Bush speech will seek to calm fears over economy
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President George W. Bush will use his final State of the Union address on Monday to try to reassure nervous Americans about his economic rescue plan and chart a course to stay relevant in his last year in power.
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COMPTON, California  - Economic worries dominated the presidential campaign on Thursday, with White House hopefuls on both coasts touting plans to ease the pain of a recession while President George W. Bush prepared to announce his own fiscal package.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Thursday cited "some unsettling times" in the U.S. housing and credit markets as he sought to assure jittery Americans that the economy is holding up well despite worries about a recession.
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U.S. President George W. Bush insisted on Wednesday that the economic stimulus package he is working on with Congress will be robust enough to help the U.S. economy.
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President George W. Bush hopes a $150 billion economic stimulus package will avert a recession in his final year in office but he also faces another problem: worsening budget deficits.
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President Bush gave a wide-ranging speech about the economy yesterday, but proposed no new policies to deal with the emerging economic distress. Instead, he asked Congress to take up various actions that have been mainstays of the administration's second-term economic policy.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday  said he would consider "all options" to help the U.S. economy  weather a deep housing slump but said the economy was  fundamentally strong.
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President Bush makes remarks during a White House conference on the economy, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004, in Washington. The administration is hoping to build momentum for Bush&#39;s ambitious second-term agenda
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The nation&#39;s economy is growing, President Bush told attendees on the second day of a White House economic conference, but work remains to be done on Social Security, the deficit and what the president called &quot;fiscal restraint.
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President Bush is likely to respond to recession fears much as he did on entering office in 2001, but this time around Democrats are planning to push back.
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President George W. Bush on Friday tried to calm financial market turmoil from the credit crisis by announcing proposals intended to prevent homeowners from defaulting on risky mortgages.
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President Bush will use a two-day  economic conference this week to try to build support for a  planned overhaul of Social Security his critics say could put  the retirement system at risk.
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President Bush's final State of the Union address will tell Americans to be confident in their economic future.
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President George W. Bush believes a short-term boost is needed to deal with the softening in the U.S. economy, the White House said on Thursday amid what it described as "mixed" economic data.
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President Bush, on a trip to pitch his Social Security plans, tried on Thursday to calm restive Republicans who fear the political consequences of supporting his idea for personal retirement accounts.
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Bush administration officials on Friday sought to ease fears the U.S. was tipping into recession after a government report showed the economy shed jobs for the first time in four years last month.
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President Bush said Tuesday that he is watching very carefully to see if the struggling U.S. economy needs a short-term boost from the federal government.