Decision Points
second-guessing and criticism regarding
“silent surge” of 2006
Africa, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
visits to, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Malaria Initiative, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 See also AIDS policy
African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
Agris, Joe
Aguirre, Eduardo
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, Chapter 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
AIDS policy
ABC prevention strategy, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
Bush daughters’ involvement
African visits and, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
goals of
International Mother and Child HIV Prevention Initiative
international support
as key element of Bush foreign policy
managers for, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9
war on terror and, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
Air Force One, Chapter 5.1, 5.2
airline security
Alexander, Lamar
Alito, Samuel, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 10.1
Allbaugh, Joe, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 10.2
Allen, Vice Adm. Thad, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
Allison, Jimmy, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
al Qaeda, Chapter 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 14.1
American International Group (AIG), Chapter 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Ana’s Story (Bush)
Andover (Phillips Academy)
Annan, Kofi
Annapolis peace conference of 2007
anthrax attack
Apple, Johnny
Aquariums of Pyongyang (Kang)
Arafat, Yasser, Chapter 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6
Armitage, Richard
arms control
Armstrong, Anne and Tobin
Ashcroft, John, Chapter 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit
Assad, Basher, Chapter 13.1, 13.2
Atkins, Thane
Atta, Mohamed
Atwater, Lee
Austin, Roy
auto industry loans
Awakening movement, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
Aznar, José Maria, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
B
Bachman, John
Badger, Doug
Bagge, Sgt. Christian
Baker, James, Chapter 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Balkenende, Jan Peter
Bandar, Prince of Saudi Arabia
Bank of America, Chapter 14.1, 14.2
Barak, Ehud
Barbour, Haley, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Barclays
Barroso, José, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Barry, John
Bartlett, Dan, Chapter 1.1, 2.1 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1
baseball, Chapter 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 9.1
Baucus, Max
Beamer, Todd
Bear Stearns
Beckwith, Bob
Bellmon, Henry
Benedict, G. Grenville
Benedict XVI, Pope
Bennett, Robert
Bentsen, Lloyd, Chapter 1.1, 3.1
Bergner, Gen. Kevin
Berlusconi, Silvio
Bernanke, Ben, Chapter 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9
Beschloss, Michael
Betts, Roland and Lois
Bhutto, Benazir
Biden, Joe, Chapter 8.1, 11.1, 12.1
Biloxi, Mississippi, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
Bin Laden, Osama, Chapter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
Bishop, Nina
Bixby, Lydia
Blahous, Chuck
Blair, Cherie
Blair, Tony, Chapter 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Blanco, Kathleen, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7
Blasingame, Ken
Blix, Hans, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Blount, Red, Chapter 1.1, 2.2
Blum, John Morton, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
Blunt, Roy
Boehner, John, Chapter 9.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Bolten, Josh, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, Epilogue
chief of staff, selection as
Boni, Yayi
Bono, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
border security programs, Chapter 9.1, 9.2
Botswana, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
Boyd, James
Bracero Program
Brave New World (Huxley)
Breaux, John
Bremer, L. Paul “Jerry,” Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.4
Brenly, Bob
Bridges, Calvin
Broder, David
Brokaw, Tom
Brooks, Mike
Brown, Bobby
Brown, Gordon
Brown, Mike, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Buchanan, Pat
budget deficits
Bullock, Bob, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Burger, Warren
Burke, Sir Edmund
Burkina Faso
Bush, Barbara [daughter], Chapter 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, Epilogue
AIDS work
Bush’s decision to run for presidency
presidential campaign of 2004
Bush, Barbara Pierce [mother], Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, Epilogue
Bush’s relationship with
daughter’s death
miscarriage
parenting style
Bush, Bucky
Bush, Columba Garnica, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
Bush, Doro, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 13.1
Bush, Dorothy Walker, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
Bush, George H.W., Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, Epilogue
Bush’s congressional campaign, Chapter 2.1, 2.2
Bush’s relationship with, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
daughter’s death
disaster-relief fundraising with Clinton
governorship of George W. Bush
high-level government positions in 1970s, Chapter 1.1, 3.2
humor of
Iraq war, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
military career
oil industry career, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
parenting style
presidential campaign of 1980
Senate campaigns, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
vice presidency
at Yale See also Presidency of George H.W. Bush
Bush, George W.
at Andover
baseball team ownership
childhood and youth, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
China visit in 1975
congressional campaign
congressional districting, views on
death penalty, views on
drinking habit, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
DUI incident, Chapter 1.1, 3.1
education of, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
as father
fiftieth birthday
fortieth birthday
freedom, philosophy of
Gambia visit in 1990
habitual personality
at Harvard Business School, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
humor of
memoir writing, approach to, xi–xii
military career, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
oil industry career, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
political experiences prior to 1977
post-White House life
presidential campaigns of G.H.W. Bush, Chapter 2.1, 2.2
racism charge, rejection of
religious life, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, Epilogue
work experiences
at Yale See also Governorship of George W. Bush; Presidency of George W. Bush; specific persons
Bush, Jeb, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Florida governorship, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 10.1
Bush, Jenna, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, Epilogue
AIDS work
Bush’s decision to run for presidency
marriage of
presidential campaign of 2004 See Hager, Jenna Bush
Bush, Laura Welch, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9, 11.10, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 13.9, 13.10, Epilogue
Bush’s decision to run for presidency
Bush’s drinking habit, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
courtship and wedding
pregnancy and birth of daughters
Bush, Marvin, Chapter 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 13.1
Bush, Neil, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
Bush, Noelle
Bush, Prescott, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 9.1
Bush, Robin, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
Bush Doctrine, Chapter 5.1, 13.1
Bush Presidential Center
Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford
Butler Report
Byrd, Robert
C
Caldwell, Kirbyjon, Chapter 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2
Callahan, Dan
Campbell, Alastair
Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
Camp David, Chapter 7.1, 7.2
Capretta, Jim
Card, Andy, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 14.1
chief of staff, selection as
Card, Kathi
Carson, Benjamin
Carter, Jimmy, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 14.1
Cartwright, Hoss
Carwardine, Richard
Case for Democracy, The (Sharansky)
Casey, Bob
Casey, Gen. George, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6
Catholic Church
Ceausescu, Nicolai
Cellucci, Paul
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Chapter 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 13.1
Afghanistan war, Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
interrogation program, Chapter 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Iraq war, Chapter 8.1, 8.2
terrorist attacks of September 2001
Chalabi, Ahmed
Chapman, Valerie and John
Chavez, Hugo, Chapter 4.1, 12.1, 13.1
Cheney, Dick, Chapter 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Iraq war, Chapter 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 12.1
Libby pardon case, Chapter 3.1, 3.2
terrorist attacks of September 2001, Chapter 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
vice president, selection as, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Cheney, Liz
Cheney, Lynne, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 9.1
Cheney, Mary, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 9.1
Chertoff, Mike, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Chicago Tribune, Chapter 11.1
Chiles, Eddie, Chapter 2.1, 2.2
Chiles, Lawton
China, Chapter 1.1, 6.1, 13.1, 13.2
freedom agenda and
Chirac, Jacques, Chapter 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Chrétien, Jean, Chapter 5.1, 11.1, 13.1
Churchill, Winston
Citigroup
Clay family
Cleland, Max
Clement, Edith Brown
Cleveland, Robin
climate change
Clinton, Bill, Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 14.1, Epilogue
Clinton, Hillary, Chapter 8.1, 14.1
Coats, Dan
Code Pink organization
Coffin, William Sloane
Cohen, Eliot
Colson, Chuck, Chapter 9.1, 9.2
Comey, Jim, Chapter 6.1, 6.2
Compton, Ann
Congress, Chapter 8.1, 10.1 14.1
Afghanistan war
AIDS policy, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
border security programs
Bush’s relations with
codification of counterterrorism programs into law, Chapter 6.1, 6.2
education reform
elections of 2006
financial crisis of 2008, Chapter 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Gulf war of 1990
immigration reform
Iraq war, Chapter 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6
Medicare reform, Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
PATRIOT Act, Chapter 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Social Security reform, Chapter 9.1, 9.2
stem cell research funding, Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Supreme Court confirmations
tax cuts, Chapter 14.1, 14.2
Terrorist Surveillance Program, Chapter 6.1, 6.2
war on terror, support for, Chapter 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Congressional Black Caucus
congressional districting
Conway, James
Cooley, Denton
Coutinho, Alex
Cowden, Frank
Cox, Archibald
Cox, Chris
Craig, Mark
Crenshaw, Ben and Julie
Crocker, Ryan, Chapter 7.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7
Crouch, J.D., Chapter 6.1, 12.1
Customs Service
D
Dahlan, Mohammad
Dalai Lama
Daley, Bill
Danforth, Jack, Chapter 3.1, 3.2
Daniels, Mitch, Chapter 14.1, 14.2
Daniels, Sandra Kay
Daschle, Tom, Chapter 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1
Dean, Howard, Chapter 9.1, 12.1
death penalty
debt relief
DeLay, Tom
Denogean, Sgt. Guadalupe
Dereliction of Duty (McMaster)
DeWitt, Bill, Chapter 1.1, 2.1
Dickey, Jay
Dilulio, John
Dodd, Chris
Dole, Bob
Domenici, Pete
Dubai
Duelfer, Charles
Dukakis, Michael, Chapter 2.1, 3.1
Dybul, Mark, Chapter 11.1 11.2
E
Eagleton, Tom
Edna Gladney Home
Edson, Gary
education reform, Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2
Edwards, John, Chapter 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Egypt
Eisenhower, Dwight, Chapter 3.1, 4.1, 10.1, 12.1
ElBaradei, Mohamed
Elizabeth II, Queen
Engelbrecht, Benny
Engler, John
Ensenat, Don
Evans, Don, Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1 2.2 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Evans, Susie, Chapter 1.1, 1.2
Evans, Tony
F
Faith-based programs
Fallon, Adm. Fox
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Chapter 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
Faubus, Orval
Fauci, Tony, Chapter 11.1 11.2
Fayyad, Salam
Feaver, Peter
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Chapter 5.1, 6.1 6.2, 6.3
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
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Federal Reserve
financial crisis of 2008, Chapter 14.1, 14.2
AIG rescue, Chapter 14.1, 14.2
auto industry rescue
avoidance of future crises, Bush’s views on
Bush’s address to American people
capital injections into struggling banks
Fannie and Freddie rescue
international summit on
origins of
presidential campaign of 2008 and
results of Bush initiatives
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Chapter 14.1, 14.2
Wall Street failures, Chapter 14.1, 14.2
White House meeting with congressional leaders
financial regulation
First National Bank of Midland
Fitzgerald, Patrick
Fleischer, Ari, Chapter 5.1, 5.2
Florida recount of 2000
Ford, Gerald, Chapter 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, Epilogue
foreign aid, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
Fornea, Stan
Fox, Michael J.
Fox, Vicente, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
Francis, Jim
Frank, Barney
Franks, Gen. Tommy
Afghanistan war, Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Iraq war, Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
freedom agenda
China and
Iranian nuclear program and
Israeli-Hezbollah war and
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
Lebanon and, Chapter 13.1, 13.2
Liberia and
Middle East as focus of, Chapter 13.1, 13.2
NATO expansion, Chapter 13.1, 13.2
North Korean nuclear weapons program and, Chapter 3.1, 13.1
philosophy of
Russia and
setbacks for
Syrian nuclear weapons program and
trade and
Freeman, Brad
Friedman, Steve
Frist, Bill, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1
G
Gaddis, John Lewis
Gambia
Ganci, Pete
Garner, Jay
Gates, Bob, Chapter 3.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6
same-sex marriage issue
Geithner, Tim, Chapter 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
General Motors (GM)
Geneva Conventions, Chapter 6.1, 6.2
Georgia, Chapter 13.1, 13.2
Gephardt, Dick
Gerson, Mike, Chapter 5.1, 11.1
Ghana
Gillespie, Ed, Chapter 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Giuliani, Rudy, Chapter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 10.1
Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Global Health Corps
Global Mamas
Gonzales, Alberto, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 7.1
Gore, Al, Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 9.1
Gottesman, Blake
governorship of George W. Bush