News releases for January 2009
January 20, 2009
Radio Address by the President to the Nation
January 19, 2009
Statement by President and Mrs. Bush on Selection of Alan Lowe as Director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
January 17, 2009
President's Radio Address
Audio
In Focus: Bush Record
January 16, 2009
Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, 2009
In Focus: African-American History
Executive Order: Granting Reciprocity on Excepted Service and Federal Contractor Employee Fitness and Reinvestigating Individuals in Positions of Public Trust
To Implement the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement and for Other Purposes, 2009
Memorandum for the President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Memorandum for the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
President Bush Signs S.J. Res. 3 Into Law
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Personnel Announcement
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
To Suspend Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Foreign Government Officials Responsible for Failing to Combat Trafficking in Persons
President and Mrs. Bush Saddened by Death of Andrew Wyeth
January 15, 2009
President Bush Delivers Farewell Address to the Nation
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Audio
Fact Sheet: President Bush: Farewell Address to the Nation
Event Backgrounder and Guest List for the President's Farewell Address to the Nation
In Focus: Bush Record
President Bush Commemorates Foreign Policy Achievements and Presents Medal of Freedom to Ambassador Ryan Crocker
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Audio
In Focus: Iraq
In Focus: Freedom Agenda
In Focus: Bush Record
National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2009
Text of a Letter from the President
Memorandum for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury
Memorandum for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Energy
Message to the Senate of the United States
Message to the Congress of the United States
Message to the Congress of the United States
Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process
Message to the Congress of the United States
Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency Relating to Cuba and of the Emergency Authority Relating to the Regulation of the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels
Message to the Congress of the United States
Statement by the President on Plane Crash in New York City
January 14, 2009
Statement on Federal Disaster Assistance for Vermont
January 13, 2009
President Bush Holds Last Cabinet Meeting
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Audio
In Focus: Bush Record
President Bush Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
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Audio
Recipients of Medal of Freedom
President Bush Meets with President Calderón of Mexico
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Audio
In Focus: Global Diplomacy
Message to the Cuban People by the President
In Focus: Global Diplomacy
Religious Freedom Day, 2009
Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for the District of Columbia
January 12, 2009
Press Conference by the President
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Audio
In Focus: The Bush Record
Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense
Message to the Congress of the United States
National Security Presidential Directive and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
Personnel Announcement
Message to the Congress of the United States
Section 115 Report (PDF, 18 pages)
January 11, 2009
Interview of the President and Former President Bush by Brit Hume, Fox News
President and Mrs. Bush Saddened by Death of Cardinal Pio Laghi
January 10, 2009
President Bush and Former President George H. W. Bush Attend Commissioning Ceremony of the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush
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Audio
President's Radio Address
Audio
In Focus: Defense
President Bush to Welcome President Felipe Calderon of Mexico
In Focus: Global Diplomacy
January 9, 2009
Statement on Federal Disaster Assistance for Maine
Executive Order: Providing An Order of Succession Within the Department of Transportation
Executive Order: Strengthening Laboratory Biosecurity in the United States
Executive Order: Amending the Order of Succession Within the Department of Agriculture
January 8, 2009
President Bush Discusses No Child Left Behind
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Audio
In Focus: The Bush Record
Fact Sheet: No Child Left Behind Has Raised Expectations and Improved Results
In Focus: Education
Fact Sheet: No Child Left Behind Has Raised Expectations and Improved Results
President Bush Discusses No Child Left Behind
In Focus: Education
In Focus: The Bush Record
President Bush Saddened by Death of Father Richard John Neuhaus
Nomination Sent to the Senate
President Bush Congratulates Senator Kit Bond on Career
January 7, 2009
President Bush Welcomes President-Elect Obama, Former President Clinton, Former President Bush and Former President Carter to the White House
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Audio
In Focus: Transition
President Bush and Former President George H. W. Bush Host Reception in Honor of the Points of Light Institute
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Audio
Remarks by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
National Security Council
In Focus: National Security
January 6, 2009
President Bush Discusses Conservation and the Environment
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Audio
In Focus: The Bush Record
Fact Sheet: Marine National Monuments
In Focus: Environment
President Bush Attends Military Appreciation Parade with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
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Audio
In Focus: The Bush Record
In Focus: Homeland Security
In Focus: National Security
In Focus: Defense
Statement by the President on the Occasion of the Designation of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument
Establishment of the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument
Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
Establishment of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument
In Focus: Environment
Establishment of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument
Statement by the President on the Occasion of the Designation of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument
Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
Statement by the President on the Occasion of the Designation of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument
Establishment of the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument
Statement by the President on the Occasion of the Designation of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument
Statement by Press Secretary Dana Perino
In Focus: Global Diplomacy
Fact Sheet: Marine National Monuments
President Bush Discusses Conservation and the Environment
In Focus: Environment
Fact Sheet: President Bush Has Advanced Cooperative Conservation
In Focus: The Bush Record
In Focus: Environment
Personnel Announcement
Personnel Announcement
January 5, 2009
President Bush Meets with First Vice President of the Government of National Unity of the Republic of Sudan and President of the Government of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit
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Audio
In Focus: Global Diplomacy
In Focus: Africa
President, Mrs. Bush, Barbara, and Jenna Deeply Saddened by Passing of Their Cat India ("Willie")
India's Biography
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Statement by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley
In Focus: Africa
Statement on Federal Disaster Assistance for Hawaii
Statement on Federal Disaster Assistance the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
January 2, 2009
President's Radio Address
Audio
In Focus: Middle East
The President and Mrs. Bush to Host Lunch for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Mrs. Ban Soon-taek
In Focus: Global Diplomacy
Statement on Federal Disaster Assistance for New Hampshire