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The Bush Legacy - Air Force One Press Gaggle by Dana Perino 12/2/08
— Tuesday, December 02, 2008 —

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President Bush at the roundtable on mentoring children of prisoners initiative

Q Dana, can you talk about the event yesterday, the event today, and I think there's going to be a lot of stuff coming up where the President -- is he intending to highlight some of the successes of his tenure? I mean, is there a concerted effort to do that? There seems to be now a lot of events looking at --

MS. PERINO: We have thought about it.

Q We've done the 2 million plus for the AIDS program, the 110,000 here --

MS. PERINO: Yesterday was World AIDS Day.

Q Yes, I realize there are other reasons. But I'm just saying, is there --

MS. PERINO: Yes, over time we've done different speeches since I think August, talking about the President's record on judicial nominees, and on keeping America safe, on the faith-based -- remember we did the faith-based conference. So, we have looked to opportunities for the President to be able to talk about some of his legacy items, some things that he will be remembered for. He talked about that a little bit yesterday. You saw the Charlie Gibson interview.

So, now is the right time for us to be able to identify some opportunities where the President can either give a speech, or do a roundtable like he's doing today. We don't expect the children, the mentoring of children to be front-page news, but we do want to highlight some of these programs that the President has conceived and announced, and then the goal was exceeded. And we think that it's important for people to realize that while the President of the United States on any given day works on a variety of issues that are pressing and front-page news regarding the economy or terrorist attacks, there are other programs like this one that are changing people's lives one at a time. That's one of the things the President wanted to do through the faith-based initiative.

So we'll talk about this one. He's giving a speech on the Middle East on Friday. So there's a lot of different opportunities, and you'll sort of see them between now and, I guess, 49 days from now.

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At 1:38 PM, Anonymous said...: Bush can't take their press pass away at this point so why is the press still giving this murderous president a free pass? hes still the president! ask him and Perino about the crimes hes committed!, but you wont because you all have a vested interest in NOT reporting the news. zero comments on the entire press corp website? wow...how odd is that?