Posted on 01/21/2006 4:18:32 PM PST by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY The first family is spending the weekend at Camp David. Next week, the President, Vice President and others in the administration will be pushing back on the issue of monitoring international phone calls potentially connected with terrorism.
THE WEEK AHEAD: Once again Scott McClellan did not announce the week-ahead schedule at his press briefing. However, a search of news articles yielded the following:
President Bush will speak Monday at Kansas State University about U.S. efforts to fight terrorism. His address will be part of the university's Landon Lecture series and is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. CST in Bramlage Coliseum on the Manhattan campus. GWB is the third sitting president to give a lecture, following Ronald Reagan in 1982 and Richard Nixon in 1970.
President Bush will visit the ultra-secret National Security Agency on Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday a sports team that never was invited to the White House will finally do so nearly 40 years after they won their championship.
'66 Miner title team to finally visit Washington
Bill Knight
El Paso Times
Friday, January 20, 2006The 1966 Texas Western NCAA championship basketball team, the team that was never invited to the White House, will meet with President Bush there Feb 22.
"The White House has invited Coach (Don) Haskins and his wife (Mary), the players and their spouses to have dinner and to see a screening of 'Glory Road,' at the White House on February 22," said Steve Tredennick.
Tredennick, who played on Haskins' first Texas Western team, is a lawyer in Round Rock, Texas, who has been handling everything for the 1966 team.
"This is pretty exciting after 40 years," Haskins said. "I think everyone's excited. I just called Eddie Mullens (the sports information director in 1966) and he was ecstatic. George W. is a special guy, as far as I'm concerned."
Harry Flournoy, a starter on the 1966 team, lives in Los Angeles. He, too, was excited by the news.
"Yes, it is exciting," Flournoy said Thursday night. "We should have been the ones to start that tradition in 1966. But better late than never. Seriously, all this is just something I could never have dreamed ... not even in my wildest dreams. I know we're going to have a good time. I know I am. I love all those guys (teammates). We love getting together, hashing out things, telling some lies and hoping people's memories are not too good."
And, on Wednesday night, Feb. 22, the men from 1966 will tell their stories in the White House.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: The First Lady gave an interview to the BBC's Sir David Frost after her return from Africa. Following are excerpts from the transcript.
First Lady recalls 9/11 challenge
By Matthew Davis
BBC News, Washington
The United States' First Lady Laura Bush has told the BBC that the "war on terror" has made her job more challenging than she ever anticipated.
"Obviously we didn't expect what happened on September 11th, we never expected we would be in a war, and that is very, very difficult," she said.
Mrs Bush, just back from Africa, made the comments during an interview with the BBC's Sir David Frost.
Such is her popularity that some have speculated that she might follow in the footsteps of her predecessor as First Lady, now-Senator Hillary Clinton, and seek elected office.
In a speech on Thursday President George W Bush said his wife would never run for office, and Mrs Bush confirmed it was "absolutely unlikely".
She also said that her friend, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice - who despite her denials is still being tipped as a potential 2008 presidential candidate - had "fully decided" not to run.
Mrs Bush spoke instead of the challenge of being a first lady in a country divided by the war in Iraq.
"I watched people that I love very much in this job - my mother-in-law and my father-in-law - and I had a real idea of the weight of it, the weight of the job.
"I remember during the Gulf War when President Bush, my husband's father, was president, and the very start of it when the body bags went over to Kuwait - and the whole worry of that, the whole gravity of that.
"The choices that a president makes, for instance, are so consequential, there are so many consequences - and so I knew that, even though that doesn't always help when you are in the midst of it yourself.
"Many people are very, very sincerely anti-war, everyone is anti-war, the president is anti-war, no-one wants war, but no-one wanted what happened on September 11 either."
In the homespun way that has endeared her to the US public, the first lady also revealed what first attracted her to Mr Bush.
"One of the first things I liked about him when I met him was his sense of humour," she said.
"And to be married to someone who can be funny at the dinner table - we had two teenage girls at the dinner table - it was really very nice, he was always able to defuse moments of tension when 13-year-old girls are acting like 13-year-old girls - he's a really wonderful father to our girls."
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Actually I had not bought anything from Ebay for over a year until tonight.
I blame it on dad he mentioned ebay so I just had to go look and ended up making a couple of bids one I won and the other one I think I am just about to loose.
Previous to that though 2 Christmas ago I bought virtually everything from Ebay.
RWR was truly like a ray of sunshine after the gloomy Carter years. I cried buckets and buckets of tears all week when he died. I stayed home from work for the funeral, then went with a group of California FReepers to visit his grave a couple of weeks later.
Jim, I should have pinged you earlier so you can see the rare Reagan photos on this thread. What a day it was when we all went to visit his grave.
I can't drink that Jonny there is no milk in it !!!
Accomplished without any pronouns. Hehehehehehe...
Snugs...I am so sorry...I was getting Birthday presents ready for my granddaughter's first birthday party tomorrow...and I forgot that I won a toaster!!!
In honor of Chase, who loves puppy dogs...I would like a picture with Barney and/or Miss Beasley please!!
Getting better every day...LOL!
Off to bed - Mass comes early for those who sing (I have to warm up the voice before I get there...).
Happy Sunday to you.
G'Night!
Wolfstar, the picture of President Bush with John Rhodes is just wonderful. It brought tears to my eyes...President Bush looked so handsome and less stressed. He's still handsome but the stress of caring for the world sometimes shows in his face. Like so many on the Dose, I pray for him every day.
LOL>...we Americans used to have "Supper"....that was today's "Dinner".....and supposedly "supper" WAS a smaller meal than Lunch, which MAY have been called DINNER.....yowser....this IS confusing.....anyway, all I know is they had it right as do you.....a SMALLER meal at night is BETTER. (I like this saying....Eat like a Queen at Breakfast, a Princess at Lunch, and a Pauper at Dinner).
Coming up
It was a big comfort during that week to see all who came out to show their respects for a beloved hero. I was fine until the horse (Sgt. York) carried his boots.
Great....I am glad you enjoyed your stay in the mighty state of Texas...and San Antonio..by the Hill Country is in one of the most beautiful spots in Texas...
As for the sun....cross your fingers, but WE are supposed to get rain tomorrow....it is SO needed...
BUT, I heard that yours is supposed to stop...maybe just in time for the Seahawks to SMASH Carolina...huh???
Are you hoping for a job down here???
I kind of go in bursts. Depending on my budget, if you know what I mean! LOL!
Good night, apples. Sleep tight.
Here ya go. (Hope it's enough :)
He does look very handsome in that photo. The stress of the presidency is tough on anyone, but this has been a truly star-crossed presidency the equal of only a very small number of others. It has taken a lot out of him, and we can see that on his face.
I wish there was a way to edit a previous post to fix images! I swear the pics were there just a second ago!
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