VinnysGirl
01-01-2006, 10:10 PM
Sometimes he's a real goober, but this is the kind of thing I like to see!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/01/bush.troops.ap/index.html
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- President Bush began the new year on Sunday at the bedsides of wounded servicemen and women, and awarded nine Purple Hearts to U.S. troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"The president, as commander in chief, feels it's one his most important duties to visit with those who are serving in the armed forces and providing great sacrifice for this important mission," White House spokesman Trent Duffy said.
The president boarded the Marine One presidential helicopter before dawn on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, and flew more than an hour to Randolph Air Force Base. His motorcade drove to Brooke Army Medical Center, a 224-bed hospital at nearby Fort Sam Houston, to meet with about 50 injured members of various branches of the armed forces and their families.
"He thanks them for their service. He asks how they're doing. He is always interested in seeing if they are getting the kinds of care they need," Duffy said, adding that not all the troops' injuries were sustained in combat.
Bush spent the past week relaxing at his ranch where he rode his bike, cleared brush and prepared for his sixth year in office. He and his wife, Laura, and her mother, Jenna Welch, stayed at the ranch on New Year's Eve and had a steak dinner.
The president, who was flying back to Washington after visiting the military hospital, has no public events scheduled for Monday, a federal holiday. He is to spend the rest of his first week of 2006 focused on Iraq and the economy.
On Tuesday, Bush is meeting at the White House with a group of U.S. attorneys to urge Congress to renew the Patriot Act. On Wednesday, he will be at the Pentagon making a statement about the war on terror.
Bush is hosting a bipartisan group of current and former secretaries of state and defense on Thursday to discuss terrorism and present his case for winning the war in Iraq. He travels on Friday to Illinois to visit the Chicago Board of Trade and make a speech on the economy.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/01/bush.troops.ap/index.html
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- President Bush began the new year on Sunday at the bedsides of wounded servicemen and women, and awarded nine Purple Hearts to U.S. troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"The president, as commander in chief, feels it's one his most important duties to visit with those who are serving in the armed forces and providing great sacrifice for this important mission," White House spokesman Trent Duffy said.
The president boarded the Marine One presidential helicopter before dawn on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, and flew more than an hour to Randolph Air Force Base. His motorcade drove to Brooke Army Medical Center, a 224-bed hospital at nearby Fort Sam Houston, to meet with about 50 injured members of various branches of the armed forces and their families.
"He thanks them for their service. He asks how they're doing. He is always interested in seeing if they are getting the kinds of care they need," Duffy said, adding that not all the troops' injuries were sustained in combat.
Bush spent the past week relaxing at his ranch where he rode his bike, cleared brush and prepared for his sixth year in office. He and his wife, Laura, and her mother, Jenna Welch, stayed at the ranch on New Year's Eve and had a steak dinner.
The president, who was flying back to Washington after visiting the military hospital, has no public events scheduled for Monday, a federal holiday. He is to spend the rest of his first week of 2006 focused on Iraq and the economy.
On Tuesday, Bush is meeting at the White House with a group of U.S. attorneys to urge Congress to renew the Patriot Act. On Wednesday, he will be at the Pentagon making a statement about the war on terror.
Bush is hosting a bipartisan group of current and former secretaries of state and defense on Thursday to discuss terrorism and present his case for winning the war in Iraq. He travels on Friday to Illinois to visit the Chicago Board of Trade and make a speech on the economy.