2008 Policy News Archive
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2008 Policy News Archive
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UN Climate Change Conference in Poznań, Poland
"The United States is fully committed to reaching agreement by 2009 on a post-2012 climate agreement that is environmentally effective and economically sustainable," Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky said.
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President Bush Discusses World AIDS Day
President Bush on Monday said, “Today is World AIDS Day, a day we reaffirm our commitment to fight HIV/AIDS at home and abroad."
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President-elect Barack Obama announces members of economic team
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden officially announced key members of their economic team, naming Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and Lawrence Summers as Director of the National Economic Council.
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G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy
After the summit meeting to which he had invited the G20 nations, President George W. Bush stated: “We agree that we need to improve our regulations and to ensure that markets, firms, and financial products are subject to proper regulation and oversight.”
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice On International Human Rights
Secretary Condoleezza Rice said at the International Human Rights Day Awards Ceremony: “This week, we are joining in solidarity with human rights defenders across the globe in marking the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
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President Bush Welcomes President-Elect Obama to the White House
On Monday afternoon President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush warmly welcomed President-elect Barack Obama and Michelle Obama to the White House.
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President Bush Discusses International Development Policy
President George W. Bush addressed security, economic, and moral reasons for America’s engagement at the White House Summit on International Development.
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Summit on International Development: Sustaining The New Era
In a press briefing for the White House Summit on International Development, USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore stated: “The Bush Administration has definitely raised the profile of development like no administration since Truman and the Marshall Plan at the onset of the Cold War.”
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President Bush Addresses the Nation About Economic Crisis
In his Address to the Nation, President Bush explained: “I’m a strong believer in free enterprise. So my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention."
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President Bush Addresses United Nations General Assembly
In his eighth and final speech before the U.N. General Assembly in New York, President Bush highlighted how the United States has partnered closely with other nations to address global challenges.
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Secretary Rice: Russia’s future is in Russia’s hands
In a speech at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice placed the conflict over the Caucasus regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the larger context of recent tendencies in Russian politics.
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U.S. Announces $1 Billion Economic Support Package for Georgia
President George W. Bush announced a major United States economic support package for Georgia: “As part of America’s contribution to this international effort, today, I am announcing $1 billion in additional economic assistance to meet Georgia’s humanitarian needs and to support its economic recovery."
Broken Links
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Please note that the new Administration in 2009 has relaunched many web sites; as a consequence, most links to texts and images are now broken. You may be able to retrieve some of the historical information on sites such as http://web.archive.org/ — or, specifically for the former whitehouse.gov pages:
www.georgewbushlibrary.com/administration/archivesgeorgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov