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There have been two Bush administrations. The George Herbert Walker Bush administration (1989-1992) which succeeded the Ronald Reagan administration (1981-1988). The George W. Bush administration (2001-2008) consisted of (includes some members of Bush's White House Staff):

Contents 1 List: Members of the Bush Administration 1.1 Notes on Member Listing 2 Resources and articles 2.1 SourceWatch articles on the Bush administration 2.1.1 The George W. Bush administration 2.1.2 Global War on Terrorism 2.1.3 U.S. Government Agencies & Organizations 2.1.3.1 Non-Cabinet-level independent agencies 2.1.3.2 Advisory panels 2.1.4 Other Agencies & Organizations 2.1.5 Previous administrations 2.2 External articles

List: Members of the Bush Administration

• Abraham, Spencer: Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy (DQ); replaced by Samuel W. Bodman during Bush's second term.
• Abrams, Elliott: Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy; appointed during Bush's second term.
• Armitage, Richard L.: Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of State in Bush's first administration (RR + G1).
• Ashcroft, John: John Ashcroft, served as Attorney-General, U.S. Department of Justice in Bush's first administration (G1); White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales replaced Ashcroft during Bush's second term.
• Bartlett, Dan: Dan Bartlett has been named as Counselor to the President during Bush's second term.
• Bloch, Scott J.: Scott J. Bloch, Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel; replaced Elaine D. Kaplan (resigned).
• Bodman, Sam: Samuel W. Bodman; Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; then Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury during Bush's first administration; replaced Spencer Abraham as Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy (DQ), during Bush's second term.
• Bolton, John R.: John R. Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; replaced John D. Negroponte during Bush's second term; to be replaced by Zalmay Khalilzad during Bush's second term. Bolton was not confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
• Bolten, Joshua B.: Joshua B. Bolten, Presidential Chief of Staff during Bush's second term; replaced Andrew H. Card, Jr., who resigned March 28, 2006.; previously served as Director, Office of Management and Budget (replaced Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.).
• Cambone, Stephen Anthony: Stephen A. Cambone, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, U.S. Department of Defense.
• Card, Andrew H.: Andrew H. Card, Jr., Presidential Chief of Staff during Bush's first term, resigned March 28, 2006. (RR + G1) Card was replaced by Joshua B. Bolten.
• Carmona, Richard Henry: Richard Henry Carmona, Surgeon General.
• Chao, Elaine: Elaine L. Chao, Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor (RR + G1)
• Chellaraj, Rajkumar: Rajkumar Chellaraj nominated to be Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State.
• Cheney, Richard: Richard Cheney (R-WY), Vice-President (GF + G1)
• Chertoff, Michael: Michael Chertoff replaced Tom Ridge as Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, during Bush's second term.
• Clement, Paul D.: Paul D. Clement, Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, replaced Theodore B. Olson, who resigned.
• Cox, Christopher: Christopher Cox, member Securities and Exchange Commission July 29, 2005, replaced William H. Donaldson, who resigned.
• Crocker, Ryan: Ryan Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; to replace Zalmay Khalilzad as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. [1]
• Crouch, Jack D. II: Jack D. Crouch II named as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor in the second Bush administration.
• Daniels, Mitchell E.: Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.[2], Director, Office of Management and Budget in the first Bush administration; replaced by Joshua B. Bolten.
• Devenish, Nicolle: Nicolle Devenish, Assistant to the President for Communications in the second Bush administration.
• Donaldson, William H.: William H. Donaldson resigned as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission June 1, 2005; replaced Harvey L. Pitt
• Evans, Donald: Donald Evans, Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce (G2); replaced by Carlos M. Gutierrez during Bush's second term.
• Fleischer, Ari: Ari Fleischer, first White House Press Secretary (G2); replaced by Scott McClellan.
• Friedman, Stephen: Stephen Friedman, Chairman of the National Economic Council; replaced Lawrence Lindsey (G2) (resigned).
• Gates, Robert M.: Robert M. Gates nominated November 8, 2006, as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense; replaced Donald H. Rumsfeld, who resigned.
• Gerson, Michael J.: Michael J. Gerson has been nominated to be Assistant to the President for Policy and Strategic Planning.
• Gonzales, Alberto R.: Alberto R. Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General (U.S. Department of Justice) (G2) second Bush administration; Office of Counsel/White House Counsel (G2) first administration.
• Goss, Porter J.: Porter J. Goss, Director, Central Intelligence Agency during Bush's second administration; replaced George J. Tenet.
• Greenspan, Alan: Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board (RR + G1 + BC).
• Griffin, Michael D.: Michael D. Griffin is Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the second Bush administration, vice Sean O'Keefe, who resigned.
• Gutierrez, Carlos M.: Carlos M. Gutierrez replaced Don Evans as Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce (G2), during Bush's second term.
• Hawley, Edmund S. "Kip": Edmund S. Hawley is Director of the Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
• Jackson, Alphonso: Alphonso Jackson, was appointed Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to replace Mel Martinez (G2). [3]
• Johanns, Mike: Mike Johanns replaced Ann Veneman as Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture during Bush's second term.
• Johnson, Stephen L.: Stephen L. Johnson is Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Joseph, Robert: Robert Joseph is Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, vice John R. Bolton.
• Kaplan, Elaine D.: Elaine D. Kaplan Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel(resigned); replaced by Scott J. Bloch.
• Khalilzad, Zalmay: Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq since March 2005; to become U.S. Ambassador to United Nations, replacing John R. Bolton during Bush's second term. Khalilzad is to be replaced by Ryan Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan. [4]
• Kempthorne, Dirk: Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior (nominated March 16, 2006) during Bush's second term; would replace Gale A. Norton, who resigned March 10, 2006.
• Leavitt, Mike: Michael Leavitt, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in second Bush administration; Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the first Bush administration, replaced Christine Todd Whitman (quit).
• Lindsey, Lawrence: Lawrence Lindsey(G2), first Chairman of the National Economic Council (resigned); replaced by Stephen Friedman.
• Lute, Douglas: Douglas Lute, named as White House "War Czar" May 15, 2007.
• McClellan, Scott: Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary (G2); replaced Ari Fleischer (G2).
• McConnell, John Michael: Mike McConnell to become Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to replace John D. Negroponte, who is stepping down to become Deputy Secretary of State under Condoleezza Rice. [5]
• McGurn, William: William McGurn, Assistant to the President for Speechwriting (G2) during Bush's second administration.
• Martin, Kevin J.: Kevin J. Martin, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (G2), replaced Michael Powell (G2).
• Miers, Harriet E.: Harriet E. Miers, Office of Counsel/White House Counsel (G2) during Bush's second administration; nominated as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; submitted resignation January 2007. [6]
• Mineta, Norman Y.: Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation (BC); resigned and replaced by Mary E. Peters during Bush's second administration.
• Mueller, Robert: Robert Mueller, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Nakayama, Granta: Granta Nakayama, heads the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), the enforcement division of the Environmental Protection Agency, during Bush's second term (G2).
• Negroponte, John D.: John D. Negroponte, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; next became first Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; stepping down to become Deputy Secretary of State under Condoleezza Rice; replaces Robert B. Zoellick, who resigned. [7]
• Nicholson, R. James "Jim": R. James "Jim" Nicholson, Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the second Bush administration (U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican and former Republican National Committee chair); resigned July 17, 2007, effective October 1, 2007.
• Norton, Gail A.: Gale A. Norton, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior (RR + G1) in Bush's first administration; resigned March 10, 2006.
• O'Neill, Paul: Paul O'Neill, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury in the first Bush administration (GF)(resigned); replaced by John Snow.
• Paige, Rod: Rod Paige, Secretary, U.S. Department of Education (G2) in the first Bush administration; replaced by Margaret Spellings during Bush's second administration.
• Paulson, Henry M., Jr.: Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury during Bush's second administration; replaced John Snow.
• Pitt, Harvey L.: Harvey L. Pitt; first Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; replaced by William H. Donaldson.
• Portman, Robert J.: Robert J. Portman, Ambassador, U.S. Trade Representative (G2); replaced Robert B. Zoellick.
• Powell, Colin: Colin L. Powell, Secretary, U.S. Department of State (RR + G1) in the first Bush administration; replaced by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in Bush's second administration.
• Preston, Steve: Steve Preston, Administrator of the Small Business Association in Bush's second administration.
• Principi, Anthony J.: Anthony J. Principi, Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (RR + G1) in Bush's first administration; replaced by R. James "Jim" Nicholson during Bush's second administration.
• Rice, Condoleeza: Condoleezza Rice, Secretary, U.S. Department of State (G2) during Bush's second administration; National Security Advisor (G2) during first administration.
• Ridge, Tom: Tom Ridge, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (formed 2001); New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik was nominated to replace Ridge during Bush's second term, but withdrew from consideration after various concerns were raised; Michael Chertoff replaced Ridge during Bush's second administration.
• Rove, Karl: Karl Rove, Assistant to the President, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and White House Senior Advisor (G2).
• Rumsfeld, Donald: Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense (RN + GF), resigned November 8, 2006; replaced by Robert M. Gates.
• Snow John: John Snow, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury during Bush's first administration, replaced Paul O'Neill (GF) (resigned); replaced by Henry M. Paulson, Jr. during Bush's second administration.
• Spellings, Margaret: Margaret Spellings replaced Rod Paige as Secretary, U.S. Department of Education (G2), during Bush's second administration.
• Tenet, George J.: George J. Tenet, Director, Central Intelligence Agency (BC) in Bush's first administration; replaced by Porter J. Goss.
• Thompson, Tommy: Tommy Thompson, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during Bush's first administration; replaced by EPA chief Michael Leavitt in Bush's second administration.
• Tobias, Randall L.: Randall L. Tobias nominated to be Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
• Towey, Jim: Jim Towey is Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives.
• Truscott, Carl J.: Carl J. Truscott, Director of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in both first and second Bush administrations.
• Tschetter, Ronald A.: Ronald A. Tschetter nominated to be Director of the United States Peace Corps, vice Gaddi H. Vasquez, who resigned.
• Vasquez, Gaddi H.: Gaddi H. Vasquez, Director of the United States Peace Corps in Bush's first administration; nominated to be United States Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture with the rank of Ambassador in the second Bush administration.
• Veneman, Ann: Ann M. Veneman, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture (RR + G1); replaced by Mike Johanns during Bush's second administration.
• Wainstein, Kenneth L.: Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security (new position) during Bush's second administration.
• Walters, John P.: John P. Walters, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy (G1).
• Whitman, Christine Todd: Christine Todd Whitman, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (quit) in Bush's first administration; replaced by Michael Leavitt.
• Zoellick, Robert B.: Robert B. Zoellick, Ambassador, U.S. Trade Representative (RR + G1) in Bush's first administration; Deputy Secretary of State in Bush's second administration, replaced Richard L. Armitage, who resigned; resigned as Deputy Secretary of State; to be replaced by John D. Negroponte.

Notes on Member Listing

Since there are many figures in common between the Ronald Reagan (RR), whose Vice-President George Herbert Walker Bush (G1) inherited the White House, and the George W. Bush (G2) eras, the term Bush League has come into use to describe this group as a whole.

Several others come to the George W. Bush administration with experience gained in other previous administrations: Richard M. Nixon (RN), J. Danforth Quayle (DQ), Gerald R. Ford (GF) or Bill Clinton (BC)).

Resources and articles

SourceWatch articles on the Bush administration

See also Category:George W. Bush administration

The George W. Bush administration

Stages

• beginning of the end
• Lame Duck Presidency

State of the Union addresses:

• State of the Union 2003
• State of the Union 2004
• State of the Union 2005
• State of the Union 2006

Impeachment

• Efforts to initiate the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney
• Impeach07 Campaign
• The case for impeachment of President George W. Bush

Corruption

• Enron connection
• cronyism and incompetence
• financial misconduct and lack of accountability
• lies and deceptions
• misuse of government agencies controversy
• Republican 'culture of corruption'

Executive powers

• Executive Order
• Executive Privilege
• presidential signing statements
• Unitary Executive Theory
• Bush administration vs. the U.S. Constitution

Secrecy

• Bush administration fetish for government secrecy

See also the "War on Terror" section below.

Issues

• Avian flu pandemic / Bush Administration Plan for Flu Outbreaks
• Gun violence
• Health care: Citizens' Health Care Working Group
• Hurricane Katrina / Hurricane Rita
• Illegal immigration / immigration reform
  • U.S. National Guard Troops along the U.S.-Mexico border
• Judicial nominees
• Social Security privatization
• U.S. trade deficit
• U.S. budget deficit
• U.S. economy
• U.S. tax cuts
• U.S. minimum wage
• U.S. unemployment
• war on drugs
• war on poverty

Changes to federal government

• Competitive Sourcing Initiative
• doomsday line of Pentagon succession
• militarization of government

Misc

• approval ratings
• Inaugural Message 2005
• Bush/Republican Initiatives
• Bush administration investigations
• leaks
• presidential line of succession
• presidential pardons
• Project for the New American Century (PNAC members in key positions in the administration)
• religion and empire / The Bush Theocracy
• return to space / weaponization of space
• Bush-Bush Cabal
• U.S. presidential election, 2004
• Patrick Henry College (Bush has close relationship with)

Critiques

• opportunism
• flip flops
• Mayberry Machiavellis
• pattern of excess
• Bush administration phony 'voter fraud'
• Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception
• Bush regime delusions
• Georgeland
• personal data leaks and invasion of privacy
• Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal Deception

Scandals

• scandals
• Treasongate
• Trial of Scooter Libby
• U.S. attorney firings controversy

Spin and public relations

• Bush's 2002 LA "hijack" Story
• "Bush the Victim"
• Clear Channel Communications connection
• Loyalty Day, 2007
• Orwellian logic
• Photographic manipulation
• The press & Bush / free press
• Propaganda and disinformation
• Rebranding the Bush administration
• Smear campaigns
• Treating dissent as treason
• U.S. Government PR Contracts
• Using fear as a political tool
• Video news releases

Global War on Terrorism

Civil liberties and privacy

• Domestic spying
  • Bank records spying
  • Phone records spying
• Individual rights versus national security
• USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005
• Warrantless wiretapping
• Patriot Act I / Patriot Act II

Torture and detainees

• Abu Ghraib
• Enemy combatant
• Extraordinary rendition
• Global detention system
• Military Commissions Act of 2006
• Torture and the Bush administration

Iraq

• Adapting to win
• The alleged linkage of Saddam Hussein with Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction
• Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
• Baker-Hamilton Commission
• Bush's 16 words
• Civil war in Iraq
• Embolden the terrorists
• Exit Strategy from Iraq
• Funding the war in Iraq
• Future of Iraq Project
• Iraq as an imminent threat
• Iraq Study Group
• Iraq War Powers Repeal Act of 2006
• Is the Iraq mission a failure?
• Lies that led to war
• The Long War
• "Mission Accomplished" May 1, 2003
• National Intelligence Estimate
• New Iraq
• Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • 2003 invasion of Iraq
• Oil and War in Iraq
• Rationales for war in Iraq
• Post-war Iraq
• Talking points on Iraq
• Saddam Hussein
• War crimes in Iraq
• War in Iraq
• "We're kicking ass" in Iraq
• Weapons of mass destruction

Afghanistan

• Operation Enduring Freedom
• Opium economy in Afghanistan
• The Other War: Afghanistan

Misc.

• Al Qaeda
• Axis of Evil—Iraq, Iran, North Korea
• Bush doctrine
• Forward strategy of freedom
• Greater Middle East Initiative
• National security clearances and sexual orientation
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
• Osama bin Laden
• outposts of tyranny
• Pax Americana
• September 11, 2001
• Spreading the seeds of democracy
• Stay the course
• Taking the fight to the terrorists
• "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama)
• War in Iran
• war on terror / war on terrorism
• Homeland Defense 2001
• homeland security

U.S. Government Agencies & Organizations

• Executive Office of the President
  • White House Staff
    • Lone Star Team (Bush's staff from Texas)
  • National Economic Council
  • National Security Council (NSC)
  • Office of Counsel (a.k.a. White House Counsel)
  • Office of Global Communications
  • Office of Management and Budget
  • Office of National Drug Control Policy
  • U.S. Trade Representative
  • President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

• Office of the Director of National Intelligence
  • National Clandestine Service
  • National Counterproliferation Center (NCPC)
  • National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  • Broadcast Media & Technology Center (BMTC)
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• U.S. Department of Commerce

• U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
  • Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission
  • Defense Policy Board
  • Information Operations Task Force
  • Office of Special Plans / Northern Gulf Affairs Office
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • Office of Strategic Influence

• U.S. Department of Education

• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

• U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
  • U.S. Customs Service and Border Patrol
  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

• U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• U.S. Department of Labor
  • Department of Labor's Women's Bureau

• U.S. Department of State
  • Department of State "rapid response office"

• U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
  • AMTRAK

• U.S. Department of the Treasury

• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Non-Cabinet-level independent agencies

• Export-Import Bank of the United States
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Federal Election Commission (FEC)
• Federal Reserve Board
• General Services Administration (GSA)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Science Board (a.k.a. National Science Foundation)
• Office of Special Counsel
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• United States Peace Corps
• United States Arctic Research Commission

Advisory panels

• President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform
• President's Council on Bioethics
• President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
• President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
• The Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults
• Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
• Junkyard Dogs (The "Junkyard Dogs" are participants in the Nye-Armitage Report, Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS): The US and Japan: Advancing Toward A Mature Partnership.)

Other Agencies & Organizations

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Board of Governors of the American National Red Cross

Previous administrations

• Bill Clinton
  • administration
• George H.W. Bush
  • administration
• Richard Nixon
  • administration
• Ronald Reagan
  • administration

External articles