In interview with his sister, Bush reflect on his legacy | Politics | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
chron.com 12/1/2008 — WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush, famously disinterested in public introspection, opened up a bit in a recent interview by a friendly questioner, his sister, Doro Bush Koch. "I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and ...

Barbara Bush Hospitalized In Texas
huffingtonpost.com 11/26/2008 — ABC News station KTRK in Houston is reporting that former First Lady Barbara Bush is in the hospital: Eyewitness News has learned that former First Lady Barbara Bush was transported to the Methodist Hospital emergency room. Hospital officials ...

Former First Lady Barbara Bush Taken to Hospital for Tests
democraticunderground.com 11/26/2008 — Source: [b]Fox[/b] HOUSTON -- It has been reported that Former First Lady Barbara Bush was taken to the emergency room at Methodist Hospital. Several black unmarked cars escorted Barbara Bush, 83, and President George H.W. Bush to the hospital because she had been feeling ill for about a ...

Bush's Iran Policy Has Failed
washingtonpost.com 11/29/2008 — Absent some last-minute fireworks, President Bush will leave office with a kind of double failure on Iran: Administration hard-liners haven't checked Tehran's drive to acquire nuclear-weapons technology, and moderates haven't engaged Iran in ...

Bush Appointee Said to Reject Advice on Endangered Species
washingtonpost.com 12/2/2008 — A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has rejected staff scientists' recommendations to protect imperiled animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act at least six times in the past three years, documents show. In ...

Publications
washingtoninstitute.org 12/3/2008 — Presidential Study Group Reports Format: PDF, 16 Pages Published: June 2008 Price: Free Download File Size: 236 KB The Presidential Task Force on the Future of U.S.-Israel Relations -- the first of three Presidential Task Forces sponsored by The ...

War on terror: Barack Obama
salon.com 11/25/2008 — Nov. 25, 2008 | Barack Obama will confront a daunting list of priorities when he takes office on Jan. 20. Rescuing the nation's economy -- if there's anything left to rescue by then -- will obviously be at the top of the list. But it is just as ...

Short Publications - Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred?
aei.org 12/3/2008 — Download file Click here to view this Outlook as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. No. 8, November 2008 The development of an Iranian nuclear program continues apace. While Iran's true intentions are a mystery, the Bush administration's posture has been ...

Bush calls flawed Iraq intelligence biggest regret
reuters.com 12/2/2008 — WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said the biggest regret of his presidency was flawed intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and told ABC "World News" in an interview airing on Monday that he was unprepared for ...

Caught on Tape: Bush Admits WMD Were Irrelevant
thinkprogress.org 12/3/2008 — On day that the United States invaded Iraq, President Bush said that we were doing so “reluctantly” but that “ our purpose was clear ” — to get rid of Saddam’s “weapons of mass murder.” (Note: Bush did not say “purposes.” According to Bush, there was ...

Stimulus to Include Internet-Access Funds — WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 12/2/2008
The economic-stimulus package will include investment in broadband Internet infrastructure and funds to upgrade and repair the national power grid alongside more traditional funding for road and bridge repair, a Pelosi aide said.

Big Three ask Pelosi for big bucks — POLITICO.com: Congress 12/2/2008
Detroit’s Big Three asked Congress on Tuesday for upwards of $34B in loans to keep the industry afloat.

Big Three ask Pelosi for big bucks (Politico) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 12/2/2008
Politico - Led by General Motors Corp., Detroit’s Big Three asked Congress on Tuesday for upwards of $34 billion in federal loans to keep the industry afloat and help it restructure itself without going into bankruptcy. 

Sen. Mel Martinez of Fla. won't seek re-election (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 12/3/2008
AP - U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, who has struggled to boost public support because of his close ties to President George W. Bush, announced Tuesday he will not seek a second term in 2010, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.

Auto Giants Ratchet Up Pleas for Aid — Wash Post In Congress 12/3/2008
General Motors, an icon of American manufacturing and the world's largest automaker, yesterday threw itself at the mercy of Congress, saying it needed $4 billion to avert a cash crisis by the end of the month and as much as $18 billion in federal ...