Word: crawfords
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what about the political questions? Did the President know all this when he made his decision on stem cell research? Friday morning, midway through a Crawford press conference, Bush was given the chance to answer that very question...
...vice chairman. Former head of the Air Force's space command. Former commander of the Pacific Air Forces. And no less importantly (especially in the personal-chemistry Bush Administration), the Kansas City native is by all accounts a pretty likable guy. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who was also in Crawford with Bush and Rumsfeld for the announcement, will be the new vice chairman...
...held far from Washington in the middle of August. But to tie them together, to make it seem as though the President were engaged in some concentrated activity of presidential purpose, they would name the entire series of trips - together with his down time at his ranch in Crawford, Texas - the "Home to the Heartland" tour...
...During his first week of vacation, Bush ventured all the way to Waco -about 25 minutes from Crawford - to "help build" a house with Habitat for Humanity. Though Bush actually spent about 15 minutes doing anything, the print media dutifully reported his activity. More importantly, of course, the images of Bush at work on a good deed were carried across the nation on television and in photographs...
...acre ranch in central Texas is dusty, dry and a world away from his father's preppy enclave in Kennebunkport, Me. "The national media will hate it," Bush gleefully told Republican Senators, "but I'm going where it's 98 degrees average temperature, day and night." His Crawford obsession is something even his most loyal aides don't understand. "He's quite sick, actually," says one. Sick and, for the time being, on a roll...