuesday with a ringing call for his re-election
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US President George W. Bush set the stage Sunday for one of the Republican convention's central messages, telling cheering supporters here they must court opposition Democrats on his behalf.
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Nervous Republicans are urging President Bush to unveil a robust second-term agenda at his convention next week to shift voters' focus from the unpopular war in Iraq and other issues that are a distraction to his re-election drive. Some contend the party should ditch the GOP-fueled controversy over rival John Kerry's combat record in Vietnam.
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President Bush dispatched the vice president and top aides to the Capitol on Tuesday to try to break an election-season deadlock with Republicans over the surveillance and prosecution of terrorism suspects.
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The US Republican Party has kicked off its national convention in New York to launch President George W Bush on his run for a second, four-year term.