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Chronology of George W. Bush Presidency*2001
Jan. 6 – A joint session of the House and Senate certifies the electoral college votes awarding the presidency to George W. Bush.
Jan. 9 – Linda Chavez withdraws name from consideration for Secretary of Labor after admitting to sheltering an illegal immigrant. (On Jan. 11, Bush nominates Elaine Chao to replace Chavez.)
Jan. 20 – George Walker Bush takes the oath of office to become the 43rdpresident of the United States. Bush’s 14-minute inaugural address stresses themes of “civility, courage, compassion, and character” and articulates his administration’s priorities, including reforming the schools, cutting taxes, shoring up social Security and Medicare, and strengthening the country’s defenses. In addition, Bush claims that reducing poverty, crime, and child abuse are government’s responsibility, but that charities and religious institutions also have a role to play. Jan. 23 – Bush unveils his education reform plan.
Jan. 29 – Bush signs executive order to create the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
Feb. 8 – Bush sends Congress his $1.6 trillion, 10-year tax-cut plan, arguing that fast, broad-based tax relief is necessary to boost a slowing economy.
Feb. 16 – In his first trip abroad since taking office, Bush travels to Mexico for a one-day meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada. While there, he orders a military strike against targets south of Baghdad in response to improvements in Iraqi air defenses.
Feb. 22 – Bush holds first news conference as president.
Feb. 27 – Bush presents the outlines of his $1.96 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2002 to a joint session of Congress. Much of his address is focused on his tax cut proposal. The Bush budget calls for increased spending in education and Medicare, while restraining overall spending growth and paying down portions of the national date.
Mar. 5 – Vice President Richard Cheney is hospitalized for heart trouble.
Mar. 14 – Dow Jones Industrial Average drops below 10,000 for the first time since October 2000.
Mar. 19 – Senate begins debate on McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Bush supports alternative plan.
Mar. 27 – EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman announces that the Bush administration has “no interest in implementing” the Kyoto Protocol for the reduction of greenhouse gases.
Apr. 1 – China detains the crew of a U.S. spy plane after the U.S. plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet. The U.S. plane made an emergency landing on Hainan island, while the Chinese fighter crashed into the sea. The incident marks the first serious diplomatic confrontation faced by the Bush administration.
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Apr. 9 – Bush unveils the specifics of his $1.96 trillion budget proposal for the 2002 fiscal year to Congress.
Apr. 12 – China releases the 24-member U.S. spy plane crew that had been held on Hainan island. On April 11, U.S. Ambassador Joseph Prueher delivered a letter saying that the U.S. was “very sorry” for the loss of a Chinese pilot in the incident and for landing in China without permission.
Apr. 25 – After the administration announces approval of an arms sale to Taiwan, Bush says the U.S. would do “whatever it took” to aid Taiwan if it was attacked by China. Asked by Charlie Gibson of ABC’s “Good Morning America” whether the U.S. had an obligation to defend Taiwan in such a situation, Bush replies, “Yes, we do, and the Chinese must understand that.” Bush’s comments spark concerns that the administration was departing from a long-standing U.S. policy of remaining vague about the degree to which it would come to Taiwan’s aid in a conflict with China. President Bush and state department officials later emphasize that U.S. policy has not changed.
May 1 – In a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., Bush outlines plans to develop and deploy a national missile defense shield. Bush stops short of explicitly withdrawing from the 1972 ABM treaty with Russia, but he expresses the need to move beyond the “adversarial legacy of the Cold War” and “replace this treaty with a new framework that reflects a clear and clean break from the past.”
May 4 – The Labor Department announces an unemployment rate of 4.5%, the highest since 1998.
May 17 – Bush unveils his administration’s energy policy. His plan emphasizes increasing domestic energy production, including drilling in the Arctic wilderness, and expanding distribution, while also incorporating several conservation and efficiency initiatives.
May 20 – At a commencement address at Notre Dame University, President Bush claims that partnerships between government and private charities are the “third wave” of antipoverty efforts, following the Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty and Bill Clinton’s welfare reform.
May 24 – Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont announces plans to leave the Republican Party and become an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. Jeffords’s move shifts control of the Senate.
May 26 – The House and Senate give final approval to a $1.35 trillion tax-cut package that contains the major elements of President Bush’s tax-relief program.
May 30 – Bush unveils a five-year, $5 billion spending plan for the National Park Service. His speech at Sequoia National Park is his first major address on the environment.
June 12-16 – Bush completes a five-nation tour of Europe, his first trip overseas since taking office. As part of the trip, Bush meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but fails to soften Putin’s opposition to U.S. development of a missile defense shield.
June 14 – Bush administration announces a halt to bombing exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
June 22 – The Department of Defense announces that Bush will propose an $18.4 billion increase to the defense budget for fiscal 2002.
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June 28 – A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll gives President Bush a 50% approval rating, the lowest presidential approval rating in more than five years. A Zogby Poll reports Bush’s approval at 51%.
July 12 – Bush announces plans to enable Medicare recipients to purchase prescription drugs at discount prices.
July 23 – Negotiators from 178 countries agree to adopt a treaty to require industrialized countries to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, believed to be a cause of global warming. The treaty, a revised version of the Kyoto Protocol, is signed without U.S. participation.
July 25 – U.S. rejects a draft agreement aimed at enforcing the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
Aug. 1 – The House passes Bush’s energy bill, including his plan to allow drilling in the Arctic wilderness.
Aug. 2 – The House approves a version of a patients’ bill of rights supported by the White House. The plan includes a limited right for individuals to sue health plans in state courts.
Aug. 9 – In a televised address to the nation, Bush announces that he will permit federal funding of limited research on human embryonic stem cells. Bush says he will support federally funded research on the 60 embryonic stem cell lines already produced, but not research using embryos currently stored in fertility clinics or embryos crated specifically for experimentation.
Sept. 5 – Mexican President Vincente Fox arrives in Washington for a two-day state visit during which he and Bush discuss an immigration agreement.
Sept. 11 – In the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, hijackers commandeer four commercial jetliners, flying two of them into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon. The fourth jet crashes in a field in Pennsylvania. In brief initial remarks at an elementary school in Florida, Bush declares, “Terrorism against our nation will not stand.” Bush then flies to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, where he makes a second public statement, and then to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, where he holds a meeting of the National Security Council by video telephone. After returning to Washington in the evening, Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office, saying, “Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.”
Sept. 12 – In remarks to cabinet members and congressional leaders in the White House, Bush says, “The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were . . . acts of war.” Bush spends the day in meetings with security and intelligence aides and congressional and world leaders.
Sept. 14 – Bush attends a multifaith prayer service at the National Cathedral as part of a “National Day of Prayer and Remembrance,” declaring, “The conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way and at an hour of our choosing.” Bush travels to New York City, where he thanks rescue workers, declaring, “The people who knocked these buildings down will hear from us soon.”
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The Senate votes 98-0 and the House votes 420-1 to authorize Bush to use “all necessary and appropriate force” to retaliate against the terrorists. Bush authorizes a call-up of 50,000 reservists for “homeland defense.”
Sept. 19 – Bush demands that Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban government turn Osama bin Laden over to the U.S. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says his government will cooperate with U.S. efforts to break up bin Laden’s terrorist network.
Sept. 20 – Bush addresses a joint session of Congress, outlining his campaign against terrorism. He announces a new cabinet-level agency, the Office of Homeland Security, to be headed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.
Sept. 24 – Bush issues an executive order freezing the assets of 27 groups and individuals suspected of supporting terrorists.
Sept. 27 – Bush unveils a new $3 billion plan to improve security at U.S. airports.
Oct. 7 – The U.S. and Britain launch airstrikes against Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and the Al Qaeda terrorist network. Bush addresses the nation in a televised address shortly after the attacks began, saying, “The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”
Oct. 11 – Bush holds the first formal prime-time news conference of his presidency.
Oct. 17 – In his first trip abroad since the terrorist attacks, Bush travels to Shanghai for the annual Asia-Pacific economic summit. He visits with Chinese President Jiang Zemin and says the U.S. and China stand “side by side” in the war on terrorism.
Oct. 19 – U.S. Special Forces launch the first ground raids in Afghanistan.
Oct. 24 – The House and Senate approve a compromise anti-terrorism bill.
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