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Briefing by Fleischer 23/7 - Harken And Haliburton
Wednesday, 24 July 2002, 9:52 am | The White House
MR. FLEISCHER: Good afternoon. The President this morning began his day with a CIA briefing, followed by a briefing by the FBI. Then the President signed into law the Yucca Nuclear Waste Repository Act. Following that, the President in the East Room ... More >>
Bush Calls For Corporate Honesty In Radio Address
Tuesday, 23 July 2002, 11:04 am | The White House
"Unethical business practices by corporate leaders amount to theft and fraud. These practices are unacceptable, and we are fighting them with active prosecutions and tough enforcement by the SEC. We will defend the rights and interests of every American ... More >>
Bush Asks For Quick Action on Corporate Governance
Tuesday, 23 July 2002, 11:01 am | The White House
And, you know, when I was -- when I used to watch the stocks, I was in Midland, Texas, somewhat skeptical about what was taking place on the floors of these exchanges. More >>
Fleischer Briefing July 16 - Harken & Halliburton
Wednesday, 17 July 2002, 10:25 am | The White House
MR. FLEISCHER: Good afternoon. The President this morning had his usual CIA briefing, which was followed by an FBI briefing. And then the President met with members of Congress on the Department of Homeland Security to discuss the importance of Congress ... More >>
Interview of the George Bush by Polish Journalists
Tuesday, 16 July 2002, 1:52 pm | The White House
THE PRESIDENT: I'm looking forward to our State Dinner. It's a chance for me to, on a personal level, repay the favor of my friend, Aleksander, for his great hospitality to Laura and me when we visited he and Jolanta there in Warsaw. Secondly, it's a ... More >>
The Prosperity Speech That Sent The Dow Tumbling
Tuesday, 16 July 2002, 1:50 pm | The White House
The President's Agenda for Long-Term Growth & Prosperity Remarks by the President on the Economy Birmingham, Alabama More >>
Radio Address by the President to the Nation
Sunday, 14 July 2002, 10:48 am | The White House
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Congress came back to Washington this week and they have a lot of work ahead of them before the August vacation. I urge the Congress to join me in acting to achieve three big goals: We need to win the war, we need ... More >>
Fleischer Briefing July 12 - More Haken Energy
Saturday, 13 July 2002, 1:08 pm | The White House
Q Ari, Congressman Waxman from the House wrote a letter to the President today in which he says: you have a rare opportunity to exemplify the standards our nation needs; if you donate all or a portion of the profits from the sale of your Harken ... More >>
Fleischer Briefing July 10th - Harken & Haliburton
Friday, 12 July 2002, 1:02 pm | The White House
CONTENTS President's schedule for the day Statement on emergency funding Reference B Reference C Reference D Suit against Halliburton Iraq Reference B Corporate responsibility/Harken stock sale Reference B Reference C Reaction to President's speech Afghanistan/U.S. ... More >>
A New Ethic of Corporate Responsibility (Summary)
Wednesday, 10 July 2002, 10:27 am | The White House
Today in New York President Bush will call for a new ethic of responsibility in America's corporate community. The President wants to expose and punish acts of corruption, move corporate accounting out of the shadows, and protect small investors and pension ... More >>
Establishment of the Corporate Fraud Task Force
Wednesday, 10 July 2002, 10:25 am | The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to strengthen the efforts of the Department of Justice and Federal, State, and local agencies to investigate and prosecute significant ... More >>
A New Ethic of Corporate Responsibility
Wednesday, 10 July 2002, 10:24 am | The White House
Today, in New York, President Bush is calling for a new ethic of personal responsibility in America's business community. The President wants to expose and punish acts of corruption, move corporate accounting out of the shadows, and protect small investors ... More >>
Bush Announces Tough New Enforcement Initiatives
Wednesday, 10 July 2002, 10:22 am | The White House
President Announces Tough New Enforcement Initiatives for Reform Remarks by the President on Corporate Responsibility Regent Wall Street Hotel New York, New York More >>
Bush Press Conference - I Am Not A Crook
Tuesday, 9 July 2002, 11:39 am | The White House
Q Mr. President, the Democrat have signaled that they are going to make your behavior while a director at Harken an election-year issue. There's an ad out today which is relatively new. I know you said this has been vetted before -- I mean, I've heard ... More >>
Independence Day, 2002 - Bush Proclamation
Friday, 5 July 2002, 12:59 am | The White House
Each year on Independence Day, Americans honor and celebrate the courageous action that our Nation's Founders took on July 4, 1776 -- the signing of the Declaration of Independence. With that brave and profound decision, the Founders demonstrated ... More >>
Press Briefing - Damage Control On Harken Energy
Friday, 5 July 2002, 12:57 am | The White House
Ari Fleischer - This is one of the most widely reported stories of the '90s and then going into the campaign. It's been an issue in his campaigns that political opponents have raised against him, going back to 1994, in his first campaign ever for office. More >>
Bush Denies Harken Energy SEC Filing Breaches
Thursday, 4 July 2002, 11:13 am | The White House
Q Do you have any response, there's this columnist in the New York Times today who says that your role on the Board of Harken Energy back in the 1980s and its sale of Aloha Petroleum, your sale of stock, that amounts to the same kind of corporate ... More >>
Corrupt Corporate Executives To be Held To Account
Monday, 1 July 2002, 1:56 pm | The White House
I think we've got the right fiscal policy in place, the right monetary policy, seems like it's good. People are concerned, however, about whether or not the balance sheets of corporate America are open, whether or not the numbers are real. More >>
President Bush's Radio Address - WorldCom Scandal
Monday, 1 July 2002, 1:55 pm | The White House
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, we learned of another deeply troubling accounting scandal at a major American corporation. Reports allege that the company hid nearly $4 billion in expenses, and reported profits when it may have actually lost more ... More >>
G8: White House Briefing Day Three, NSA Dr. Rice
Friday, 28 June 2002, 11:16 am | The White House
DR. RICE: Thank you. I just have a few brief comments. This summit was extremely important for a number of the President's foreign policy priorities, and I just want to concentrate on two in particular. This is, of course, the first post-9/11 G8 summit, ... More >>
