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Reason
April 13, 2018
Of course, Becerra and Galgiani were not purposely echoing these things any more than President George W. Bush was purposely channeling authoritarian societies when he chose the unfortunate term "homeland security" as the moniker for a federal agency. But the underlying economic idea behind theÃâà...
Politico
April 13, 2018
TRUMP TO DO WHAT GEORGE W. BUSH WOULDN'T DO … “President Trump poised to pardon Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, sources say,” by .... CNN's “State of the Union”: Preet Bharara. Panel: Rick Santorum, Jennifer Granholm, Nina Turner and Bill Kristol. -- CNN's “Inside Politics”Ãâà...
SF Weekly
April 13, 2018
In virtually every show about Washington politics, there's some kind of plot arc about an anomaly in the presidential line of succession. On The West Wing, it was John Goodman's archconservative Speaker of the House Glen Allen Walken becoming acting president in the absence of a vice president afterÃâà...
WFAA.com
April 12, 2018
2004: Pushes President George W. Bush to make dramatic changes to Social Security, something the president takes up after his re-election. November 2006: Re-elected, ... by The Daily Telegraph. January 2011: Ryan delivers the Republican response to Obama's State of the Union address. April 15Ãâà...
New York Times
April 12, 2018
... no free-trade guy disagrees on this subject,” Larry Kudlow, the new director of the National Economic Council, said on CNN's “State of the Union” on ... is a serious one, particularly for the United States,” said N. Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard economist who headed President George W. Bush's Council ofÃâà...
WTVA
April 10, 2018
"He is pretty good at negotiating," said Trump's new chief economist, Larry Kudlow, on CNN's "State of the Union." "But he is .... Once the favored European leader for US presidents, including Obama and President George W. Bush, Merkel got off to a frosty start with Trump and struggled to recover. The twoÃâà...
Fairfield Daily Republic
March 10, 2018
During his 2006 “addicted to oil” State of the Union address, President George W. Bush bemoaned imports from unstable parts of the world and called for replacing 75 percent of Middle East oil imports by 2025. Well, in 2017, the U.S. imported approximately half as much oil from the Persian Gulf as it did inÃâà...
Jacksonville Journal Courier
March 10, 2018
President George W. Bush took a more hardline approach. His administration accused North Korea of enriching uranium, which Pyongyang denied. In his 2002 State of the Union speech, Bush described North Korea as part of an "axis of evil". By 2003, North Korea had officially withdrawn from the Nonproliferation Treaty .
ThinkProgress
March 9, 2018
Eric Trump (L) and his wife, Lara, arrive for the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2018. ... Both George W. Bush and his father appointed four women during each of their terms, and presidents from Reagan back to Washington have unsurprisingly few womenÃâà...
Buffalo News
March 9, 2018
Trump took credit for a rising stock market at his State of the Union while the stock market started to dive and still is. You believed him. ... He fought to accelerate President George W. Bush's plan to successfully heal the economy despite severe criticism from the Republican Party. It was slow but it avoidedÃâà...
New York Times
March 9, 2018
Clinton administration officials said a deal was close, but nothing was concluded by the time President George W. Bush took office in 2001. .... Later that month, during his inaugural State of the Union speech, Mr. Trump vowed he would not repeat “the mistakes of past administrations that got us into thisÃâà...
Dallas News
March 9, 2018
During his 2006 "addicted to oil" State of the Union address, President George W. Bush bemoaned imports from unstable parts of the world and called for replacing 75 percent of Middle East oil imports by 2025. Well, in 2017, the U.S. imported approximately half as much oil from the Persian Gulf as it did inÃâà...
Loudwire
March 9, 2018
2003's Animositisomina, which Jourgensen has called his least favorite metallic Ministry record, came while George W. Bush was in office and the creative team of Jourgensen and his perceived right-hand man, bassist Paul Barker, parted ways shortly after; some viewed this as a tragic moment for the bandÃâà...
Roll Call
March 8, 2018
Both involved former President George W. Bush. ... The second anecdote involved Bush's first State of the Union address after she became speaker. ... Bush opened his speech by noting that he had the distinct honor of being the first president to begin a State of the Union address with the words “MadamÃâà...
CBS News
March 8, 2018
At his 2012 State of the Union address, Obama declared that "over a thousand Americans are working today because we stopped a surge in Chinese tires. ... In March 2002, former President George W. Bush imposed tariffs up to 30 percent on most steel imports from Europe, Asia and South America. At theÃâà...
KTVQ Billings News
March 2, 2018
January 29, 2002 - US President George W. Bush labels Iraq part of an "axis of evil" in his State of the Union speech. September 16, 2002 - Iraq agrees unconditionally to the return of inspectors. September 19, 2002 - Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri delivers a letter to the UN from Hussein stating that IraqÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 2, 2018
... said Thomas Graham, senior director for Russia on the George W. Bush National Security Council staff and now managing director at Kissinger Associates Inc. .... In that document, Trump formalized his State of the Union pledge to build a nuclear arsenal “so strong and powerful that it will deter any acts ofÃâà...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
February 10, 2018
... the polls was Richard Nixon in 1971, shedding seven points off his approval ratings. President Carter lost five points in his 1978 speech, while George Bush Sr. saw his approval rating drop four points after his second SOTU. Like his father, George W. Bush saw his second State of the Union speech drop,Ãâà...
Savannah Morning News
February 7, 2018
When a U.S. president steps before Congress and the cameras, it's a primetime event unlike few others in American life. The ratings can approach those of the Super Bowl, exceeding sporting contests or media awards. One might therefore assume that the State of the Union speech generates a boost in aÃâà...
Quartz
February 5, 2018
Both sides stand for the end of George W. Bush's speech in January of 2002. (Reuters/Mike Theiler). Republican reactions during Barack Obama's State of the Union speeches were much more muted, according to newswire coverage, with the Republican side often failing to applaud his remarks during theÃâà...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
February 4, 2018
That wasn't a record, though. Trump came in sixth in total State of the Union viewers since Nielsen began collecting the data in 1993. George W. Bush garnered 62 million viewers in 2003; Bill Clinton 53 million in 1998; Bush 51.8 million in 2002; Barack Obama 48 million in 2010; and Clinton 45.8 million inÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 3, 2018
Before the 2016 presidential election, the U.S. for the first time in decades was getting more energy domestically than it imports. Before Obama, George W. Bush was no adversary of the energy industry. One of Trump's consequential actions as president on this front was to approve the Keystone XL pipelineÃâà...
Business Insider
February 3, 2018
Johnson, both Presidents George H.W. and George W. Bush, and President Bill Clinton all spoke at a rate of less than 100 words per minute. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama spoke in excess of 101.5 words per minute, according to information fromÃâà...
Newsweek
February 1, 2018
Obama's 2009 and 2010 speeches were the most watched since George W. Bush's State of the Union in 2003, when 62 million people tuned in as he argued in favor of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Bush also had 51 million viewers for his 2002 State of the Union, the first such address following the September 11Ãâà...
Deadline
January 31, 2018
Barack Obama had just more than 48 million total viewers for his first SOTU in 2010 on 11 outlets, and nearly 52 million watched George W. Bush's post-9/11 first SOTU in 2002 on eight outlets. Adding to the con column, Trump did not beat the 45.8 million who tuned in for Bill Clinton's first SOTU on ABC,Ãâà...
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