Posted on 06/08/2010 5:24:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
The month of June in 2005 started out with President Bush welcoming President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, to the Oval Office of the White House On June 1st, to President Bush discussing the G8 Summit progress in Africa on June 30th
The quote of the month is from the Address, President Bush gave at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on June 28, 2009 Link
http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d20/gwbushfan1982/President%20bush/Laura%20Bush-%20Oprah/ If someone could correctly post the link for me I would appreciate it!
Thank you! :)
GWB sure had his faults, but, dang if he wasn’t a president - unlike the thug we now have in the White House. Yes, I miss George W.
Great pictures.....thanks for the memories!
ohhhh, fantastic pictures! Thank you, so much!
Pics of W and his family definitely help keep some sanity during these very trying days.
My pleasure
GWB UPDATE . . .
PRESCOTT BUSH, BROTHER, UNCLE TO PRESIDENTS, DIES
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h3CIuN-XF0YrHbQCOPHrXtlcNoKwD9GHTS302
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OBAMA NEEDS TO FIND HIS INNER W.
Now that Obama has picked Bush’s general, he should replicate Bush’s stalwart style.
By Rich Lowry
[Lowry cites a book about the Anbar revolt that sounds quite interesting!]
http://article.nationalreview.com/437142/obama-needs-to-find-his-inner-w/rich-lowry
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LAURA UPDATED HER FACEBOOK PAGE TODAY:
Laura W. Bush: Enjoying my first meeting with the Smithsonian’s African American History & Culture Council in DC today.
http://www.facebook.com/laurawbush
SPEAKING OF FACEBOOK, PRESIDENT BUSH’S FACEBOOK PAGE HAS OVER 178,000 ‘LIKES’:
http://www.facebook.com/laurawbush
THANK YOU for posting photos (and links to photos) of our amazing First Family. The photo of Jenna with the rose in her mouth is hysterical — like father like daughter (they both have such an incredible zeal for life)!!
Thanks Dr. Deb for the links and keeping us informed...I am glad seeing the Bushes out and about but I surely do miss their steady hand on our nation.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, right, addresses the audience while former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld looks on during Rumsfeld's portrait unveiling ceremony at the Pentagon, June 25, 2010.
Rumsfeld Says America is Servicemembers’ Gift to Future"
Excerpt:
America exists and prospers because members of the U.S. armed forces step forward and protect it, former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today. "In a very real sense,” he said, “America is their gift to the future."
“This country – which has treated me so well – exists and prospers because the members of the United States armed forces have volunteered to step forward and protect it,” Rumsfeld said.
Rumsfeld served as the 13th defense secretary from 1975 to 1977 and as the 21st secretary from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest and oldest man to serve as defense secretary.
Both of his official portraits will hang in the Pentagon. The newest, painted by Steven Polson and unveiled today, shows Rumsfeld at his stand-up desk with a picture of first-responders and soldiers unfurling the flag over the still-burning Pentagon on Sept. 12, 2001.
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The former defense secretary spoke about his favorite photo that brightly illustrates what freedom can accomplish:
it is a satellite photo of the Korean peninsula taken at night. The free South Korea is bathed in light. In the communist North, a small glimmer of light is seen around the capital city of Pyongyang – otherwise the country is dark.
“They are exactly the same people north and south, exactly the same resources north and south, but those millions of Koreans who labor in the north work not for their families, but for a regime that enslaves them,” Rumsfeld said.
The United States is free and the people of America are free to make their own choices, he pointed out.
“We can choose to engage the world and strengthen alliances with our friends and our trading relations, deter potential foes and to take the fight to them when necessary,” Rumsfeld said. “Or we can retreat and make the tragic mistake of modeling our country after failing systems.
If we choose the latter, let there be no doubt, we are certain to fail the generations that follow.”
Rumsfeld said it was important to him and his wife, Joyce, that his second official portrait includes the photo of the Pentagon workers unfurling the American flag.
Really, really miss ya, Rummy, and all the grownups!! God bless you.
Here’s the video clip of President Bush speaking in South Korea this week. This is from the Christian Broadcasting Network which was the ONLY media that bothered to cover his visit.
Please watch the video, it’s very moving to hear Bush speak
of God and tell the Korean people to pray for better relations with North Korea.
“Korean Christians Pray for North, South Unity”
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/June/Christian-Koreans-Pray-for-Unity-Between-North-South/
Here’s the video clip of President Bush speaking in South Korea this week. This is from the Christian Broadcasting Network which was the ONLY media that bothered to cover his visit.
Please watch the video, it’s very moving to hear Bush speak
of God and tell the Korean people to pray for better relations with North Korea.
“Korean Christians Pray for North, South Unity”
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/June/Christian-Koreans-Pray-for-Unity-Between-North-South/
Great photos of Rummy, thanks for posting them
“Really, really miss ya, Rummy, and all the grownups!! God bless you.”
Oh, MY! Isn’t that the truth. Probably he didn’t say anything about the current administration, Gen. McChrystal, or the wars in Afghanistan and Arizona, but I would love to hear his opinion off the cuff. Doesn’t he live in Arizona?
Thanks for posting this. It’s nice to see something & someone to admire in the news for a change.
Abolutely love that man. To this day he has never once disappointed me.
GOD BLESS SEC. RUMSFELD!!!
A glimmer of light and truth in this present darkness.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgebushlibrary/sets/72157624010486285/
GWB sitting on his dad's lap
George W. Bush sits on his father's shoulders in New Haven, CT., 10 Apr 47..Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
George H. and Barbara Bush with their son, George W., in New Haven, CT,.April 1947..Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
George W. Bush with his mother, Barbara Bush, father, George H. Bush, and grandparents, Dorothy and Prescott Bush, in Midland, TX, 07 Mar 49.
George W. Bush with his father, George H. Bush, at the commissioning ceremonies for the Scorpion off-shore drilling platform, March 20, 1956
The Bush Family (l to r: George W., George H., Neil, Marvin being held by Barbara, and Jeb), Midland, TX, circa 1957. Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library Courtesy Mrs. Barbara Bush
The Bush Family Spring 1959.Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
The Bush Family attends church in Houston, TX, 1964 (George W. is on the right)Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
George Bush Family in Houston, TX,.1964..Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Bush family photograph, Houston, TX,.September 1964..Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library
Congressman George Bush and family in Washington, DC. 1966.Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library
The George H. W. Bush family in front of the Capital,.circa 1967..Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Bush Family Photo (around 1977 or 1978)Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Vice-President and Mrs. Bush enjoy some early morning fun with their grandchildren (L to R Pierce, Barbara, Jenna, Marshall, Margaret Bush, Jeb Jr., Sam), Walker's Point, Kennebunkport, ME, Aug. 22, 1987.
Vice President Bush enjoys a picnic with his family at Walker's Point, Kennebunkport, ME, Aug. 07, 1988. Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library
Republican National Convention, Aug. 18, 1988. Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library
The adorable Bush kids with their grandparents (The younger Barbara Bush is on the left of Barbara Sr. and Jenna is in the light blue blouse next to George H.W.)
President and Mrs. Bush walk with their grandchildren at Camp David, Sept. 19 1992. Photo Credit: George Bush Presidential Library
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