On February 26, Bush issued a formal letter of apology to Cardinal John Joseph O ' Connor of New York for failing to denounce Bob Jones University's history of anti-Catholic statements.

President George H. W. Bush issued a memorandum on November 30, 1992 to heads of executive departments and agencies establishing the current administrative relationship between the federal government and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

According to two consecutive Bush Administration President's Task Force Reports, the latest of which was issued on December 21, 2007 Puerto Rico is an unincorporated organized territory of the United States, subject to the plenary powers of the United States government.

President George W. Bush took the unusual step of publicly opposing the policy before the court issued a ruling.

It was formally scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2010 in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued on January 14, 2004 in his Vision for Space Exploration.

" Both evangelists came under attack from President George W. Bush for their statements, for which Falwell later issued an apology.

On the date of his inauguration, January 20, 1989, President Bush issued NSD ( 1 providing the charter for NSC administration.

The National Security Strategy issued on September 17, 2002 was released in the midst of controversy over the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war which is contained therein.

Bush did not grant the waiver and in 2002, Davis issued an executive order reversing his earlier executive order.

Because of the extraordinary nature and argued urgency of the case, the U. S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Bush v. Gore on December 12, less than a day after hearing oral argument.

Executive Order 13233, drafted by Alberto R. Gonzales and issued by George W. Bush on November 1, 2001 is used to limit the FOIA by restricting access to the records of former presidents.

In October 2004, Bush said of Duelfer ’ s analysis: " The chief weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, has now issued a comprehensive report that confirms the earlier conclusion of David Kay that Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there.

Using the authorization granted to him by Congress, on 13 November 2001, President Bush issued a Presidential Military Order: " Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism " which allowed " individuals ... to be detained, and, when tried, to be tried for violations of the laws of war and other applicable laws by military tribunals ", where such individuals are a member of the organization known as al Qa ' ida ; or has conspired or committed acts of international terrorism, or have as their aim to cause, injury to or adverse effects on the United States, its citizens, national security, foreign policy, or economy.

On 9 June 2002 President Bush issued an order to Secretary Rumsfeld to detain Padilla as an " enemy combatant ".

On May 22, 2001, President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13213 which banned rough diamond importation from Liberia into the United States.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

World leaders, including Kofi Annan, President Bush, and the President of the European Union issued statements of condemnation.

Bush, issued the London Declaration on a transformed NATO.

On June 9, 2002, two days before District Court Judge Michael Mukasey was to issue a ruling on the validity of continuing to hold Padilla under the material witness warrant, President George Bush issued an order to Secretary Rumsfeld to detain Padilla as an " enemy combatant ," and Padilla was transferred to a military brig in South Carolina without any notice to his attorney or family.

Also in 2004, the scientific advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists issued a report, Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science which charged the following: " A growing number of scientists, policy makers, and technical specialists both inside and outside the government allege that the current Bush administration has suppressed or distorted the scientific analyses of federal agencies to bring these results in line with administration policy.

" Later that day she issued a request for federal assistance and USD $ 9 million in aid to President George W. Bush, which stated, "... I have determined that this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments, and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a disaster.

FEMA issued a statement dated August 27, that President Bush authorized the allocation of federal resources, " following a review of FEMA's analysis of the state's request for federal assistance.

The report also found that " exposure to either newspaper was weakly linked to a movement away from the Bush administration and Republicans.

In Science, The Endless Frontier, his 1945 report to the President of the United States, Bush called for an expansion of government support for science, and he pressed for the creation of the National Science Foundation.

Operation TIPS, where the last part is an acronym for the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, was a domestic intelligence-gathering program designed by President George W. Bush to have United States citizens report suspicious activity.

President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair met in the Azores for an " emergency summit " over the weekend of March 15 – 16, 2003, after which Bush declared that, despite Blix's report, " diplomacy had failed " to compel Iraq to comply with UN Resolution inspection requirements, and stated his intention to use military force to attack Iraq in what was, according to the Bush administration, compliance with the threat of " serious consequences " in UN 1441.

The SEC report read, " In light of the facts uncovered, it would be difficult to establish that, even assuming ( Mr .) Bush possessed material nonpublic information, he acted with sentience or intent to defraud ".

; 1945: Vannevar Bush — head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, intimately connected with the Manhattan Project, and personal acquaintance of the President — was asked by President Roosevelt in 1944 to write a report on what should be done in the postwar to further foster government commitment to science and technology.

The U. S. National Academy of Sciences, both in its 2002 report to President George W. Bush, and in later publications, has strongly endorsed evidence of an average global temperature increase in the 20th century .< ref name = NA_brief >

Although President Bush described nations supporting him as the " coalition of the willing ", the report concluded that it was more accurately described as a " coalition of the coerced.

" According to the report, most nations supporting Bush " were recruited through coercion, bullying, and bribery.

Rick Piltz from the U. S. Climate Change Science Program, blew the whistle on a White House official who ignored majority scientific opinion to edit a climate change report (" Our Changing Planet ") to reflect the Bush administration's view that the problem was unlikely to exist.

Under Whitman's direction as the first director of the EPA under the Bush administration, in 2001 the EPA produced a report detailing the expected effects of global warming in each of the states in the United States.

The report was dismissed by President Bush who called it the work of " the bureaucracy.

* Bush Spells Out ' LA Terror Plot '— Feb 09 2006 report from the BBC

After the House refused to go along with the proposed budget action, the Senate agreed to restore the money but insisted on a review committee, appointed by Senate President John McKay, Feeney, and governor Jeb Bush, to evaluate all of Harris's expenditures on international affairs since July 1, 1999, and produce a report.

* July 29, 2005: Bush plans 50th ranch trip in five years, an Associated Press report published in USA Today.

Fareed Zakaria, a Newsweek columnist and editor of Newsweek International, attended a secret meeting on November 29, 2001, with a dozen policy makers, Middle East experts and members of influential policy research organizations that produced a report for President George W. Bush and his cabinet outlining a strategy for dealing with Afghanistan and the Middle East in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.

Mr. Zakaria was not told that the meeting would produce a report for the Bush administration, nor did his name appear on the report.

At a news conference with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Washington on 6 December 2006, President George W. Bush commented the Iraq Study Group's bipartisan report assessing the current situation of the US-led Iraq War and making policy recommendations.

President Bush said he would not accept every recommendation by the ISG panel but promised that he would take the report seriously.

The Bush administration left the findings out of the 2004 annual budget report published in February 2003.