Since President Bush appointed Ms. Monro deputy administrator in 2001, she has vacationed several times with Ms. McAuliffe.

Those are the bleakest assessments since December 1993, and a sharp decline since President Bush took office two years ago.

Thirty-seven soldiers have died there, nearly all since President Bush declared major combat over in May 2003.

The treaty reflects the constructive relationship between the two countries that has developed since President Bush and President Putin held their first meeting last June.

Three weeks have passed since President Bush called on the Liberian president, Charles Taylor, to step aside, and pledged American assistance in restoring security.

For it has been seven years since President Bush and Governor Clinton, along with many other governors, held an education summit and introduced six national educational goals to be reached by 2000.

It's been two months since President Bush, saying he wanted to sign a new rights bill, ordered negotiations with Congress.

Though not a single soldier from Fort Carson was killed during the invasion of Iraq, more than 20 have died since President Bush declared an end to major combat hostilities on May 1.

The American death toll since President Bush proclaimed the end of major combat operations now exceeds the 116 American combat deaths in the war to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Preserving that consensus has been his principal task since President Bush decided to work with the United Nations to force Saddam Hussein's invasion troops out of Kuwait.