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unusual facts about Bush administration



Alaska gas pipeline

Opposition to the Alaska natural gas pipeline route mandate and price supports came from both the Bush administration and the Canadian government.

Barbara Brandriff Crabb

On April 15, 2010, Crabb ruled in a suit that the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed in 2008 against the Bush administration that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.

Dan Bartlett

Daniel Joseph Bartlett (born June 1, 1971) was a Counselor to the President in the Bush administration.

Homeland

In a June 2002 column, Republican consultant and speechwriter Peggy Noonan expressed the hope that the Bush administration would change the name of the department, writing that, "The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably. Homeland isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now".

Manufacturing Dissent

The film was made over the course of two years by Canadians Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine after they viewed Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore's controversial film that attacked the Bush administration and its policies.

OpenDocument Format Alliance

The executive director is Marino Marcich, who served for four years in the Bush administration's State Department prior to joining the ODF Alliance.

Slavery in Sudan

According to CNN, many groups in the United States have expressed concern about slavery and religious oppression in Sudan, putting pressure on the Bush administration to take action.

Terror and Liberalism

Ellen Willis wrote for Salon.com that while Berman was correct in criticizing the repressive and inhumane policies of secular dictators such as Saddam Hussein and Islamic fundamentalist groups, Berman was deeply wrong in his praise for the Bush administration's foreign policies.

The Price of Loyalty

Published in early 2004, The Price of Loyalty chronicled the tenure of Paul O'Neill as Treasury Secretary during the Bush Administration.

Whitaker scandal

The scandal revolves around the Whitaker Group, the lobbying firm of Rosa Whitaker, a former assistant U.S. trade representative for Africa in the Bush administration and payments she received from the Ugandan government.

William Heaton

From left to right: convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, golf organizer Jason Murdoch, former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, convicted former Bush administration official David Safavian and Congressman Bob Ney

Yu-7 torpedo

The Bush Administration had faced significant criticism from congress and many human rights activist groups for delivering the last batch of Mk 46 Mod. 2 torpedo to China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, but the Bush Administration countered that the delivery was the completion of a previous deal made prior to the crackdown.


see also

A World Transformed

A World Transformed is a 1998 book (ISBN 0-679-43248-5) by former President George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, Bush's National Security Advisor, documenting foreign relations during the Bush administration.

Benkert

Joseph Benkert, United States Naval officer and George W. Bush administration official

Bradley Foundation

PNAC brought together prominent members of the George H. W. Bush administration, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz, in the late 1990s to articulate their neoconservative foreign policy, including sending a letter to President Bill Clinton urging him to invade Iraq.

Brian E. Carlson

He served as American ambassador to Latvia in the George W. Bush administration and he currently advises international media and audience analysis firm InterMedia Research Institute on strategic communication matters.

Brooks Brothers riot

Garry Malphrus, who became deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council during the Bush administration

Climate Change Science Program

In March 2005, Rick S. Piltz resigned from CCSP charging political interference with scientific reports: "I believe ...that the administration … has acted to impede forthright communication of the state of climate science and its implications for society." Piltz charged that the Bush Administration had suppressed the previous National Assessment on Climate Change, by systematically deleting references to the report from government scientific documents.

Counterterrorism Center

CTC Director Black advocated arming Predators with missiles to try to launch a targeted killing of bin Laden, but there were legal and technical issues: under the new Bush administration in 2001, Black continued to lobby for Predators armed with adapted Hellfire anti-tank missiles.

Craig Roberts Stapleton

In 2007 he recommended to the Bush administration that they wage a trade war on European crops, due to European resistance to genetically modified foods such as MON 810, thus denying a key US export.

Ed O'Callaghan

O'Callaghan was sent to Alaska to handle "legal issues that are affecting the political dynamic of the campaign," according to Taylor Griffin, a former Treasury Department official in the Bush administration.

FireHollywood

Celebrities who support the Bush administration (or, presumably, those who have remained neutral on the subject) are posted on a similar list of "Patriotic Entertainers", which also includes non-Americans like Canadian comedian Norm Macdonald and British actor Gary Oldman.

Gonzalo Boye

Gonzalo Boye (Viña del Mar, 1965) is a human rights lawyer, based in Spain, notable for trying to use Spanish law to charge Bush administration officials for their roles in war crimes committed against citizens or residents of Spain while the US held them in extrajudicial detention.

Goodling

Monica Goodling (born 1973), former US government lawyer and political appointee in the George W. Bush administration

Human rights in Indonesia

In the United States, the US Senate had since early 2001 been rejecting repeated efforts by the Bush administration to have US funding of the Indonesian military resumed, a ban which had been reluctantly imposed by the Clinton administration after TNI officers were filmed coordinating the Dili Scorched Earth campaign.

Ian Fishback

McCain, along with Republican Senators John Warner and Lindsey Graham afterward wrote an amendment to a Senate bill which would make illegal previous Bush administration claims for the use of extreme methods of abuse.

James L. Connaughton

Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Connaughton was a partner in the law firm Sidley Austin, in its Environmental Practice Group, dealing with corporate environmental compliance.

Joint Combat Aircraft

The effort, backed by the Bush administration, has been repeatedly blocked by U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde because of his concern about potential technology transfer to third countries.

Lester Holt

He also did a voice-over in the episode "Sandwich Day", announcing that Jack Donaghy would be a new cabinet member in the Bush administration.

Linton Brooks

Prior to joining the George W. Bush Administration, Brooks was a vice president at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) and an advisor to Sandia National Laboratories.

Loup City, Nebraska

Richard Raymond - Prominent Nebraska medical doctor and Undersecretary in the Department of Agriculture during the George W. Bush Administration

Marshall Wittmann

He called the Bush tax cuts in a time of war "frivolous and obscene" and said the Bush administration must give more support to poor families.

Mary Cheney

In 2004, public attention focused again on Cheney's sexuality when the Bush administration supported the Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would limit marriage to heterosexual couples and also ban civil unions and domestic partnership benefits.

McCarry

Caleb McCarry is the Bush administration's Cuba Transition Coordinator.

Mobile weapons laboratory

With information about the mobile labs the Bush administration then went and asked Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC) if they knew anything about this "threat".

Mohammed Nechle

On March 3, 2009, El Khabar reported that the Bush administration forced Idr and the other two men to sign undertakings that they would not sue the US government for their kidnapping, before they would be released.

Patrick Philbin

Patrick F. Philbin, American lawyer and Bush administration appointee

Philip J. Carroll

In 2003 he was appointed by the Bush administration to head the policy planning advisory board of the Iraqi Oil Ministry.

Rustle the Leaf

Because news of the publication spread via the World Wide Web, requests for the copies of the book came in from organizations and nations around the world—including requests from the National Army of Pakistan, the Canadian government, a leading luxury hotel chain based in Indonesia, NASA's Langley Research Center, and an EPA regional office, which asked to be supplied with books anonymously for fear of reprisals from the Bush Administration.

State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration

State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration is documentary review written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for The New York Times James Risen.

Supply-side economics

In 2006 Sebastian Mallaby of The Washington Post quoted George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Frist, Chuck Grassley, and Rick Santorum misstating the effect of the Bush Administration's tax cuts.

The Last Sucker

The inner cover art contains a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, with Jourgensen in the center of the table and figures from the Bush administration around him; Bush himself is drawn in Philip the Apostle's place.

The System Has Failed

Behind Cheney are several other Bush Administration officials: Then National Security Advisor (and later Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Tomas J. Philipson

He served in the second Bush Administration as the senior economic advisor to the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during 2003-04 and subsequently as the senior economic advisor to the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2004-05.

United States Ambassador to Burma

Michael J. Green was nominated by President Bush in 2008 to fulfill a special envoy position delegated by the Tom Lantos Block Burma JADE Act, but the nomination was not voted on by the end of the Bush Administration.

W. Page Keeton

Keeton was the father of former Texas Comptroller and gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn, and grandfather of Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary under U.S. President George W. Bush, and Mark McClellan, who headed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and was Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the second Bush administration.

William Kelley

William K. Kelley, Deputy White House Counsel for the George W. Bush administration