Bush Promotes Social Security Accounts as Opponents Mobilize
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President George W. Bush said Social Security is headed for bankruptcy and pressed his plan for private retirement accounts as a coalition representing labor, women, blacks, seniors and the disabled challenged his proposal.
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President Bush hits the road on  Thursday to persuade wary members of Congress and Americans to  support an overhaul of Social Security after raising the  incendiary topic of possible limits on future retirement  benefits.
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President Bush is confronting a deep split within his own party over how to proceed on his plan for privatizing Social Security.
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President Bush, who has promised that his plan to allow private investment accounts in Social Security would give workers a &quot;better rate of
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President Bush will spearhead an  election-style public relations campaign early next year to try  to convince Americans that Social Security is in urgent need of  change but will keep dollar and cent details deliberately  vague, analysts and officials say.
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President's plan to overhaul Social Security reflects bigger fight of free market vs. safety net.
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Facing an intensifying fight over  his plan to revamp Social Security, President Bush insisted on  Saturday that the retirement program was in peril and he had a  moral responsibility to fix it.
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Treasury Secretary John Snow began a sales effort on Monday to drum up Wall Street support for President Bush's plans to overhaul Social Security.
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President Bush is barnstorming the country, trying to convince the public that Social Security needs an urgent overhaul and offering a solution even the White House acknowledges won't fix the retirement system's future financial problems.
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PRESIDENT BUSH used an economic summit in Washington last week to promote his plans to reform the crumbling Social Security system.
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Democrats accused President Bush on  Saturday of trying to scare Americans into believing the Social  Security retirement system is in crisis to build support for  his private investment account plan.
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As President Bush plans to funnel Social Security funds into privately held investment accounts, Wall Street has begun a muted lobbying campaign.
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The president's Social Security plan seems to be a tougher sell since he was enthusiastically greeted there last week.
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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - Beginning a major push for one of his signature economic plans, President Bush on Thursday called for urgent action to revamp the Social Security system.
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The Social Security Administration is preparing a campaign to convince the public that private accounts are needed.
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President Bush warned younger  workers on Tuesday of a grim future for their Social Security  benefits but critics accused him of exaggerating the retirement  system's problems to try and sell his plan to change it.
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RALEIGH, N.C.  - President Bush, determined to  build support for overhauling Social Security, sought on  Thursday to assure members of Congress that they would not be  hurt politically for supporting his proposal.