[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

                        ________________________

                               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 
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name indexes, and listed in the document categories list.

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                                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