Word: sheehans
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With bucolic Crawford, Texas (pop. 705, except when President Bush takes his August vacation there) and its environs groaning under the weight of Cindy Sheehan's protest, protesters protesting Cindy Sheehan's protest and the media covering it all, locals are beginning to long for the days when their rural roads were dusty and, well, empty...
...President's ranch. Not all five of the commissioners supported the action and the Texas Civil Rights Project has threatened a lawsuit, but on a 3-2 vote Meadows won support for a public hearing on the issue. The bad news for residents concerned about the return of Sheehan-who left the ranch to care for her ill mother-is that the public hearing will be held in about 30 days time, long after President Bush returns to the White House after his summer vacation...
Around the time that the forlorn gold star mother Cindy Sheehan began her vigil outside the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas, I had dinner with a military officer who had commanded a battalion in Iraq...
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, on his decision not to meet with Cindy Sheehan, who waited two weeks in a roadside vigil to speak with him about her son's death in Iraq, then left to take care of her mother after learning she had had a stroke...
...fair question. There is a risk, though, that Sheehan's ideas will never stop spreading down the road. In 1965 a group of just 25 antiwar protesters demonstrated outside President Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch. Within a few years, the handful had turned into a movement. --With reporting by Amanda Bower/San Francisco, Jay Carney/Washington and Hilary Hylton/Crawford