After President Bush accepted his renomination, his campaign saw a small bounce in the polls, but this was short lived, as Clinton maintained his lead.

As the Watergate scandal heated up in 1973, Nixon asked Bush to become Chairman of the Republican National Committee ; Barbara advised her husband to reject the offer because of the harsh political climate, but he accepted anyway.

McKenna became the Ambassador on March 8 when U. S. President George W. Bush accepted his credentials.

In an interview, he stated: " They ( accepted ) Blair, and I am sure they will accept Bush.

Bush accepted the interjections with good humour, but the Speaker of the House, Neil Andrew, formally " named " Nettle and Brown and they were suspended from the Parliament for 24 hours.

He said that Tareq Aziz had accepted all of Bush's demands, and that " Bush said the war was not inevitable, but we now know that wasn ’ t true.

In this article, Kristof cited as his source a “ former ambassador ” who had traveled to Niger in early 2002 and reported back to the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) and the State Department that the uranium “ allegations were unequivocally wrong and based on forged documents .” Kristof added, " The envoy's debunking of the forgery was passed around the administration and seemed to be accepted — except that President Bush and the State Department kept citing it anyway.

On November 17, 2001, President George W. Bush accepted Mr. Goldin's resignation as NASA administrator.

The vast majority of Barkers Bush is located on private property, however, trespassing has generally been accepted and the public has used the trails extensively for many years.

Vice President George H. W. Bush accepted the endorsement in person.

" Read my lips: no new taxes " is a now-famous phrase spoken by then American presidential candidate George H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention as he accepted the nomination on August 18.

The commission accepted the White House's refusal to give them any information on what President Bush had been told before September 11 ostensibly because it was classified.

" President Bush stated that the Senate's interest in internal White House documents " would undermine a president's ability to receive candid counsel " and that he had " reluctantly accepted " her request.

On the morning of Thursday, October 27, 2005, President Bush " reluctantly " accepted Miers's request to withdraw her nomination.

A second syndicated columnist, Maggie Gallagher, was revealed to have also accepted public funds from the Bush administration.

" Before the elder Bush could reply, the situation was defused by brother Jeb, who took the opportunity to surprise his father with the happy news that George W. had been accepted to Harvard Business School.

Running back Reggie Bush finished his stellar year by winning the Heisman Trophy ( later returned by USC and reclaimed by the Heisman Trophy Trust considering Bush accepted improper benefits while at USC and was ineligible during the 2005 season ), while Leinart finished third in the Heisman voting.

In May 2006, a CNN poll comparing Clinton's job performance with that of his successor, George W. Bush, found that a strong majority of respondents said Clinton outperformed Bush in six different areas questioned.

As a so-called " bleeding-heart conservative ", Kemp was a logical choice for Bush as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, whose job would be to foster public sector and private sector methods to meet the demands of public housing.

" If as president I could have done one thing to have helped the country more ," Mr. Bush told the gathering, " it would have been to do a better job in finding a way, either through speaking out or through raising a moral standard, to strengthen the American family.

In 2001, Coats was reportedly one of George W. Bush ’ s top choices to be Defense Secretary, a job eventually given to Donald Rumsfeld, who had previously served as United States Secretary of Defense.

Frum would later write that when he was first offered the job by chief Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson,

As the title suggests, Frum also discussed how the events of September 11, 2001 redefined the country and the President: " George W. Bush was hardly the obvious man for the job.

In an event he describes as a " fluke ", he was given a job as the chief speechwriter for Vice President Bush.

Early in the campaign, Coverdell's job was to line up Republican senators to endorse Governor Bush instead of Senator John McCain and he succeeded in getting the endorsement of almost every Senate Republican.

The U. S. Attorney for Nevada at time of the investigation was Daniel Bogden, who was one of seven federal prosecutors forced out of his job by the Bush administration in December 2006.

Meehan later recanted his views and said that he believed at that time that Bush had done " an excellent job.

Tripp was a White House employee in the George H. W. Bush administration, and kept her job when Bill Clinton took over in 1993.

Clarke explained that he was a long-time friend of Beers, who had also worked extensively in the government on counterterrorism for Bush and other administrations, and would not give up his friendship simply because his friend had a new job.

* May 10 – Amid calls for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's resignation over Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, President Bush issues a strong statement of support for Rumsfeld, saying that Rumsfeld is " doing a superb job " in the war on terrorism.

After the season, Ruppert offered the job in turn to Fletcher, Donie Bush and Eddie Collins, all of whom declined.

When the Bush transition team approached Lujan about the job in late 1988, he declined to accept it – but changed his mind only after a personal appeal from the president-elect.

After leaving the Interior Department at the expiration of Bush ’ s term, Lujan characterized his job as one of constant tensions.

# Do you believe you could do a better job than President Bush in preventing another 9 / 11-type terrorist attack on the United States?

An article by Ximena Ortiz in the National Interest Online called Cohen's ability to do the job into question and attempted to juxtapose his previous statements on the Bush administration foreign policy with the resulting war in Iraq.

In the winter of 2004 another poll found that only 15 % of Canadians felt that Bush was doing a good job as president.

" I'm having trouble running interference Bush and doing my job.

George Herbert Walker Bush ( S & B 1948 ) would later name his own son Neil Mallon Bush after the man who had given him his first job out of Yale.

As the rest of the British squadron arrives to complete the job, Hornblower and Bush, accompanied by seaman Quist ( James Robertson Justice ), are taken by carriage to Paris to be tried for piracy.

It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.

Speech cards used by President George H. W. Bush at the signing ceremony of the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ) on July 26, 1990.

President Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act into law

* Bush, George H. W., Remarks of President George Bush at the Signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

On December 13, 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States ' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months ' notice before terminating the pact — the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.

In 2009, he was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, and after the 2010 earthquake he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

However, when Bush compromised with Democrats to try to lower Federal deficits, he reneged on his promise not to raise taxes, hurting his approval rating.

When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.

Clinton with former President George H. W. Bush in January 2005

After Hurricane Katrina, Clinton joined with fellow former President George H. W. Bush to establish the Bush-Clinton Tsunami Fund in January 2005, and the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund in October of that year.

The practice of bedecking the May Bush / Dos Bhealtaine with flowers, ribbons, garlands and coloured egg shells is found among the Gaelic diaspora, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions on the East Coast of the United States.

On February 5, 2002, George W. Bush visited the RODS laboratory and used it as a model for a $ 300 million spending proposal to equip all 50 states with biosurveillance systems.

Image: Camp David 29-0054a. gif | George H. W. Bush meets with his National Security advisors in the Laurel Lodge conference room on August 4, 1990.

Image: Camp David 4 p37126-25a-515h. jpg | George W. Bush meets with his advisors at Camp David on January 17, 2004, while preparing for his State of the Union address.

Image: CAMPDAVIDIRAQ. jpg | From Camp David, Vice President Dick Cheney and members of the Interagency Team on Iraq participate in a video teleconference with President George W. Bush in Baghdad, Iraq.

Image: Georgebushjuly2007campdavid. jpg | President George W. Bush and Chief of Staff Josh Bolten walk together with the President's dog Barney at Camp David, July 21, 2007.

* Dendromecon rigida, Bush poppy ( a fire follower with four petaled yellow flowers )

" Consistent with this tradition, the 2007 version of the current 15th edition was " dedicated by permission to the current President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II ," while the 2010 version of the current 15th edition is " dedicated by permission to Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Lady Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification ; Pat Nixon encouraged volunteerism and traveled extensively abroad ; Betty Ford supported women's rights ; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities ; Nancy Reagan founded the Just Say No drug awareness campaign ; Barbara Bush promoted literacy ; Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reform the healthcare system in the U. S .; and Laura Bush supported women's ' rights groups and encouraged childhood literacy.

Members of the 2003 Florida Marlins championship team with George W. Bush | President Bush after their win.