George W. Bush: “I have appeared at public events where I have discussed issues pertaining to the economy or housing at least 28 times.”

Congratulations on becoming our President.

For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence—a time set apart.

Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.

This memorandum is intended to improve the internal management of the executive branch and is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the…