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U.S. President Bush speaks with New York governor George Pataki and New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani two days following the September 11 attacks, on September 13, 2001. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United States government responded by commencing immediate rescue operations at the World Trade Center site, grounding civilian aircraft, and beginning a long-term response that ...
On May 1, 2003, United States president George W. Bush gave a televised speech on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Bush, who had launched the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq six weeks earlier, mounted a podium in front of a White House-produced banner that read "Mission Accomplished". Reading from a prepared text, he said, "Major combat ...
On October 7, 2001, a coalition led by the United States military began an invasion of Afghanistan that would lead to the overthrow of the Taliban government. [2] The president described the coming war as a battle between good and evil. The speech is considered an announcement of the beginning of the global war on terrorism. [3]
President George W. Bush participates in a reading demonstration on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. The U.S. National Archives
In the days following the attacks, Richard Jackson noted in his book Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-terrorism that "there [was] a deliberate and sustained effort" on the part of the President George W. Bush's administration to "discursively link September 11, 2001 to the attack on Pearl Harbor itself", [32] both by ...
When Bill Clinton was inaugurated, George H.W. Bush sent him a letter -- and it's being resurfaced over 20 years later.
More than 200 Republican staffers who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney, or the late Sen. John McCain also endorsed Harris in a letter Monday obtained ...
For Bush, as a pilot, this was typically split into periods of duty of a few days each during the year. The Boston Globe reported in September 2004 that "Bush fell well short of meeting his military obligation." They cite examples of Bush failing to meet Air National Guard commitments in 1972 and 1973. [44]