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Crawford turns on Texas charm
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| By CAROLYN BARTA / The Dallas Morning News
Posted on 08/10/2002 4:03:03 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing
I think it is hilarious that the press paid to have the gym air-conditioned. Typical East Coast whiny liberal wimps, LOL!
To: McLynnan
the boys are leaving saturday morning, so I might go out there tomorrow anyway... I'll just say you sent me *L*
To: MeeknMing; Howlin; Miss Marple
President Bush drives his pickup truck at his ranch in Crawford, Texas,
on Friday, Aug. 9, 2002, where he is vacationing for nearly a month.
AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper
Western expansion
Jesus Lerma, left, and Mark Dingus, of the White House Communications Agency, hang a new background sign behind the briefing podium at the news media filing center, located in the Crawford Elementary School gym, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002, in Crawford, Texas.
AP Photo/Ken Lambert
Published: Saturday, August 10, 2002
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posted on
08/10/2002 7:01:02 PM PDT
by
deport
To: McLynnan; ValerieUSA
Thanks, I think we've had your heat down here this year althought it's not been triple digits but darn close.
You all may want to be on the look out for October as Chinese leader Jiang Zemin is coming to pay a visit in Crawford. This is a follow up to President Bush's visit to China earlier this year...
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posted on
08/10/2002 7:05:42 PM PDT
by
deport
To: MeeknMing
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posted on
08/10/2002 7:13:18 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: ValerieUSA
Oh yes, mention my name, I'm sure it will unlock doors everywhere, lol. If you go in any of the gift shops would you please check and see if any of them are selling "Western White House" t-shirts? Some of the Dose regulars would like to order them. It's going to be Tuesday or Wednesday before I get the time to run out there.
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posted on
08/10/2002 7:14:14 PM PDT
by
McLynnan
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I'm all for sending hillary to Crawford.
I am sure there's lots of manure for her to shovel.
She needs a taste of what we had to endure for 8 years.
Sorry, I am not often so nasty.
To: MeeknMing
Bump
To: deport; Miss Marple
Do you know, did they call it the "Western White House" last year? I just had a flashback of the 2000 election fiasco. During the month of November, I believe that Miss Marple ended darn near every post with "The Western White House is in Crawford, Texas!"
To: A Citizen Reporter
LOL! Thanks for remembering!
Yes, they did use the logo last year, and I was QUITE happy to see it! Made me feel part of the team!
Have you noticed how nice the pictures by the White House photographer are? I pay attention to who does the shots when captions are available. That guy is really talented!
To: McLynnan; Howlin; Miss Marple
Western Whitehouse items.. t-shirts, etc
Associated Press
President Bush talks to reporters after teeing off on the first hole at the Ridgewood Country Club, early Saturday morning in Waco. Chronicle reporter Rachel Graves, who pulled pool duty Saturday, is at far right.
Talk about complainers......
Early-morning pool play
George W. Bush today referred to his presidency as the "early-morning administration," and it was an accurate characterization.
I left my hotel at 5 a.m., and hundreds of others had to get up similarly early to make it possible for one man to play a round of golf. The press pool - 3 wire service reporters, me, a TV crew, a magazine reporter and several photographers - piled into two vans and went to the entrance to Bush's ranch for a Secret Service security sweep.
A White House stenographer also follows the president everywhere he goes, transcribing his every comment. The transcripts are distributed to the press, so reporters technically do not even need to take notes.
With it still dark out, we were checked with a hand-held metal detector while agents and then a German shepherd went through our belongings. The dog stuck his entire head into my bag and sniffed around, turning on my tape recorder with his snout.
We crammed back into the vans to join the motorcade. As the sun slowly rose, about fifteen cars, including the president's, snaked down desolate prairie roads for the half-hour trip to the golf course. In addition to everyone in the motorcade, scores of police were mobilized to stop traffic, and Secret Service agents swarmed over the golf course at Ridgewood Country Club, near Waco, to secure it. At least one helicopter circled overhead.
When we arrived at the course, the media jumped out of the vans and scrambled after the president to record his every action. Bush, seeming like a remarkably normal guy after all the fuss, yelled inquiries across the grass about one reporter's dog that was hit by a car this week.
We watched Bush tee off, and then he came over to answer questions. The press, still half-asleep at 7 a.m., was slow to come up with any, then asked several about Iraq. Bush made tough statements about the horrors of Saddam Hussein but said little new. In between two bleak statements on Iraq, he paused to compliment his own drive and express eagerness to "chip and putt for a birdie."
I've met Bush before, in South Carolina when he was running for president. Surely he doesn't remember, and yet he exuded a familiarity that made it easy to question him about Iraq, as though I had known him for a long time.
Bush hit the links while we waited in the club house, chatting and writing up the dregs of news from the brief exchange. When he was done, the entire production happened in reverse until Bush was back at the ranch.
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posted on
08/10/2002 7:29:40 PM PDT
by
deport
To: Miss Marple
WHOA it probably way before I join FR
I think WH staffer been lurking on FR back in da day Miss Marple
BTW Miss Marple Yahoo UK News report that Vlad said DA to Dubya plan on Iraq
According to report that came from Interfax news wire Saddam has stinky little hands in Cheynea
SO we doing KGB a favor
To: deport
Thanks for the shopping link.
I left my hotel at 5 a.m., and hundreds of others had to get up similarly early to make it possible for one man to play a round of golf.
This reporter isn't going to last a month, lol!
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08/10/2002 7:36:34 PM PDT
by
McLynnan
To: McLynnan
And she is a Houston Chronicle Reporter ....
Houston Chronicle staff writer Rachel Graves has been assigned to cover President Bush through Aug. 13 during his extended vacation at his Crawford ranch. As she wiles away the hours waiting for news to happen, Graves will update this weblog, providing a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to cover a vacationing president in Central Texas. Got a question or comment about her coverage?
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posted on
08/10/2002 7:44:53 PM PDT
by
deport
To: ValerieUSA
I love your photos. What did you shoot that with?
To: McLynnan
I left my hotel at 5 a.m., and hundreds of others had to get up similarly early to make it possible for one man to play a round of golf. Thankfully Dubya "plays a round of golf." Billy Boy was usually just "playing around."
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posted on
08/10/2002 8:24:55 PM PDT
by
lonestar
To: deport
In between two bleak statements on Iraq, he paused to compliment his own drive and express eagerness to "chip and putt for a birdie." Way to go, Dubya!
To: MeeknMing
That problem was settled by a special badge distributed by the White House that says in big letters, "PRESS FILING CENTER ACCESS." It also features a photo of President Bush driving his pickup and a road sign into Crawford, pop. 706.I love it!
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08/10/2002 8:33:04 PM PDT
by
kayak
To: isthisnickcool
Thanks. I have an Olympus E-10 digital camera - I love it. But now I'm lusting after the new E-20. I'm so fickle... but won't change.
To: Paul Atreides
It would be interesting to see what percent of the vote Crawford casts for the Republican congressional candidate in the fall. I am curious to know if the president's neighbors are voting for Democrat Congressman Chet Edwards.
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