[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2002, Book I)]
[January 1, 2002]
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PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
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George Bush
2002
(IN TWO BOOKS)
BOOK I--JANUARY 1 TO JULY 31, 2002
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United States Government Printing Office
Washington : 2002
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Foreword
This volume brings together my speeches and papers from the first
half of 2002--a time of hard effort and achievement for our country.
In the fall of 2001, I ordered our Armed Forces into battle in
Afghanistan, with the mission of destroying terrorist training camps and
removing the Taliban regime from power. Within 4 months after our Nation
was attacked by terrorists, a coalition led by America had destroyed the
training grounds of terror and liberated the Afghan people from the
brutal rule of the Taliban. Working with a new interim government in
Afghanistan, we began the work of building a democratic and peaceful
nation.
Military success in Afghanistan was one advance in America's broader
war against terrorists and terror regimes. Across the world, from the
Philippines to Africa, we continued to pursue the terrorists, to deny
them funding, and to disrupt their operations. America made clear that
the state sponsors of terror would be held to account--and I expressed
our national determination to prevent terrorists from gaining weapons of
mass destruction. In the first 6 months of 2002, America took
unprecedented steps to defend our homeland and our people, changes that
would soon lead to the establishment of the Department of Homeland
Security.
As we answered threats to our security, America took determined
action to overcome the economic slowdown that had begun in 2000. My
Administration worked with the Congress in extending unemployment
benefits, to give extra help to citizens still looking for work. We
passed tax relief, helping to create new jobs across the American
economy. And we enacted serious reforms to stop the corporate abuses
that had come to light in early 2002.
One of the most significant domestic achievements recorded in this
volume was the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Passed with bipartisan
support in the Congress, this legislation promised to reverse old trends
by requiring testing, measuring the progress of every student, and
reporting results to parents. This law also made sure that the parents
of children in poorly performing schools would have choices, whether
tutoring, a charter school, or a higher achieving public school. After
years of debate, the crucial principles of high standards and
accountability were now the law of the land.
Our Government made progress on other important priorities. We
continued to call for reform in America's welfare system, to give job
training and new opportunities to Americans in need. I continued to
advocate my Administration's faith-based initiatives to encourage the
compassionate work of religious people in their communities. We pressed
for passage of a comprehensive energy plan to encourage conservation,
promote domestic energy exploration, and modernize our aging electricity
grid. And we moved forward with policies to protect our national parks
and to safeguard our forests from catastrophic wildfires.
This period in our country's history brought many challenges, and we
responded actively at home and abroad. We also continued to put in place
strategies that would help America respond to future dangers. And we
upheld our foremost duty to protect the American people from harm. As I
said to the U.S. Military Academy class of 2002, ``In the world we have
entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this Nation
will act.''
B
Preface
This book contains the papers and speeches of the 43d President of
the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary
during the period January 1-June 30, 2002. The material has been
compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National
Archives and Records Administration.
The material is presented in chronological order, and the dates
shown in the headings are the dates of the documents or events. In
instances when the release date differs from the date of the document
itself, that fact is shown in the textnote. Every effort has been made
to ensure accuracy: Remarks are checked against a tape recording, and
signed documents are checked against the original. Textnotes and cross
references have been provided by the editors for purposes of
identification or clarity. Speeches were delivered in Washington, DC,
unless indicated. The times noted are local times. All materials that
are printed full-text in the book have been indexed in the subject and
name indexes, and listed in the document categories list.
The Public Papers of the Presidents series was begun in 1957 in
response to a recommendation of the National Historical Publications
Commission. An extensive compilation of messages and papers of the
Presidents covering the period 1789 to 1897 was assembled by James D.
Richardson and published under congressional authority between 1896 and
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there was no uniform publication comparable to the Congressional Record
or the United States Supreme Court Reports. Many Presidential papers
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The Commission's recommendation was incorporated in regulations of
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A companion publication to the Public Papers series, the Weekly
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the needs of the contemporary reader. Beginning with the administration
of Jimmy Carter, the Public Papers series expanded its coverage to
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the Office of the Press Secretary. Also included are lists of the
President's nominations submitted to the Senate, materials released by
the Office of the Press Secretary that are not printed full-text in the
book, and proclamations, Executive orders, and other Presidential
documents released by the Office of the Press Secretary and published in
the Federal Register. This information appears in the appendixes at the
end of the book.
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Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan,
George Bush, and William J. Clinton are also included in the Public
Papers series.
The Public Papers of the Presidents publication program is under the
direction of Frances D. McDonald, Managing Editor, Office of the Federal
Register. The series is produced by the Presidential and Legislative
Publications Unit, Gwendolyn J. Henderson, Chief. The Chief Editor of
this book was Karen Howard Ashlin, assisted by Kathleen M. Fargey,
Stephen J. Frattini, Christopher Gushman, Margaret A. Hemmig, Maxine
Hill, Alfred Jones, Stacey A. Mulligan, Lydia C. Poon, Michael J.
Sullivan, and Karen A. Thornton.
The frontispiece and photographs used in the portfolio were supplied
by the White House Photo Office. The typography and design of the book
were developed by the Government Printing Office under the direction of
Bruce R. James, Public Printer.
Raymond A. Mosley
Director of the Federal Register
John W. Carlin
Archivist of the United States
Contents
Foreword . . . v
Preface . . . vii
Cabinet . . . xi
Public Papers of George W. Bush,
January 1-June 30, 2002 . . . 1
Appendix A
Digest of Other White House Announcements . . . 1085
Appendix B
Nominations Submitted to the Senate . . . 1115
Appendix C
Checklist of White House Press Releases . . . 1131
Appendix D
Presidential Documents Published in the Federal
Register . . . 1147
Subject Index . . . A-1
Name Index . . . B-1
Document Categories List . . . C-1
Cabinet
Secretary of State ....................... Colin L. Powell
Secretary of the Treasury ................ Paul H. O'Neill
Secretary of Defense ..................... Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General ......................... John Ashcroft
Secretary of the Interior ................ Gale A. Norton
Secretary of Agriculture ................. Ann M. Veneman
Secretary of Commerce .................... Donald L. Evans
Secretary of Labor ....................... Elaine L. Chao
Secretary of Health and Human
Services ................................. Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development .............................. Mel R. Martinez
Secretary of Transportation .............. Norman Y. Mineta
Secretary of Energy ...................... Spencer Abraham
Secretary of Education ................... Roderick R. Paige
Secretary of Veterans Affairs ............ Anthony J. Principi
Chief of Staff ........................... Andrew H. Card, Jr
Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency ........................ Christine Todd Whitman
United States Trade Representative ....... Robert B. Zoellick
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget..................... Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.
Assistant to the President for
Homeland Security ........................ Tom Ridge
Director of National Drug Control
Policy ................................... John P. Walters
Administration of George W. Bush
2002