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Bush Library Design Chosen

Former President George W. Bush has settled on a modern brick-and-limestone design for his future presidential library and museum, complete with its own replica of the Oval Office and a “Texas Rose Garden” mimicking the original at the White House. ...

From PETER BAKER, The Caucus,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Congress,  Southern Methodist University,  Laura Bush

News Analysis: Russian Deal on Afghan Supply Route Not a Deal Yet

Seven months after the idea was raised and four months after the agreement was signed, the number of American flights that have actually traversed Russian airspace? One. And that was for show. The failure so far to translate words into reality amid ...

From PETER BAKER, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Ronald E. Neumann,  Taliban,  The Pentagon,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Bush Returns to Public Spotlight

DALLAS – He has gone out of his way not to criticize his successor, and former President George W. Bush stuck resolutely to that policy on Thursday as he dove back into the national conversation. But although he made no mention of President Obama, Mr. ...

From PETER BAKER, The Caucus,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Laura Bush,  Barack Obama,  Southern Methodist University,  Al-Qaeda,  U.S. Congress

Bush Emerging for Speech to Kick Off Public Policy Institute

DALLAS Nearly 10 months after leaving office, former President George W. Bush plans to emerge from self-imposed political hibernation on Thursday as he starts a new public policy institute to promote some of the domestic and international priorities of ...

From PETER BAKER, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Laura Bush,  Southern Methodist University,  US State Department,  Dick Cheney,  Barack Obama

All Afghan War Options by Obama Aides Said to Call for More Troops

WASHINGTON Advisers to President Obama are preparing three options for escalating the war effort in Afghanistan, all of them calling for more American troops, as he moves closer to a decision on the way forward in the eight-year-old war, officials said ...

From PETER BAKER AND HELENE COOPER, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Taliban,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  Al-Qaeda

The President Whose Words Once Soared

WASHINGTON As the most gifted orator of his generation, President Obama finds speechmaking perhaps his most potent political tool. It propelled him to national prominence in 2004 and to the White House in 2008. And whenever he needs to calm economic ...

From PETER BAKER, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Congress

News Analysis: Year Later, a Daily Grind

WASHINGTON For a president elevated to power on the back of history, the tears and euphoria of Grant Park feel like a thousand years ago. It has been just one year, of course, since Barack Obama’s election, a year since that moment when supporters felt ...

From PETER BAKER, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Lee H. Hamilton,  David Axelrod,  U.S. Republican Party

Biden Says ‘Who Cares’ What Cheney Says

PRAGUE Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a blunt response Friday to the latest broadsides from former Vice President Dick Cheney: “Who cares?” In the latest exchange between old and new administrations, Mr. Biden rebuffed his predecessor’s ...

From PETER BAKER, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dick Cheney,  Joe Biden,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  White House

Czechs Accept Modified Missile Shield Role

PRAGUE The Czech Republic agreed on Friday to host elements of the reformulated American missile defense system after Vice President Joseph R. Biden flew here to patch up relations damaged when President Obama canceled plans to deploy a sophisticated ...

From PETER BAKER, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Joe Biden,  NATO,  George W. Bush,  Mirek Topolanek

For History, a Special Substitute Teacher

Talk about a field trip. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. brought his 11-year-old granddaughter, Finnegan, with him for his three-day trip through Eastern Europe and gave her some first-hand lessons in modern diplomacy and Cold War history. ...

From PETER BAKER, The Caucus,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Joe Biden

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