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PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President Bush is spending the weekend at Camp David. He will travel to Morganstown, West Virginia, on Monday to participate in 4th of July celebrations there. The First Lady has been away from Washington recently. However, she will be traveling with the President to Europe this coming week. Our beloved Dubya will mark his 59th birthday on July 6. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. PRESIDENT! And a rousing HAPPY 229TH BIRTHDAY to our great nation. Laura Bush to visit Tanzania 2005-07-01 07:09:58 By Guardian Reporter US First Lady Laura Bush will visit Tanzania later this month. She...

WASHINGTON — At the darkest moment of his Pentagon tenure, when the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal was gathering steam and many in Washington were betting on his swift exit, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld boarded a C-17 cargo plane last year and made an emergency trip to Baghdad. There, Rumsfeld told a throng of U.S. troops that he had no intention of going down without a fight. "It's a fact," Rumsfeld said. "I'm a survivor." Back home, Rumsfeld's trip became fodder for late-night television. "Yeah, a survivor about to be voted off the island," Jay Leno cracked on "The...

Some Americans are surprised to see that Donald Rumsfeld has kept his job in the face of mounting U.S. casualties in Iraq. Some have gone so far as to demand his resignation. The latest critic to publicly call for the defense secretary's departure is William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard. Given his repeated faulty prognostications about Iraq, one wonders why anyone should take these urgings seriously. The Iraq debacle that Kristol championed made what should have been an easy victory this November into a bruising electoral battle. Despite the fact that advocates of military action against Iraq have been...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the acting director of central intelligence urged Congress on Tuesday to move cautiously in adopting recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission. They also joined in opposing the commission's call for the C.I.A. to cede to the Pentagon the authority for covert paramilitary operations. At the same time, both Mr. Rumsfeld and the acting C.I.A. chief, John E. McLaughlin, suggested that they were now grudgingly open to the commission's central recommendation: the creation of the post of national intelligence director to oversee the government's 15 intelligence agencies, including the Central Intelligence...