George W. Bush

Again the Taliban refused, perhaps not realizing that the new(ish) U.S. president, George W. Bush, was a very different character from Bill Clinton.

Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

Mortenson sat at the table for forty-five minutes, alone with an American flag and a large portrait of the president who’d taken the oath of office ten months earlier, George W. Bush.

Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea

A couple wear masks—a blood-scarred monster, a long-fanged werewolf, a Dumboeared George W. Bush.

Ellen Hopkins -- Identical

He joked about George W. Bush, about the administration’s dismal response to the disaster so far.

Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

Likewise, one of George W. Bush’s few positive international legacies was a big push against trafficking.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

Throughout both terms of President George W. Bush’s administration, every effort to reform the nation’s food-safety system was blocked by the White House and by Republicans in Congress.

Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation

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Near Shepherd’s Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.

Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

That was halfway through Bill Clinton’s presidency and before George W. Bush was elected.

Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?

The economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and devout critic of George W. Bush, bemoaned this fact as the President’s reelection campaign got under way in early 2004: "The approved story line about Mr. Bush is that he’s a bluff, honest, plainspoken guy, and anecdotes that fit that story get reported.

Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics

There were no other passengers on board, just the flight crew and, in the rear, us, headed out to do God’s work on behalf of the U.S. government and our commander in chief, President George W. Bush.

Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

He sees American politicians pandering by speaking Spanish themselves to woo Hispanic voters— one of these George W. Bush.

Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?

Then George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush both eliminated U.S. funding for the agency.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

The George W. Bush administration donated more than 400 million condoms a year during its second term.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

For the 2009 fiscal year, President George W. Bush actually proposed an 18 percent cut in USAID spending for maternal and child care to just $370 million, or about $1.20 per American per year.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends When George W. Bush announced early in his first administration that the United States would withhold all $34 million that had been allocated for the UNFPA, many people grumbled about it.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

George W. Bush never signed on entirely to the anticondom campaign being waged by many within his administration, and the United States continued to donate more condoms than any other country, with mild increases over the years.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

He replied that he most certainly would and that he believed that President George W. Bush would be honored to have it.

Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

The president of the United States, George W. Bush, stood up to greet me.

Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

This particular clinic was run by another member of the consortium, Marie Stopes International—but then George W. Bush cut off funds to Marie Stopes and the entire consortium, all around the world, because Marie Stopes was helping to provide abortions in China.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

It’s because of encouragement from evangelicals, including Michael Gerson, a former White House chief speech writer, that George W. Bush sponsored his presidential initiative to fight AIDS—the best single thing he ever did, arguably saving more than 9 million lives.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

That touched off a huge debate nationally, provoking President George W. Bush to propose a constitutional amendment to save civilization by denning marriage as between a man and a woman.

Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?

President George W. Bush became the butt of many jokes when he said, "There’s no negotiations with North Korea.

Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?

As all this was transpiring, Pakistan’s foreign minister was visiting the White House and hearing President George W. Bush publicly praise Musharraf’s "bold leadership.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

A State Department fact-finding mission sent to investigate by the George W. Bush administration reported back: "We find no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in the People’s Republic of China.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky