Photos by TROY WAYRYNEN/The Columbian Former First Lady Laura Bush visits with guests at a private reception Tuesday before her speech at the Hilton Vancouver Washington.
A SMALL state with 2-to-1 Democratic registration is not expected to get many visits by a Republican president. But don't tell that to George W. Bush, whose Wednesday trip to Charleston for a fundraiser for Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito was his 20th visit to the Mountain State. In six years, Bush already has visited the state more than three times as much as any other chief executive. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter each came six times, while Gerald Ford came twice and Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush came only once.
SIMI VALLEY - With Nancy Reagan on his arm, former President George W. Bush on Thursday brought his bestseller campaign and an unexpected sense of humorous storytelling to the cathedral of American Republicanism - the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. I have zero desire to be in the limelight except to sell the book," Bush said in an evening marked by a display of Mark Twain- like humor as he told stories of his presidency mixed with fatherly advice.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- President Bush delivered a sophisticated weapons sale for Saudi Arabia on Monday, trying to bolster defenses against threats from U.S. adversary Iran and muster support in this oil-rich kingdom for a long-stalled Mideast peace agreement. On a surprisingly cold day with blustery winds, Bush received a warm embrace from King Abdullah, whose family wields almost absolute rule. Among ordinary Saudis and across much of the Mideast, Bush is unpopular, particularly because of the Iraq war and unflinching U.S. support for Israel.
Criticizing a culture of "extreme individualism and capitalism" in the U.S., [Hugo Chavez] proposed his "Bolivarian Revolution" as an alternative model - using his country's petroleum riches to aid not only poor states in South America and the Caribbean but the poor of North America as well. While wildly popular among Venezuela's poor, Chavez has stirred bitter opposition among the country's elite. The first mixed-race president in Venezuela, Chavez frequently cites pride in his African and Indian origins and has directed substantial resources to alleviate poverty and illiteracy among Venezuela's isolated indigenous people. President Chavez met with our African American delegation in Miraflores palace in Caracas," said [Harry Belafonte]. "He told us, look at my thick lips. Look at my b...
Touts $500M plan for jobs, education PERRYSBURG - Barely 12 hours after his State of the Union speech, President Bush came to Owens Community College on Wednesday morning to outline more than $500 million worth of proposals to improve job training, higher education and high schools and middle schools.
Except for the few hundred people who paid the hefty price tag to attend private fundraisers for John McCain's White House bid, the only glimpse most Utahns got of President Bush on Wednesday was through the tinted windows of his limousine as it sped by. Those contributors, however, not only got to meet the president, but were expected to add millions of dollars to the campaign coffers of McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. The two fundraisers cost a minimum of $500 for an afternoon reception in the Avenues and $70,100 per couple for a reception at McCain-rival- turned-supporter Mitt Romney's vacation home in Deer Valley.
President Bush continued his Olympics juggling act on Sunday, settling for a pointed remark in public to push for wider religious freedom in China and raising further political concerns privately with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Standing on the rain-splattered steps of the state-sanctioned Beijing Kuanjie Protestant Christian Church after attending an early morning service, Mr. Bush said it was "a joy and a privilege" to worship in the Chinese capital, as he did in 2005.
AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- President Bush raised the possibility Monday of U.S. troop cuts in Iraq if security continues to improve, traveling here secretly to assess the war before a showdown with Congress. The president was joined by his war cabinet and military commanders at an unprecedented meeting in Iraq over eight hours at this dusty military base in the heart of Anbar province, 120 miles west of Baghdad.
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