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Note: This calendar is based on publicly available information from the campaign, the RNC, the White House, and news accounts. The calendar above shows scheduled stops. The listing below includes impromptu stops and other details, again based on publicly available information. See Rationale, Methodology and Limitations. |
Details
Mon. May 3, 2004
WDC.
President and Mrs. Bush
do a "Yes, America Can" Bus Tour in Michigan. -first bus tour
-Arrival, boards bus at
South Bend Regional Airport in South Bend, IN.
(interviews with local media
on the bus).
-GWB and LB "Ask President
Bush" event at Niles Senior High School in Niles, MI.
-GWB and LB remarks at Wings
Stadium in Kalamazoo, MI.
-GWB rally at Jerome Duncan
Ford Theatre at Freedom Hill, w/ country music star Travis Tritt, in Sterling
Heights (Detroit suburb), MI.
Overnight in Troy, MI.
Tues. May 4, 2004
President Bush does a
"Yes, America Can" Bus Tour in Ohio.
Flight to Toledo.
-Remarks at a breakfast
at Lucas County Recreation Center in Maumee (Toledo suburb), OH.
Flight to Dayton.
-"Ask President Bush" at
Hara Complex in Dayton, OH.
(on the bus GWB does media
interviews with Ohio reporters).
-Remarks at The Golden Lamb
Inn in Lebanon, OH.
-Rally at Cincinnati Gardens,
w/ recording artist Steven Curtis, in Cincinnati, OH.
Wed. May 5, 2004
WDC. -GWB remarks
at RNC Gala at Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. ($)
Thurs. May 6, 2004
WDC. [King Abdullah
II of Jordan]
Fri. May 7, 2004
President and Mrs. Bush
do a "Yes, America Can" Bus Tour in Western Wisconsin (starts in Iowa).
-Remarks at Iowa Send-Off
at Grand River Center in Dubuque, IA.
Unannounced stop at the
Kuhle family farm in Hazel Green (Grant County), WI.
Unannounced stop GWB and
LB make brief remarks at the town square in Lancaster (Grant County), WI.
-"Ask President Bush" event
at Cabela's Distribution Center in Prairie du Chien, WI.
Unannounced stop, greets
customers and gets a cone at Culver's restaurant in Viroqua, WI.
(on the bus GWB does media
interviews with the Quad City Times, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
and the Green Bay Press Gazette).
-Rally at Copeland Baseball
Field (home of the La Crosse Loggers), w/ country music legend Larry Gatlin,
in La Crosse, WI.
Sat. May 8, 2004
Sun. May 9, 2004
GWB and LB spend the weekend
at Camp David.
Mon. May 10, 2004
WDC. -at the
Pentagon reaffirms Iraq commitment
Tues. May 11, 2004
-GWB remarks on the
No Child Left Behind Act at Butterfield Junior High School in Van Buren,
AR.
Returns to WDC.
Wed. May 12, 2004
WDC. [President dos
Santos of Angola]
-GWB participates in a conversation
on Reading First and the No Child Left Behind Act at the National Institutes
of Health in Bethesda, MD.
Thurs. May 13, 2004
-GWB speaks on expanding
opportunities for American students and workers at Parkersburg South High
School in Parkersburg, WV.
WDC. -American
Conservative Union 40th Anniversary
Fri. May 14, 2004
-GWB attends RNC Victory
2004 event at Hunter Engineering Co. in Bridgeton (near St. Louis), MO.
(Raises $2.2 million).
-GWB delivers Commencement
Address at Concordia University in Mequon (Ozaukee County, near Milwaukee),
WI.
Sat. May 15, 2004
Sun. May 16, 2004
Mon. May 17, 2004
-GWB remarks at the Brown
versus Board of Education National Historic Site grand opening in Topeka,
KS.
-GWB attends RNC Victory
2004 dinner at the home of Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli in Atlanta, GA.
(Raises $3.2 million).
Tues. May 18, 2004
WDC. -AIPAC
Wed. May 19, 2004
WDC. [Cabinet meeting.
Prime Minister Berlusconi of Italy]
Thurs. May 20, 2004
WDC. [Pep rally with
Republican lawmakers at the Capitol. Prime Minister Karamanlis of
Greece]
Fri. May 21, 2004
-GWB delivers commencement
address at Lousiana State University's Pete Maravich Assembly Center in
Baton Rouge, LA.
Air Force One to Louis
Armstrong International Airport.
-GWB attends RNC Victory
2004 event at the home of Edward "Trip" and Lisa Ludwig in Metairie, LA.
(Raises $2 million).
To the ranch in Crawford,
TX.
Sat. May 22, 2004
GWB and LB at their ranch
in Crawford, TX. -GWB fall from bicycle.
GWB and LB celebrate daughter
Jenna's graduation from the University of Texas with a dinner party at
Moonshine in Austin, TX.
Sun. May 23, 2004
GWB and LB at their ranch
in Crawford, TX.
GWB and LB celebrate daughter
Barbara's graduation from Yale in New Haven, CT.
Mon. May 24, 2004
-GWB remarks on Iraq at
the United States Army War College in Carlisle, PA.
Tues. May 25, 2004
-GWB conversation on health
care and community health centers at Youngstown State University in Youngstown,
OH.
Note: Youngstown Mayor
George M. McKelvey and others were invited to a private dinner at the White
House in the evening. [Mark Niquette-Columbus Dispatch, May 26, 2005]
Wed. May 26, 2004
WDC. [President Bongo
of Gabon]
Thurs. May 27, 2004
WDC. [President Flores
Perez of El Salvador]
-GWB tours new children's
hospital and discusses health information technology at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center in Nashville, TN.
-GWB attends RNC Victory
2004 reception at the home of Clay Jackson (an executive at BB&T Cooper,
Love & Jackson insurance) in Nashville, TN. (Raises $1.7 million).
Fri. May 28, 2004
WDC. [Prime Minister
Rasmussen of Denmark]
Sat. May 29, 2004
WDC. -dedication
of World War II Memorial.
Sun. May 30, 2004
WDC. -leaders
of Rolling Thunder visit the White House.
Mon. May 31, 2004 -
Memorial Day
Copyright © 2004, 2005 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action