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After skipping Ground Zero event with Obama, Bush made three paid speeches

By Peter H. Stone

Bush skipped Ground Zero event but gave three paid speeches in the next week

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"… still troubling.“It’s one thing to stay out of the public realm, which George Bush has said he wants to do,” Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Pr …"

Overnight guests at governor's mansion added $2.2 million to Bush campaign

By Nathaniel Heller

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2000 — Sixty of George W. Bush's overnight guests at the Texas Governor's Mansion have collectively given and raised m

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"… ft’s office told the Center that the senator is a longtime friend of the Bush family, and argued that the visit might have had more to do more with Ashcroft’ …"

Opening of Bush library a reminder of administration's 'Broken Government'

Opening of new presidential library a reminder of administration's 'Broken Government'
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The buying of the presidential debates

By Josh Israel

This year’s presidential debates will be brought to you by beer, technology outsourcing, and bottled water, among others. The Commission on

Excerpts from this story referencing "George Bush":

"… explanation of what national sponsorship actually entails).Photo Courtesy George Bush Presidential Library and MuseumAs we examined at length in the Center’s …"

Where are the watchdogs?

By John Solomon

Faced with record deficits and expanding federal responsibilities, politicians from President Barack Obama on down routinely talk about the

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"… tance, has been without its chief watchdog since early 2008 when President George Bush’s inspector general appointee resigned after a controversy inv …"

Bush, Gore recount forces can raise unlimited cash without disclosure to public

By Josey Ballenger

WASHINGTON, November 16, 2000 — As the Republican and Democratic parties have frantically sought private money since Election Day to fund th

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"… d George Terwilliger III, a former deputy attorney general under President George Bush; Theodore Olson, former head of the White House Office of Legal Counsel un …"

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Cheney led Halliburton to feast at federal trough

By Knut Royce and Nathaniel Heller

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2000 — Under the guidance of Richard Cheney, a get-the-government-out-of-my-face conservative, Halliburton Company ove

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"… ors of power that stems from his days as defense secretary under President George Bush. If he becomes vice president, according to a Halliburton official who adm …"

Journalism with teeth

By Philip Knightley

LONDON, July 17, 1999 — Western media follow a depressingly familiar formula when it comes to the preparation of a nation for conflict....

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"… start because of the instant images that Hitler’s name provokes. So when George Bush Sr likened Iraq’s takeover of Kuwait with the Nazi blitzkrieg in Europe …"

Interview: Unprecedented opportunity

Rami Khouri, a veteran editor and reporter who currently serves as editor-at-large for the Lebanese English language newspaper, The Daily St

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"… is freedom promotion policy. And also, I think, legitimacy is a big issue. George Bush talks in terms of the United States having a national mission to promote f …"

"… ch of the last century. But more troubling is the recent language in which George Bush says that this mission is actually divinely mandated, that the divine powe …"

"… us what he or she has in store for the United States. And in any case, if George Bush is inspired by that, which is a very moving inspiration, it doesn’t have …"

"… sue has to be looked at carefully.And finally the issue of relevance. When George Bush talks of freedom and democracy, he’s really talking about personal freed …"

Right on the money: The George W. Bush profile

By Charles Lewis

On January 30, 1990, Platt's Oilgram News, a respected trade journal of the petroleum industry, reported that a subsidiary of a small, Dalla

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"… ial campaign. “In Greenwich,” he told an interviewer last year, “the Bush family are is absolute tops.”Investing in Arbusto, however, turned out to be th …"

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