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  • July 2008

    • Bush Pays Respects to Snow

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 17, 08 12:05 PM CDT

      Bush Pays Respects to Snow

      President Bush fondly remembered Tony Snow today, telling mourners at his funeral that the conservative commentator-turned-White House press secretary "amassed a rare record of accomplishment." "He knew the job of a reporter was vigorous. He understood the profession and always treated it with respect," Bush said during a service at Washington's Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • White House  • Karl Rove  • funeral  • Tony Snow  • Andrew Card

    • Tony Snow Was Good at His Job

      newser  |  Time  |  Jul 12, 08 2:34 PM CDT

      Tony Snow Was Good at His Job

      When Tony Snow took over as press secretary 2 years ago, the White House press corps wanted blood. Snow’s predecessors, the hostile Ari Fleischer and misinformed Scott McClellan, had left a bad taste in their mouths. But then came Snow, a breath of fresh air who won over the room with his knowledge and wit, writes Massimo Calabresi of Time . More »

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      Bush administration  • obituary  • White House  • Fox News  • Tony Snow  • press secretary

    • Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 9, 08 1:11 PM CDT

      Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

      Words like "smear" and "gossip" have flown around American Wife , the novel probing the secret life of Laura Bush, but the book itself is pretty harmless, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times . Kings and queens have always inspired art, Dowd notes, and Wife isn’t sensationalist—it’s a well-researched attempt to get inside a guarded but intriguing figure. More »

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      White House  • sex  • literature  • first lady  • Laura Bush  • book reviews  • Curtis Sittenfeld

    • First Kids Are Kids First

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 8, 08 5:23 PM CDT

      First Kids Are Kids First

      Whether the Obama girls or the McCain brood move into the White House next, all eyes will be on the new presidential offspring. Saturday Night Live 's infamous dig at 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton and Jenna Bush's public underage drinking are reminders that nothing, from braces to boyfriends, escapes the spotlight. Some First Kid highlights from AP: More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • children  • White House  • Chelsea Clinton  • president  • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg  • childhood

  • June 2008

    • Advisers to Bush: You Asked for It

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 21, 08 3:44 PM CDT

      Advisers to Bush: You Asked for It

      President Bush ignored warnings that his detainee policy would spark a Supreme Court backlash, the Washington Post reports. Top lawyers both in and outside Washington said that jailing suspects without Congressional approval would push the court to rule on national security—but the White House either ignored the advice or disagreed. More »

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      Bush administration  • US Supreme Court  • White House  • Guantanamo prisoners  • detainee  • habeas corpus

    • Party Leaders in House Reach Deal on War Funds

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 18, 08 9:58 PM CDT

      Party Leaders in House Reach Deal on War Funds

      A two-year fight between the White House and Democrats over war funding has been resolved, the New York Times reports. House leaders reached a deal to allocate $163 billion for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through early next year. The measure, expected to be approved by the full House as early as tomorrow, also includes new education benefits for veterans and an extension of aid for the unemployed. More »

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      Iraq war  • Congress  • White House  • Pentagon  • Afghanistan war  • Midwest floods  • war funding  • unemployment benefits  • veterans' benefits  • John A. Boehner

    • Obama Wants Probe of VA Drug Tests

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Jun 18, 08 12:23 PM CDT

      Obama Wants Probe of VA Drug Tests

      Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John Cornyn are seeking a probe into reports that veterans had been recruited for tests on drugs linked to suicide, ABC News reports. An ABC News/ Washington Times story noted that vets were given the anti-smoking drug Chantix in government tests, but for more than three months, VA doctors did not tell patients about possible serious side effects. More »

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      Barack Obama  • White House  • suicide  • veterans  • veterans' health care  • ABC News  • Chantix  • John Cornyn  • Veterans Administration

    • White House Emails Can Stay Missing: Judge

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 16, 08 8:08 PM CDT

      White House Emails Can Stay Missing: Judge

      Records on millions of missing White House emails can stay secret after all, a federal judge ruled today. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected a watchdog group's lawsuit, saying the records are kept in an agency exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. A probe, lawsuit, and appeal are all pending in the battle over emails that vanished mysteriously last year. More »

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      George W. Bush  • White House  • Freedom of Information Act  • watchdog  • federal judges  • ruling

    • Bush to Overhaul Access for Disabled

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 16, 08 7:19 AM CDT

      Bush to Overhaul Access for Disabled

      With an eye to aging Boomers and Iraq vets, the Bush administration is set to propose wide-ranging new rules to improve disabled access to public spaces from retail stores to golf courses, the New York Times reports. The move, which updates  implementation of the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, would affect 7 million businesses and all state and local government agencies. While some call the plan's $23 billion price tag too steep, advocates for the disabled say it’s not enough. More »

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      Bush administration  • White House  • disability  • disabled  • proposals

    • More White House Links to Abramoff Revealed

      newser  |  The Hill  |  Jun 10, 08 3:33 AM CDT

      More White House Links to Abramoff Revealed

      The White House didn't go far enough in probing its links with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a new report from a House committee. The report reveals 70 more contacts between Abramoff's team and White House figures than had been previously acknowledged—including four extra meetings with President Bush, according to the Hill. The report also discovered more instances of officials accepting luxury meals and expensive tickets to events. More »

    • Clintons' Dream Has Finally Died

      newser  |  Politico  |  Jun 7, 08 3:47 PM CDT

      Clintons' Dream Has Finally Died

      Bill and Hillary Clinton will stay on the political scene, but today marked the end of an era for America’s top power couple, John Harris writes in Politico. The Clintons have spent nearly 40 years fixated on the White House—it was the organizing principle of their lives together—and now, for Hillary, that dream is over. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • White House  • Clinton administration

  • May 2008

    • Bush Mob Sets Its Sights on McClellan

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  May 30, 08 3:55 PM CDT

      Bush Mob Sets Its Sights on McClellan

      The Bush administration's reaction to Scott McClellan's new book should look familiar to anyone with HBO, with one important difference, writes Mike Lupica in the Daily News. "it has become clear by now that even the hoods from The Sopranos would be out of their weight class with George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove." More »

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      Bush administration  • White House  • book  • propaganda  • Scott McClellan

    • McClellan: I Believed Bush

      newser  |  Politico  |  May 29, 08 9:16 AM CDT

      McClellan: I Believed Bush

      Affection and loyalty blinded Scott McClellan in the run-up to the Iraq war, but now the former press secretary has found a higher allegiance—“a loyalty to the truth.” McClellan, whose book is causing a media storm for alleging President Bush ran a “propaganda” campaign about the war, defended his work this morning on NBC's Today . More »

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      Iraq war  • Bush administration  • White House  • book  • propaganda  • Scott McClellan  • press secretary

    • McClellan Blasts Bush in Harsh New Memoir

      newser  |  Politico  |  May 27, 08 8:24 PM CDT

      McClellan Blasts Bush in Harsh New Memoir

      Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan blasts President Bush for not being "open and forthright" about the war in Iraq and using "propaganda" to sell it, Politico reports. The president "veered terribly off course," McClellan writes in his surprisingly harsh new memoir. He also criticizes the press for not challenging Bush enough, even while admitting that some of his own statements at press conferences were "badly misguided." More »

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      George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • White House  • Scott McClellan

    • Times Editorial Has White House Seeing Red

      newser  |  The Hill  |  May 26, 08 3:57 PM CDT

      Times Editorial Has White House Seeing Red

      The New York Times lambasted President Bush in an editorial today for opposing the new GI Bill, and the White House swiftly fired back, the Hill reports. The paper “irresponsibly distorted” Bush's opposition to the bill, said a statement from press secretary Dana Perino, who said the editorial "could not be farther from the truth about the president’s record of leadership on this issue." More »

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      John McCain  • George W. Bush  • Congress  • White House  • McCain 2008  • New York Times  • journalism  • GI Bill

    • Vietnam Vets in Hog Heaven

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 26, 08 4:18 AM CDT

      Vietnam Vets in Hog Heaven

      Thousands of Harleys roared past Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial yesterday in what has become a Memorial Day weekend tradition: the "iron salute" of members of national veterans organization Rolling Thunder.  It's a festival of engines, leather, denim and patriotism, reports the Washington Post . More »

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      George W. Bush  • White House  • Vietnam War  • Vietnam veteran  • Fourth of July  • POW/MIA  • Memorial Day  • Harley Davidson

    • Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan Dead at 63

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 21, 08 3:07 AM CDT

      Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan Dead at 63

      Jimmy Carter's former chief of staff, Hamilton Jordan, has died at the age of 63 after battling cancer for more than 20 years, AP reports. Jordan was at the core of Carter's "Georgia Mafia," and helped propel the Democrat into the White House in 1976. "He was a great strategist," said Carter's former communications chief. "He just couldn't strategize his way out of this." More »

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      obituary  • presidential campaign  • White House  • Georgia  • Jimmy Carter  • presidency  • aide

    • White House Blasts NBC Over Interview Edit

      newser  |  The Hill  |  May 20, 08 11:36 AM CDT

      White House Blasts NBC Over Interview Edit

      The White House went after NBC yesterday, accusing the network of doctoring a recent interview with President Bush, the Hill reports. Asked if comments about Iran were directed at Democratic candidate Barack Obama, Bush declined to answer directly, but White House counselor Ed Gillespie says the interview was purposely edited to make it appear as though Bush was affirming that speculation. More »

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      Barack Obama  • George W. Bush  • Iran  • White House  • NBC  • appeasement  • NBC News  • American media  • Ed Gillespie

    • America's Most Haunted

      newser  |  LiveScience  |  May 11, 08 3:31 PM CDT

      America's Most Haunted

      Your local graveyard may be creepy, but mazelike mansions and murderous history make up LifeScience’s list of the most haunted places in America: Winchester Mystery House: More than 100 rooms and staircases leading nowhere fill this San Jose, Calif., mansion, built by its paranoid owner to ward off ghosts. Amityville Horror: The NY site where a son said demons possessed him to kill six family members. More »

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      White House  • ghosts  • Alcatraz  • haunted locations

    • Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 7, 08 10:57 AM CDT

      Crucial White House Emails Remain Lost

      White House emails from March-September 2003—the first few months of the Iraq invasion—still have not been found, the Washington Post reports. An advocacy group is suing for the release of the emails, and federal law requires such high-level communications be preserved. Officials, still searching, say the data might have been mislabeled, and could yet be retrieved from disaster-recovery tapes. More »

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      Iraq war  • White House  • email  • disaster recovery  • servers

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