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Just days after Bush approved Card's plan, speechwriter Michael Gerson was told to begin work on an address to be delivered the following week. Gerson went through 14 drafts, with editing provided by Card, presidential counselor Karen Hughes and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. In an Oval Office meeting Tuesday, the advisers decided Bush should also confront the pre-9/11 intelligence failures and provide a progress report on the war against al-Qaeda. "We recognized the President had to address what's on the nation's mind," Hughes says. Cabinet members were not told of the plan...
...terrorists might get their hands on nuclear, biological or chemical weapons--and he wanted to warn rogue states not to help them do it. So in January the Defense Department drew up an assessment of the danger and channeled it back to the White House, where two speechwriters, Michael Gerson and David Frum, came up with what they thought was the perfect rallying...
...With bone marrow transplants, it sounds like a really invasive procedure” Gerson said...
...first day of the drive yesterday, only 20 potential donors had been registered. Gerson said she thought more people would register today...
...first day is usually pretty quiet,” Gerson said...