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August 2000 News and Events
WorldQueen Mother Turns 100 (Aug. 4): Elizabeth celebrates with three generations of royal family. UN Peacekeepers Reach Lebanon (Aug. 5): Troops fan out along border with Israel after weeks…Anthony J. Principi Biography
Anthony J. PrincipiGeorge W. Bush's secretary of Veterans' Affairs Born: 4/16/1944Birthplace: New York, N.Y. This is Principi's second time as head of Veterans' Affairs. He served as deputy…Robert Gates, 2006 News
public official, became Secretary of Defense in December, succeeding Donald Rumsfeld, who resigned the day after Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate in midterm elections.…John Roberts, 2005 News
judge, was nominated by President Bush in July to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. By all accounts, the Harvard-educated, deeply religious…Matthew Cooper, 2004 News
reporter for Time magazine, was held in contempt of court and jailed in August for refusing to name the government official who revealed to him the identity of an undercover CIA official,…Mohamed ElBaradei, 2003 News
head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, delivered several reports to the UN Security Council on his team's search for nuclear weapons inside Iraq. ElBaradei reported in February that…The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon
The Turkey that Lives to See Another Day Thanksgiving is not just for eating turkey, but it's also a time to pardon some of these large birds according to tradition that started with Presidents in…Obama's Executive Action Delays Deportation of 5 Million Immigrants
Policy does not offer a path to citizenship Related Links Immigration in the U.S. Migrant Minors The Green Card Immigration…Presidential Libraries
These are not traditional libraries, but rather repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, and other historical materials of the presidents since Herbert Hoover. The…Brewer's: Bushman
(Dutch, Boschjesman). Natives of South Africa who live in the “bush”; the aborigines of the Cape; dwellers in the Australian “bush;” a bush farmer. “Bushmen ... are the only nomades in the…Trending
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