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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who have raised about $110 million for Hurricane Katrina victims, announced $90 million worth of grants here Wednesday, including $30 million for higher education institutions along the Gulf Coast. Another $40 million will be divided among the three states hardest hit by Katrina - Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama - and $20 million will go to faith-based organizations. "Donations we got ranged from the smallest - $16 from a child's lemonade stand - to multimillion-dollar ones from foundations and corporations. Even foriegn governments have given us money to help...

Today: March 08, 2005 at 16:21:32 PST Bush, Clinton Say Their Bond Exemplary By NEDRA PICKLER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - George H.W. Bush once called Bill Clinton and his running mate the "two bozos." Clinton once called Bush "personally untrustworthy." But you'd never know it now by seeing the two traipsing together around the globe. With their 1992 campaign a distant memory and the partisanship of 2004 behind them, former Presidents Bush and Clinton appear like old buddies. "He beat me and made me unemployed," Bush said of Clinton in an interview Tuesday with Associated Press Television News. "And...

Bush's Father Warns Against Extrapolating From Speech By Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 23, 2005; Page A06 President Bush's call for an end to tyranny worldwide should not be interpreted by foreign governments and the American people as a prelude to a more aggressive and bellicose foreign policy in his second term, the president's father told reporters yesterday. "People want to read a lot into it -- that this means new aggression or newly asserted military forces," former President George H.W. Bush said. "That's not what that speech is about. It's about freedom." After George W. Bush's...

President and Laura Bush attended “Saluting Those Who Serve” today, honoring members of our Armed Forces at an event that helped kick off his second Inauguration, in which, contrary to media reports, he is celebrating the clear mandate he received from the American people on November 2nd. His father and mother, former President George H. W. Bush, and former First Lady, Barbara Bush also attended the event, where President Bush 41 recounted his World War II experiences. President Bush is working on his Inaugural Address which concentrates on the themes of freedom abroad, and an ownership society at home.Also today...

Saturday the First Couple campaigned in Florida. Sunday they attended St. John's Church in DC. Today President Bush signed the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, met with the US Olympic and Paralympic Teams at the White House, took press questions aboard Air Force One, and campaigned in New Jersey, joined by Bernard Kerik, former NYC police commissioner. The president's parents joined those in Texas who are casting their ballots early. Enjoy your daily dose of W @ Sanity Island.