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A day in the life of President and Mrs. Bush (5/21/05): many photos
WhiteHouse.gov; Yahoo News Photos ^ | 5/21/05

Posted on 05/21/2005 2:18:17 PM PDT by Wolfstar

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: While his wife was traveling in the Middle East, President Bush addressed the 2005 commencement at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., today. Bush gave his first graduation speech of the year addressing the Christian liberal arts college.

PRESIDENTIAL SCHEDULE: White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan gave the commencement speech at the University of Texas, his alma mater, on Friday. So no week-ahead schedule was announced. (If I find anything while scanning the WH website tomorrow, I'll post it on the Sunday thread.)

The President will welcome German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to the White House for a meeting and working lunch on June 27, 2005.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: From the President's commencement speech at Calvin College today.

The immigrants who founded Calvin College came to America for the freedom to worship, and they built this great school on the sturdy ground of liberty. They saw in the American "experiment" the world's best hope for freedom -- and they weren't the only ones excited by what they saw. In 1835, a young civil servant and aristocrat from France, named Alexis de Tocqueville, would publish a book about America that still resonates today.

The book is called "Democracy in America," and in it this young Frenchman said that the secret to America's success was our talent for bringing people together for the common good. De Tocqueville wrote that tyrants maintained their power by "isolating" their citizens -- and that Americans guaranteed their freedom by their remarkable ability to band together without any direction from government. The America he described offered the world something it had never seen before: a working model of a thriving democracy where opportunity was unbounded, where virtue was strong, and where citizens took responsibility for their neighbors.

Tocqueville's account is not just the observations of one man -- it is the story of our founding. It is not just a description of America at a point in time -- it is an agenda for our time. Our Founders rejected both a radical individualism that makes no room for others, and the dreary collectivism that crushes the individual. They gave us instead a society where individual freedom is anchored in communities. And in this hopeful new century, we have a great goal: to renew this spirit of community and thereby renew the character and compassion of our nation.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; calvincollege; commencement; egypt; firstlady; georgew; israel; jordan; kingabdullah; laura; middleeast; mountnemo; president
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To: mystery-ak
I bet the VP had a good chuckle about it too
181 posted on 05/21/2005 6:04:43 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: Wolfstar

She's grown... isn't she a cutie! What a great picture!


182 posted on 05/21/2005 6:05:29 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: snugs

Howdy, I was watching the White House Photographers Dinner


183 posted on 05/21/2005 6:05:38 PM PDT by MJY1288 ( By Comparison...."Dingy" Harry Reid makes Tom Daschle look like a Statesman)
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To: Fudd Fan

Im still laughing over the Cheney bit....someone at the WH likes Monty Python..


184 posted on 05/21/2005 6:05:47 PM PDT by mystery-ak (If you must curse, use your name!.......God)
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To: snugs

That was a hilarious slide show.


185 posted on 05/21/2005 6:05:54 PM PDT by Lemondropkid31 (pending)
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To: Fudd Fan
He has got a wicked sense of humour I bet he was a hoot at college
186 posted on 05/21/2005 6:05:57 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: mystery-ak

Y'know how we say we can't understand how anyone cannot like W - I think the photographers in that room who might be of a more liberal bent, had to laugh in spite of themselves. W did get a standing-O


187 posted on 05/21/2005 6:05:59 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (red, red voter in a blue, blue state)
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To: MJY1288

So was I (through the computer - cannot get Cspan on the TV)


188 posted on 05/21/2005 6:06:40 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: Wolfstar

"President George W. Bush greets members of the 50th anniversary class (now elderly) of Calvin College. "


Now elderly??? No, I think they are probably only about 71 years old!!!!


189 posted on 05/21/2005 6:07:18 PM PDT by Betteboop
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To: snugs

Does anyone else think that W affects his Texas drawl at will? He sounded like a Yankee tonight!


190 posted on 05/21/2005 6:08:00 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (red, red voter in a blue, blue state)
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To: mystery-ak

It was a great skit


191 posted on 05/21/2005 6:08:59 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: snugs

I think W's spoof on his parents were also a riot.


192 posted on 05/21/2005 6:09:14 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Hey Chirac, Call Germany Next Time. They Know The Way To Paris)
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To: mystery-ak

"That was so funny....what a treat.."


That was FUN . . . our President is quite the comedian (although that fall on his bike looked nasty)!


193 posted on 05/21/2005 6:09:38 PM PDT by DrDeb
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To: DrDeb

I think that was the fall that he scruffed up his face..


194 posted on 05/21/2005 6:10:49 PM PDT by mystery-ak (If you must curse, use your name!.......God)
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To: mystery-ak

I bet it was . . . it certainly was a 'header'!!!


195 posted on 05/21/2005 6:11:39 PM PDT by DrDeb
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To: DrDeb

Eric is a married man by now...I wonder how OWF is doing?...


196 posted on 05/21/2005 6:12:53 PM PDT by mystery-ak (If you must curse, use your name!.......God)
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To: Fudd Fan
I think it is a case of one speaks appropriate to the occasion when in Texas I think his Texas accent is more pronounced but here where he is giving a speech that is going to be heard all over the country it is not so noticeable. I think you tend to speak how those are speaking around you.

I notice I do something similar at work I talk differently if I am talking to a college than if I am talking to a customer or answering the phone.
197 posted on 05/21/2005 6:15:01 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: SoCalPol
It was brilliant I loved the photo of them holding the umbrellas, umbrellas do seem to feature big time in the Bush family
198 posted on 05/21/2005 6:15:48 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: mystery-ak

I think you are right I can remember seeing that clip before on FNC and then the next time we saw a photo of him you could see the scuffs on his face


199 posted on 05/21/2005 6:17:09 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: snugs

I liked the photo of the "4 presidents" - the distance between Clinton & Carter, is to make room for JEB! LOL, we can dream!


200 posted on 05/21/2005 6:17:41 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (red, red voter in a blue, blue state)
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