Documenting the Bush Presidency

The Hofstra University Conference on the George W. Bush Presidency will take place March 24-26, 2015. Hofstra has a long and distinguished tradition of hosting conferences on the administrations of all the Presidents of the United States who have served during the University's lifetime, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt forward. During each conference, Hofstra brings together scholars, policy makers, and journalists for a series of panels and roundtables to discuss a president's campaign, political leadership, policy agenda, and legacy. The University has published volumes of selected articles and commentary from every conference, which have become standard scholarly volumes and early oral histories of each presidency.

This document package is based on key speeches delivered by President Bush prior to and during his Presidency. They are presented in chronological order. Most of the speeches are available in their entirety at the website http://www.presidentialrhetoric.com. This package was developed for the Bush Presidential Conference by students, teachers, and faculty in the Hofstra University Social Studies Education Program including Brian Governanti, Rocco Graziosi, Eric Mace, Amanda Nardo, James Oakes, Alan Singer, and Corinne Spaeth.