A day in the life of President Bush (4/16/05): photos

WhiteHouse.gov; Yahoo News Photos ^ | 4/16/05

[Wolfstar]

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President and First Lady are spending the weekend at Camp David, and there are no planned public appearances. President and Mrs. Bush reported total income last year of $784,219 and paid $207,307 in federal income taxes, according to documents released by the White House on April 15, 2005. Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne reported $1.3 million in taxable income, the White House said.

THE WEEK AHEAD:

Monday, the President will go to Columbia, South Carolina, where he'll make remarks on strengthening Social Security.

Tuesday, the President will go to Springfield, Illinois, where he will tour the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and then make remarks at the dedication of the library and museum. Also on Tuesday, the Vice President will deliver the keynote address at the Oklahoma City National Memorial ceremony to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building there.

Wednesday, the President makes remarks to the 2005 National and State Teachers of the Year in the Rose Garden. And then he'll make remarks at the U.S.-Hispanic Chambers of Commerce Legislative Conference. Those remarks will be on energy, as I mentioned. The President will then present the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy to the United States Naval Academy football team in the East Room.

Thursday, GWB will make remarks on strengthening Social Security to the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America in Washington. He'll also make remarks at the President's Environmental Youth Awards in the East Garden.

Friday, the President will participate in a service project. And then he'll make remarks on Earth Day. And both those events are in Townsend, Tennessee. Then he goes on to the ranch in Crawford, where he'll remain for the weekend.

THE FOLLOWING WEEK: On Monday the 25th, the President will meet with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the ranch. And then on Tuesday, he will go to Galveston to participate in a roundtable on strengthening Social Security. This event had been postponed because of the Pope's funeral.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: From the Presidential Radio Address, 4/16/05:

American families and small businesses across the country are feeling the pinch from rising gas prices. If you're trying to meet a family budget or a payroll, even a small change at the pump can have a big impact.

America's prosperity depends on reliable, affordable and secure sources of energy. And today our energy needs are growing faster than our domestic sources are able to provide. Demand for electricity has grown more than 17 percent in the past decade, while our transmission ability lags behind. And we continue to import more than one-half of our domestic oil supply.

Every source of power that we use today started with the power of human invention, and those sources have served us well for decades. Now it's time to apply our knowledge and technology to keep the American Dream alive in this new century. There is nothing America cannot achieve when we put our mind to it. And I urge Congress to work out its differences and pass an energy bill that will help make America safer and more prosperous for the years to come.

[Wolfstar]

Snugs, that photo of Spotty is gorgeous. You have a knack for finding wonderful photos the rest of us miss. That photo of her is a keeper for sure.

[snugs]

I thought you might like it I came across it quite by accident I just typed Spot photograph on the search option on the White House Website and it was I think the first photo on the list.

She was one beautiful dog and I am certain will always retain a special place in the Bush Family and the nation as the dog who was born in the White House and returned their at the end of her life. I am certain this will be Presidential trivia quiz question for the rest of our lives.

[snugs]

I agree he does not need a diary etc to write such a book as there is much already out there that he could use for historical backup to his own memories.

I think maybe though by what he has said, I cannot remember when or where is was and to who, but it was to the question of whether there would be a book, it was an indication that he did not want to write one or even commission one to be written about him.

I think it was really an excuse the thing about never keeping a diary though he may also have been giving a signal to the people that he has worked with and for that they should have not fear of him doing a dirt digging exposay of their lives both public or private in the near or far future.

As Mary Cheney is now writing a book about last year's campaign maybe he will allow her to write one about him and his life at least then it would be someone he could trust implicitly to write only what he wanted and though his wife is an author he may feel it would not be correct for her to do it but a daughter maybe that is different.

Only time will tell though but like you I hope so because there is so little written about him all I have been able to find it a book aimed at young people nothing really for adults apart from lies and vitriol.

[Wolfstar]

I am certain will always retain a special place in the Bush Family and the nation as the dog who was born in the White House and returned their at the end of her life.

Yes, that's for sure. As the only presidential pet to be born in the WH under one president, leave, and then return with another president, she is definitely going to be part of WH lore forever. Well deserved, too. She was so devoted to GWB -- and he to her -- that their relationship even touched foreign leaders who visited in the years before her death.

[Wolfstar]

Only time will tell though but like you I hope so because there is so little written about him.

Hopefully, as their time in office draws to a close, the VP will come to realize he has a duty to history to at least leave a record of 9/11 and it's immediate aftermath. You and I both know he is a reserved and very private man. Nevertheless, he and GWB already belong to history. I would like the historical record to include their own first-hand accounts rather than just 2nd hand accounts from other sources.

[JustaCowgirl]

You've made a very compelling case for Dick Cheney writing his memoirs, Wolfstar. As you say, if for nothing else than the events of 9/11 from his viewpoint, it would be worth it. But he has many other compelling stories and perspectives that would be of interest in American history, I've no doubt of that.

I think Rumsfeld's autobiography would be pretty interesting, too. Hope he writes one.

[snugs]

Christmas 2002 - Adorning the Entry Hall mantel are the pets of President George W. Bush and Laura Bush. The Bushes' cat, India "Willie" Bush, and Spot, their English Springer Spaniel, have been part of the Bush pet clan for more than a decade. Barney Bush, a Scottish terrier joined in 2000.

[Wolfstar]

I think Rumsfeld's autobiography would be pretty interesting, too.

Whether or not they just do memoirs of the period, or full autobiographies, I think GWB, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld owe it to history to write something about the 9/11 period and its aftermath. I would include Colin Powell, but he's already done a book. I would also like to see a book from John Ashcroft. The other principal at the time was George Tenet, but I don't trust him to tell the truth.

I was disappointed in Ari Fleisher's book, because he focused on his relationship with the WH press corps. With all due respect to Ari, there were far more important things going on during his time in the WH than his daily exchanges with the press corps.

[Wolfstar]

Those models of Willy, Spot and Barney are darling. The WH staff and volunteers do such a great job every year decorating for the holidays.

[snugs]

I like the ones on the gingerbread house as well from 2001

[JustaCowgirl]

Ultimately, I think Condoleeza Rice should and will write an autobiography. It's too soon now, the most compelling part of her history may be yet to be written! (I hope, I hope, I hope).

Dr. Rice was not at the center of 9/11 though. Dick Cheney's position on that incredible and awful day is unique. As you say, he needs to write at the least a very detailed memoir of that day in the White House, and perhaps the few days immediately following.

He's a modest man, but he was at the center of the world on that day and performed magnificently. As you say, the world deserves to know exactly what went through his mind, what he did and what he thought about it on reflection.

[snugs]

One does wonder what went through his mind that day

[snugs]

That photograph of him coming back to the White house on 12th September 2001 is so moving what must have been going through his mind on the events of the last few days.

[Mudboy Slim]

"W's Promise!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "The Promise")

Sultan's workin' fer Victory...the BigMan works downtown...
CM works in a rock and roll band,
Lookin' for that diff'rence-makin' sound!!
We've gotta li'l job up in DeeCeeTown...
We're Right, THAT I know!!
Some nights, I FReep with Black's judges...some nights, I write songs...
We'll follow our dreams just like those RATS do way up on TeeVee!!
We'll Whup RATS' Challengers 'til Left's Benign...
Screw the Sosh'lists' and DemonRATS' FReaks!!
Lib'rals' Promise's been broken...DemRATS ain't gonna git MUD's Dreams!!

Folks, we won't haveta challenge Left by ourselves...
Righteous folks got somethin' that we'll embolden!!
I lived a secret...I should'a kept to myself!!
But I got drunk one night and I smoked it...
All our lives, WE Fight Fer Right...
The Fight that Mankind must ALWAYS Win!!
Every day, it just seems hard to believe...
The LIES RATS're believing in!!
Lib'rals're DO-O-OLTS!!! Yo, FReepers, you are so Right!!
Clinton's a HO-O-O!! SlickWillie's Lyin' and Slick Righteous Shall Smite!!

Right won big once off the Normandy coast...
But somehow FRench fergot our loss!!
It's TIME Right fights like we wuz makin' up fer broken spirits...
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Lib'rals' promise's been broken...RATS Defend TREASON!!
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Fight when the TRUTH is spoken and the RATS say, "NO JUSTICE!!
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'Cuz when the LeftWing hath Broken...We'll Defend Our Righteous Home!!
FReepin' Fer the Soldiers Who'll Liberate Iraq!!
Lib'rals are DO-O-OLTS!!...RATS love Big Guv'ment with all its big schemes!!
Save yer SO-O-OULS!!...Left is mired in an indelible stain!!
DemRATS're DO-O-OLTS!!! Yo, FReepers, we are so Right!!
Clinton's a HO-O-O!! SlickWillie's Lyin' and Slick Righteous Shall Smite!!

Mudboy Slim (03/19/2003)

[JustaCowgirl]

Eleanor, what are the details on that photo (i.e. when and where was it taken, and under what circumstances?). It looks like the window of a plane. Was he coming back to the White House by plane on Sept 12? If so, that implies that he was taken out of the DC area on Sept 11, perhaps after GWB arrived back?

[snugs]

The photograph comes from the White House Website "Inside the Vice President's Office" and the caption is

Vice President Dick Cheney looks out the window of Marine Two, the Vice President's helicopter, as he returns to the White House from an undisclosed location Sept. 12, 2001.

So he obviously was taken to this location when GWB returned to the White House in order to protect the line of succession should there be an attack on the White House.

[snugs]

See you later got a few chores to do hope to catch you on tonight's dose later.

[Wolfstar]

Beware of Barney. LOL!

[snugs]

Beware of Barney. LOL!

Well he did have a reputation for snapping peoples heels when he younger LOL

[Pippin]

The thread will be a bit late, I have to do it over again because I accidently deleted it when I was checking out my facts.

thank you for your patience!

EMBARRASSING!