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Bush to Go to Fort Hood Tomorrow
Aired April 19, 2003 - 13:16 ET
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ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush will go to Fort Hood, Texas, tomorrow to attend Easter services with U.S. Army troops there. in his weekly radio address, the president says, the holidays have special means for the families of our men and women in uniform.
He is at his ranch near Crawford, Texas right now, where CNN's White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux has a live report -- Suzanne.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Andrea. Well, President Bush is spending the long holiday weekend in windy Crawford, Texas, at his ranch, some 1600 acres for rest and relaxation; but the First Lady, key staffers and family and friends.
He is also going to be traveling tomorrow to Fort Hood, Texas. That's where he's going to be attending a church ceremony with the soldiers there. The last time he visited was in January 3. It seems like a long time ago before the war effort, where he shared a lunch with the soldiers and gave them a pep talk, an update on the situation in Iraq.
Fort Hood, as you know, home to some 42,000 troops. Half of those troops now inside of Iraq. And President Bush today in his weekly radio address wanted to praise troops around the world, where he says he recognizes their sacrifice and he is appreciative.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: America mourns those who have been called home and we pray that their families will find God's comfort and God's grace. His purposes are not always clear to us. Yet this season brings a promise that good can come out of evil. That hope can arise from despair and that all of our griefs will some day turn to joy, a joy that can never be taken away.
(END AUDIO CLIP)
MALVEAUX: The president also of course looking at the future of Iraq. Namely, reconstruction, trying to clear the way to lift those U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq, to be able to use oil revenue to help in those reconstruction efforts, to work with the U.N. Security Council, to find those weapons of mass destruction, to go after Saddam Hussein, and of course to help the Iraqis establish their own government.
On the domestic front, looking at the economy as well in the week ahead, he's going to be taking a trip outside of Washington to take his economic stimulus package to the American people trying to pass some $550 billion in tax cuts -- Andrea.
KOPPEL: Read somewhere that they were going to "flood the zone" as they say in football terminology.
Suzanne Malveaux, thanks so much for joining us.
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Aired April 19, 2003 - 13:16 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush will go to Fort Hood, Texas, tomorrow to attend Easter services with U.S. Army troops there. in his weekly radio address, the president says, the holidays have special means for the families of our men and women in uniform.
He is at his ranch near Crawford, Texas right now, where CNN's White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux has a live report -- Suzanne.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Andrea. Well, President Bush is spending the long holiday weekend in windy Crawford, Texas, at his ranch, some 1600 acres for rest and relaxation; but the First Lady, key staffers and family and friends.
He is also going to be traveling tomorrow to Fort Hood, Texas. That's where he's going to be attending a church ceremony with the soldiers there. The last time he visited was in January 3. It seems like a long time ago before the war effort, where he shared a lunch with the soldiers and gave them a pep talk, an update on the situation in Iraq.
Fort Hood, as you know, home to some 42,000 troops. Half of those troops now inside of Iraq. And President Bush today in his weekly radio address wanted to praise troops around the world, where he says he recognizes their sacrifice and he is appreciative.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: America mourns those who have been called home and we pray that their families will find God's comfort and God's grace. His purposes are not always clear to us. Yet this season brings a promise that good can come out of evil. That hope can arise from despair and that all of our griefs will some day turn to joy, a joy that can never be taken away.
(END AUDIO CLIP)
MALVEAUX: The president also of course looking at the future of Iraq. Namely, reconstruction, trying to clear the way to lift those U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq, to be able to use oil revenue to help in those reconstruction efforts, to work with the U.N. Security Council, to find those weapons of mass destruction, to go after Saddam Hussein, and of course to help the Iraqis establish their own government.
On the domestic front, looking at the economy as well in the week ahead, he's going to be taking a trip outside of Washington to take his economic stimulus package to the American people trying to pass some $550 billion in tax cuts -- Andrea.
KOPPEL: Read somewhere that they were going to "flood the zone" as they say in football terminology.
Suzanne Malveaux, thanks so much for joining us.
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