Events Near and Far Overshadow Bush's Agenda
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On the first day of his last year in the White House, President Bush returned to Washington with an ambitious agenda for 2008, including tackling the mortgage lending crisis and securing more money from Congress for Iraq.
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George W. Bush likes to put up a show of administration unity for the world but his presidency has been marked by divisions on issues ranging from Iraq, to the US economy and the global environment.
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WASHINGTON - Normally, any time that President Bush holds one of his rare, full-length news conferences, thatâs the top news event of the day.
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US President George W. Bush campaigned in Florida ahead of his party's convention, on top in the polls but battered by negative economic news and a situation in Iraq he admits he miscalculated.
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President Bush's opponents call him lots of names but they don't call him timid. When it comes to taking risks, Bush has few peers. His second-term agenda is fraught with politically troublesome priorities, if not for Bush personally then for Republicans on the ballot in 2006 and 2008.
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Just when President Bush was trying to accentuate the positive in Iraq and declare a new beginning in the war on terror, a rash of bad news comes from multiple fronts in the global struggle.
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Viewpoint: President Bush reaches into history in defense of the war. But he's at odds with the realities on the ground
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An upbeat President Bush set forth an aggressive agenda for the next four years, but he also must deal with the realities his predecessors faced &#151; second terms tend to be disappointments, often marred by scandals, infighting and lackluster performances.
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Some say this is supposed to be the year President Bush and his flagging popularity bring down Republicans across the country.
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First the good: The rather extraordinary bump President Bush received after the Republican convention appears to have been just that, a bump.
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President Bush, declaring victory in the 2004 election, sketched out a second-term agenda on Wednesday even supporters conceded would be tough to achieve
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President Bushâs vaguely worded proposal has muddied what had been shaping up as a black-and-white showdown between Europe and the United States.
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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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President Bush's soaring rhetoric Thursday that the United States will promote the growth of democratic movements and institutions worldwide is at odds with the administration's increasingly close relations with repressive governments in every corner of the world.
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Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. Haditha. America&#039;s problems with Iraq are casting a long shadow over President Bush&#039;s meeting with European Union leaders this week.
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From politics to policy, it's campaign season all over again for President Bush.
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Few topics paint a starker difference between George W. Bush and John F. Kerry than US foreign policy. Bush, a man who rarely traveled outside