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Bush to Speak to Republican Convention
September 01, 2008 10:56 PM
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos reports:After skipping the opening day of the Republican National Convention to personally check the emergency response to Hurricane Gustav, President George W. Bush will keep his appointment with the party faithful.
Bush will speak to the RNC Tuesday in St. Paul, one day after the convention opened to an abbreviated schedule due to the storm.
Hurricane Gustav hit the Gulf Coast almost three years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area, and left deep political wounds on Bush and his administration.
Eager to demonstrate the lessons learned from the Katrina criticism, Bush visited evacuee centers in Texas today. And Republican candidate John McCain spent the day at a disaster relief agency in Ohio and packed boxes of cleaning supplies to be sent to the relief effort.
After a day off to focus on the storm, the party will resume in St Paul with a complete convention program Tuesday.
Speakers expected in the primetime schedule, 10-11 pm ET, include: Sen. Joe Lieberman, Independent of Connecticut and Al Gore's 2000 campaign runningmate on the Democratic ticket, and former Sen. Fred Thompson of R-Tenn.
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