George W. Bush: “I appreciate his willingness to serve and his leadership as Secretary of Veterans Affairs.”

We are grateful to the first responders and volunteers who are working to find the missing and comfort the grieving at Camp Mystic and along the Guadalupe.

To you and the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

I hereby find that the furnishing of defense articles and defense services to the Southern African Development Community will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace.

We learned that bravery is more common than we imagined, emerging with sudden splendor in the face of death.