A look at Bush's reversals
(AP) -- President Bush's decision Tuesday to allow his national security
adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to testify publicly before the commission
investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks reversed earlier
White House insistence that she would only appear privately.
Some previous Bush reversals in the face of criticism:
* He argued a federal Department of Homeland Security wasn't needed,
then devised a plan to create one.
* He resisted a commission to investigate Iraq intelligence
failures, but then relented.
* He also initially opposed the creation of the independent
commission to examine if the 2001 attacks could have been prevented,
before getting behind the idea under pressure from victims' families.
* He opposed, and then supported, a two-month extension of the
commission's work, after the panel said protracted disputes over access
to White House documents left too little time.
* He at first said any access to the president by the commission
would be limited to just one hour but relaxed the limit earlier this month.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/30/bush.reversals.ap/index.html
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