In the 1980s, the Reagan administration pushed for vouchers, as did the George W. Bush administration in the initial education-reform proposals leading up to the No Child Left Behind Act.

With his engine afire, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft ; the other man's parachute did not open.

The Italian Army did not take part in combat operations of the 2003 Second Gulf War, dispatching troops only after May 1, 2003 – when major combat operations were declared over by the U. S. President George W. Bush.

Sununu opposed it at first as did most of the Cabinet, but in August 1990 Sununu, at the urging of United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, encouraged President Bush to endorse Kemp's Economic Empowerment Task Force.

After Bush won and Kemp left Congress for the Cabinet, the two did not really cross paths again until 1996, when Kemp endorsed Dole's opponent Forbes on the eve of the New York Primary in March.

Shortly after moving to Washington State, Lawrence did a series of five paintings on the westward journey of African American pioneer George Washington Bush.

Bush states that " technical difficulties of all sorts have been ignored ," but that, " also ignored are means as yet unknown which may come any day to accelerate technical progress as violently as did the advent of the thermionic tube.

The supervisor had just seen a demonstration of the World Wide Web and suggested it could be improved and better conformed to the memex described by Vannevar Bush if links did not have to be manually inserted and instead one could follow a link simply by using the words themselves.

Michael Buckland, in an article published in 1992, suggested that the memex was severely flawed because Bush did not thoroughly understand information science and had a bad opinion of indices and classification schemes: " Bush thought that the creation of arbitrary associations between individual records was the basis of memory, so he wanted ' mem ( ory -) ex ', or ' Memex instead of index '.

Buckland concludes: " We speculate that Bush did not independently originate the notion of an electronic microfilm selector, although that was possible.

" Bush was invited but did not attend the service because he was en route to Springfield, Illinois, to dedicate the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

U. S. officials attempted to maintain a conciliatory line with Iraq, indicating that while George H. W. Bush and James Baker did not want force used, they would not take any position on the Iraq – Kuwait boundary dispute and did not want to become involved.

The Bush administration did not acknowledge the implementation of the COG plan until March 1, 2002.

In an interview with metalsucks. com John Bush said, " we just did these shows in Australia that were really fun.

The single generated welcome publicity following their time out of the limelight, as did a small sold-out tour scheduled around the single release, the final night of which was at Shepherds Bush Empire as part of MTV's " Five Night Stand " festival.

It has also been suggested that the " compassionate conservatism " espoused by President Bush during his 2000 presidential campaign was a form of conservative communitarian thinking, though he too did not implement it in his policy program.

Perot did not support President George H. W. Bush and vigorously opposed the United States involvement in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War.

The last two presidential elections where Clark County did not vote for the national winner were 1968, when it voted for Humphrey over Nixon, and 1988, when it voted for Dukakis over Bush.

" Bush did in fact win re-election, but not in a landslide.

Lucas and IRI, a nonprofit political group backed by powerful Republicans close to the Bush administration, did more than talk.

Bush woke up twenty minutes later, but did not resume his presidential powers and duties until 9: 24 a. m. EDT after the president's doctor, Richard Tubb, conducted an overall examination.

Following the assassination attempt on President Reagan on March 30, 1981, Vice President George H. W. Bush did not assume the role of acting president under Section 4.

Bush did not invoke Section 4, because he was on a plane returning from Texas.

The Bush administration explicitly rejected the protocol in 2001.

In the book, the president is specifically George H. W. Bush, while in the movie the president is unnamed ; the fake war operation is explicitly Desert Storm, and the war actually occurs, instead of being entirely falsified.

On the 17th, speeches by Bush and UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw explicitly declared the period of diplomacy to be over, as declared by Resolution 1441's prohibition on giving Iraq new opportunities for compliance, and that no further authorization from the UN would be sought before an invasion of Iraq ( see 2003 invasion of Iraq ).

In it, he advocated four ideas: embrace the concept explicitly within the peace movement as an inspirational goal and a counter to the " first superpower " idea promoted by the Bush administration, continue to develop blogging and other means of linking the community globally, find ways to influence first superpower institutions including international institutions and international law, and continue to develop reflective personal consciousness so as to be able to lead from love rather than fear.

Although a vein of social and political humor runs through even his earliest work, Bern's songs became more explicitly political during the 2004 US presidential election campaign, with songs such as " Bush Must Be Defeated " and " President " highlighting his sometimes surreal political takes.

On 15 October 2008, it was reported that the Bush administration had issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in June 2003 and June 2004 explicitly endorsing waterboarding and other torture techniques against al-Qaeda suspects.

Much early criticism of the initiative also explicitly linked PSI to other international activities of the globally controversial George W. Bush administration, including namely the War on Terror, invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and a general international perception of US unilateralism outside of United Nations frameworks.

" As the 2004 election neared, the widows criticized Bush for the failure to enact the recommendations of the commission ; many interpreted this as an endorsement of Bush's opponent John Kerry ; the New York Times reported, " In a statement clearly meant to influence voters in next week's election, the group did not explicitly endorse Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, but said Mr. Bush had ' allowed members of his own party to derail the legislative process.

Most of these do not explicitly state the sexual or nonsexual nature of relationships ; the fact that homosexuality was taboo in Western European cultures at the time means that some sexual relationships may be hidden, but at the same time the rareness of romantic friendship in modern times means that references to nonsexual relationships may be misinterpreted, as alleged by Faderman, Coontz, Anthony Rotundo, Douglas Bush, and others.

Reggie Bush was the first NFL athlete to endorse the product.

" In 2004, he broke with party ranks to endorse John Kerry in his bid to unseat George W. Bush as president of the United States.

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.

Harris failed to secure the endorsement of Jeb Bush, who publicly stated that she could not win ; the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, which had supported her in her House campaigns, did not endorse her in this race.

President George W. Bush, running for reelection in 2004, visited the NAE convention at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., via satellite link and told the delegates, " You cannot endorse me, but I endorse you.

It has never endorsed a Democrat for president, and has only failed to endorse a Republican presidential candidate three times — twice during the Franklin D. Roosevelt era and once again in 2004, when it refused to endorse George W. Bush for reelection.

Segal was chairman and founder of the federal political action committee Greens for Impact which helped steer the Green Party to endorse David Cobb rather than Ralph Nader, and ran a national media and direct-mail campaign in 2004, encouraging Greens and progressives in swing states to fight the re-election of George W. Bush by voting for John Kerry, and promoting electoral reform.

The Times-Tribune endorsed George W. Bush in 2000, but did not endorse anyone in 2004.

In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, he declined to endorse the Bush administration ’ s policy and warned that it was likely to fail: " we are wielding power without liberalism, which will turn out to be no power at all.