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At the White House, the president met with current and former Iraqi citizens, victims of Saddam Hussein's regime. Laura Bush continues her African visit (with her daughter, Barbara). She criticized Senator Clinton for suggesting that the Republican-controlled House is run like a plantation where dissenting voices are ignored. "It's a ridiculous comment," Mrs. Bush told reporters when asked about the remark. She headed home after reaffirming the U.S. commitment to help Nigeria treat AIDS patients and stem the spread of HIV. She said she hoped that "one day an entire generation" will be free of the disease that has ravaged...

Today President Bush met with Tom Bock, the national commander of the American Legion in the Oval Office, as well as John Sommer, executive director of the American Legion's Washington office and Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He also met in the Oval Office with Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt to discuss key elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. First Lady, Laura and daughter Barbara were in Ghana today, where Mrs. Bush addressed an audience at the Accra Teacher Training College in Accra, Ghana, to launch the African Education Initiative Textbooks Program. They also visited with patients at...

MONROVIA, Liberia - Africa's first elected female head of state Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in Monday as war-battered Liberia's new president, promising a "fundamental break" with the West African nation's violent past and pledging to rebuild. With U.S. Navy warships offshore for the first time since the civil war's end two years ago, and first lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on hand in a show of support, the moment was met with thunderous applause from thousands of guests. "We know that your vote was a vote for change, a vote for peace, security ... and...

By Bill Sammon THE WASHINGTON TIMES January 17, 2006 MONROVIA, Liberia -- First lady Laura Bush yesterday rejected Democratic claims that Republicans are mired in a "culture of corruption" and said she'd be "glad" to campaign for Republican candidates in the fall. "It isn't true," Mrs. Bush said of the "culture of corruption" charges in an exclusive interview with The Washington Times while here for the inauguration of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as president of Liberia. Mrs. Bush offered her star power to Republican candidates after saying she did not know how the Democrats' accusations will affect the congressional elections in November....

As part of celebrating Martin Lurther King Day the President Viewed the Emancipation Proclamation at the National Archives Later in the day he attended and spoke at a "Let Freedom Ring" Celebration at the Kennedy Center which honoured the late Rosa Parks with the John Thompson, Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award. The President honoured Martin Lurther King at this event. The first lady along with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are heading the official delegation to the inauguration of Liberia's first woman president. Also accompany the first lady on this trip is daughter Barbra Bush. For photos of their...

MONROVIA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday Washington could not deal "lightly" with al Qaeda in Pakistan but promised to address Islamabad's concerns after a U.S. attack on a Pakistani village. (snip) Speaking to reporters en route to Liberia, Rice declined to provide any specific details on Friday's attack but she said the Pakistani-Afghan border had been "lawless" for some time and was a very difficult area. "Pakistani forces are operating there and trying to take control and we are trying to help but I don't have anything on the specific situation (Friday's air...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President arrived back at the White House from Camp David this afternoon, as his wife and daughter arrived safely in Ghana on their first leg of a visit to Africa. Along with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on Monday they will head the official delegation to the inauguration of Liberia's first woman president. In Texas, the President's father, former President GHW Bush, was on hand to christen the USS San Antonio, the first in the Navy's new class of amphibious landing ships. The former president was the keynote speaker. Navy Commissions USS San Antonio...

ACCRA, Ghana — First lady Laura Bush said Sunday that the U.S. government is right to eavesdrop on Americans with suspected ties to terrorists and that President Bush worries that revelations about the domestic spying program will cripple efforts to foil terrorists. "I think the American people expect the United States government and the president to do what they can to make sure there's not an attack by foreign terrorists," Mrs. Bush said just before landing here to begin a four-day stay in West Africa. "I think he was worried that it would undermine our efforts by alerting terrorists to...

In addition to the photographs there is also a link to an article regarding the incident in the Sudan with the NBC reporter and US Officials when they were excluded from a meeting GretchenM pinged me a link to this article about how reporters and US Officials were treated today in the Sudan Dr Rice herself expressed anger at what happened. Part of the article as follows:- Security forces in the Sudanese capital manhandled U.S. officials and reporters traveling with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, marring her round of meetings with leaders of the new unified government. Rice demanded an...

ABU SHOUK, Sudan, July 21 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Thursday with women who had been raped during a campaign of ethnic violence in Sudan's Darfur region, as she sought to pressure the government to deal with a problem that has persisted despite an apparent easing of the humanitarian crisis. Rice heard the women's stories during a 90-minute stop at this sprawling camp of mud-brick homes, a showpiece that has become required stop for dignitaries visiting Darfur. Dozens of children greeted her with welcoming chants of "Marhab, marhab, ya Condoleezza," but other camp residents were kept outside a...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudanese security officers roughed up members of Condoleezza Rice's entourage Thursday and spoiled the African nation's hopes of showing off a new peace deal and improving a bruised reputation with the United States. The secretary of state gave Sudan's foreign minister a 90-minute deadline to make a personal apology, and he met it. Sudan got no promise from Rice that the United States would push to lift economic sanctions or remove the nation from the State Department's list of countries that sponsor terrorism. Rice also visited a vast refugee camp in the western Darfur region, site...

ABO SHOUK, Sudan (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday told Sudan's president his government had a "credibility problem" on the issue of Darfur and she wanted to see "actions not words". In a meeting marred by scuffles involving Rice's aides and Sudanese security officials, Rice told President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to stop violence, especially against women, in the remote western region of his country. "I said to the Sudanese government that they had a credibility problem with the international community … I have said; `actions not words'", Rice said in a round of interviews with journalists...

KHARTOUM, Sudan - Security forces in the Sudanese capital manhandled U.S. officials and reporters traveling with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, marring her round of congratulatory meetings with leaders of the new unified government. Rice demanded an apology, and got it. "It makes me very angry to be sitting there with their president and have this happen," she said. "They have no right to push and shove." Rice made her remarks to reporters after she and her entourage boarded an airplane to fly from the capital to a refugee camp in the Darfur region. At the camp, she said the...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: The President and Mrs. Bush are spending the weekend in Washington according to assistant WH press secretary Trent Duffy (from yesterday's press gaggle aboard AF1). Here's an interesting tidbit from yesterday's day trip: Bob Johnson, Chairman of BET (Black Entertainment Television) was a guest of GWB aboard Air Force One and accompanied the President throughout the day. Mr. Johnson strongly supports the CAFTA legislation. He's also on the President's Commission To Save and Strengthen Social Security. He has ties to the North Carolina region. [Bu...bu...but...isn't this the Dims' locked-in solid voting block?!] THE WEEK AHEAD:...

President George W Bush addressed the Indiana Black Expo Corporate luncheon at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana First Lady Laura Bush concluded her African trip and was joined on the last leg by the Brtish Prime Minister's Wife Yesterday 13th July 2005 Vice President Dick Cheney swore in US Ambassador to NATO at the State Department Today he and the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will be handing out the awards to Capts. Phillip Atwood and Patrick Martin firefighters from Kansas City who have been awarded the Public Safety Medal of Valor along with some of their other colleagues The...

President Bush and his Cabinet met this morning, after which Bush met with recipients of the 2005 Democracy Award of the National Endowment for Democracy. Today the White House slashed its forecast for the fiscal 2005 budget deficit by nearly $100 billion due to unexpectedly large tax revenues in recent months. Condi Rice continues her diplomatic visits in Asia, and Laura, Barbara and Jenna Bush continue their trip to Africa to promote AIDS prevention and strengthen the role of women there. Welcome to Sanity Island!

President George W Bush delivered a speech on the war on terrorism at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia Later both President Bush and the Vice President Cheney met U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad in the Oval Office First Lady Laura Bush and her daughters are on a visit to Africa. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on a four nation visit to the far east so far she has visited the Peoples Republic of China and Thailand and arrived late tonight in Japan. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - After a safari weekend, Laura Bush stepped out of a dusty SUV with her twin daughters on Monday to serve as a goodwill ambassador in Africa for President Bush.

<p>President Bush's speech in Senegal, wherein he credited Abraham Lincoln with a major role in eliminating American slavery, was not, perhaps, among his most controversial.</p> <p>Not everyone, however, will have nodded in agreement, for revisionist historians have been ganging up on Honest Abe and depicting him as a white supremacist, who had no moral qualms about slavery but wanted to kick all black people out of the country.</p>

Bush's Speech Boosts Reparations Movement With his speech on slavery Tuesday, President Bush has unwittingly boosted the demands by Jesse Jackson and company that modern-day taxpayers be forced to fork over cash to American blacks because of what happened not to them but to their ancestors. "It's probably the closest a U.S. president has come to apologizing," said Walter Fields, publisher of NorthStar Network, a black online news service. Even Bill Clinton backed off on making a P.C. "apology" after a storm of protest shot down the idea. "If we are recognizing this as one of the greatest crimes in...