In the 12 days between his second inaugural speech, replete with religious references, and his State of the Union address, delivered in more secular tones, President George W. Bush enjoyed what ...

George W. Bush began to take part in a Bible study group in 1985, after two decades of binge drinking. For two years he studied the Scriptures and put his heavy drinking behind him. By signing up, you ...

For the overlapping set of people who both watch the State of the Union and care about linguistic analysis—still with us?—tallying up words from each year’s address is its own kind of Washington ...

Today is former US President, George HW Bush's funeral. His body will be buried beside that of his late wife, former First Lady, Barbara. They were married for more than 70 years. There’s been much ...

Reading and listening to coverage of the death of George Bush, my thoughts turned, naturally, to his use of language. Most notably, for a one-term president, he was responsible for (I would say) far ...

President Bush says he now sees that tough talk can have an “unintended consequence.” During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, the president, who not long ago declined to ...

So President Bush is human. So what? So President Bush speaks in the vernacular. So what? At least now the world can realize that he is fed up with the stupidity, insanity and hopelessness of the ...

Foreign-language experts are praising the Department of Education for taking a larger role in promoting the teaching of other languages as part of a proposed Bush administration initiative to bolster ...

President Bush today announced a new hundred-million-dollar initiative to bolster U.S. national security by expanding foreign language education in this country, especially of key languages including ...