Topic: George W. Bush
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration released new guidelines on Friday aimed at promoting diversity and reducing racial isolation in education, replacing the policy adopted in 2008 under then-President George W. Bush.Administration officials said the new guidance makes clear that educators may ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich finally reached front-runner status this week after a long climb and may now have drawn the wrath of conservatives by professing a moderate position on illegal immigration.The former speaker of the House of Representatives ...
Ex-vice president Dick Cheney takes "cheap shots" in his new memoir in his criticism of top members of the George W. Bush administration, former US secretary of state Colin Powell said Sunday.Cheney predicted "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir" would ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's new book levels "cheap shots" at colleagues and mischaracterizes events, ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday.Powell, whose disagreements with Cheney on issues such as Iraq have been well known for years, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney signed a secret resignation letter shortly after taking office in 2001 and kept it in a safe, according to an excerpt of an NBC interview released on Wednesday.Cheney, who has a long history of ...
Former US president George W. Bush scrapped plans to address a summit of young business executives this weekend because Wikileaks founder Julian Assange would also speak to the group, his office said Friday."The former president has no desire to share a forum ...
SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) - After nearly two years of leading the Republican charge against President Barack Obama, a kinder and gentler Dick Cheney is reining in some of his harshest criticisms of the White House.The former vice president, a frequent and ...
E-mails, digital photos mean George W. Bush's presidential library has most electronic infoArchivists responsible for putting together the presidential library of former President George W. Bush are tasked with processing 80 terabytes of electronic information — 20 times the Clinton administration's four ...
Capital Culture: In private meetings between president, lawmakers, talk is bland, candor rareWhen presidents sit down in private with congressional leaders, particularly those from the opposing party, there's often a heaping helping of bland talk about working together — spiced with the ...
There have been times when gridlock and the inability of politicians to play their games was a good thingWith the near collapse of the financial system in 2008, the Bush Administration, with the Republican party in control of both houses of Congress, ...