Bush to Address Social Security, Iraq in Speech
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President Bush will outline his  politically risky plan to revamp the Social Security retirement  system in a State of the Union speech on Wednesday night that  will also stress the need to stay the course in post-election  Iraq.
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With midterm elections around the corner, President Bush on Thursday will launch a series of speeches aimed at bolstering support for what the White House calls the "single ideological struggle" against terrorism, including the increasingly unpopular Iraq war.
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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 will host Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at the White House next week after two days of heavy diplomacy at the United Nations.
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MAIN TOPIC: President Bush will offer new details about his plan to let younger workers divert some of their Social Security payroll taxes into personal investment accounts. Experts say while the president will seek to reassure Americans who are at or near retirement, he will leave larger questions unanswered.
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Congressional Democrats hit President Bush on Wednesday for his Iraq policies and planned Social Security overhaul, hoping a vigorous response to his State of the Union speech will fuel a turnabout from their election setbacks last fall.
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Monday's address is expected to highlight improvements in Iraq, but not reforms for immigration or Social Security.
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President George W. Bush will emphasize on Tuesday that his strategy in Iraq is aimed at eventually bringing U.S. troops home, as he seeks to stem growing Republican defections from his war policy.
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President George W. Bush will offer ideas on Friday for shoring up the fragile U.S. economy, as he and the Democratic-led Congress move forward with talks on a plan to avert a recession.
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President Bush makes remarks to military personnel and their families, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004, Camp Pendleton, Calif. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson).
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Social Security reform, tax simplification and an aggressive pursuit of the war on terrorism top President George W. Bush&#39;s agenda for the next four years, he told reporters Thursday.
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President Bush speaks at the White House Conference on the Economy at the Ronald Reagan Center, Thursday, Dec. 16, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds).
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President George W. Bush, facing pressure to trim a record US budget deficit, will combine a push to restructure Social Security with a call for spending discipline as he wraps up a two-day economic summit.
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RIGA, Latvia, Nov. 29 -- President Bush signaled plans to both reassure and pressure Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki over deteriorating conditions in Iraq, as the White House prepared for an unusual summit Wednesday in Jordan aimed at arresting the slide in security.
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U.S. President George W. Bush will outline reforms on Friday to help struggling subprime mortgage borrowers, and his central bank chief will deliver a speech which will be pored over for hints of a looming rate cut.
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President Bush plans to make the case for reforming Social Security at the economic summit he will open Wednesday. He couldn&#39;t pick a more ambitious, or more devilish, domestic project.
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President Bush also plans to further his case for remaking Social Security during his State of the Union address, a speech also expected to celebrate the spread of democracy.