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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arbusto Energy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dorothy Bush Koch (born August 18, 1959), sometimes called Doro, is the younger sister and youngest sibling of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
The Bush family's business dealings with the bin Laden family were criticized by many; a small group allege that the Bush/bin Laden business relationship led to Osama bin Laden being groomed as a CIA asset.
A friend of the Bush family, Philip Uzielli, invested $1 million in 1982 in exchange for a 10% stake in the company, at a time when the whole company was valued at less than $400,000.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arbusto-Energy   (1336 words)

  
 Dorothy - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The most famous Dorothy in literature is probably Dorothy Gale, the little girl who was blown to the Land of Oz by a cyclone in L.
Dorothy is the given name of the Doctor Who character Ace.
Sister Dorothy (1931-2005) was a catholic nun of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Dorothy   (161 words)

  
 Dorothy Bush Koch Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dorothy Bush Koch, often called "Doro," (born August 18, 1959), is the daughter of the 41st President of the United States George H. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the youngest sibling of George W. Bush, the 43rd President.
Koch was a former aide to House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt.
Koch is a lobbyist and president of the Wine Institute of California.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Dorothy_Bush_Koch   (315 words)

  
 Tufts E-News -- George Bush Sr. Biography
George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush (R-Senator, CT, 1952-62).
Bush traveled to Peking, where he served as Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office during the critical period when the United States was renewing ties with the People's Republic of China.
Bush are residents of Houston, Texas, and serve on the Board of Visitors of M.D. Anderson Hospital.
www.tufts.edu /communications/stories/011503BushBio.htm   (780 words)

  
 Dorothy Bush Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothy Bush Koch, often called "Doro," (born August 18, 1959), is the daughter of the 41st President of the United States George H. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush and the youngest sibling of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
Koch was a former aide to House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt.
Koch is a lobbyist and President of the Wine Institute of California.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorothy_Bush_Koch   (353 words)

  
 Dorothy Bush Koch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dorothy Bush Koch (born August 18, 1959), sometimes called "Doro", is the younger sister and youngest sibling of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
Her four siblings are George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Marvin Bush, and Neil Bush.
In 1975, during a visit to Beijing, (it is said) she became the first person publicly baptized in China since its communist government began discouraging foreign religious practices in 1949.
www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/do/dorothy_bush_koch.html   (154 words)

  
 Dorothy Bush Koch - SourceWatch
Dorothy Bush Koch was born August 18, 1959, and is the only surviving sister of President George Walker Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the daughter of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush.
In 1992, married Democrat Robert Koch at Camp David, the president's retreat in Maryland.
Koch, a California wine industry lobbyist, once headed up the congressional staff of Tony Coehlo -- who served briefly as Albert Gore, Jr.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Dorothy_Bush_Koch   (253 words)

  
 TIME Pacific | Learning Curve | December 25, 2000 | NO. 51
His sister Dorothy Bush Koch was so concerned about his state of mind that she would call down to Texas periodically to see if he needed cheering up.
Bush called up beforehand and said he'd make it if he'd lost by then but wouldn't be able to if he'd won, because of all the security and other encumbrances that come with the job.
Aides say Bush was stunned and angered by public and media reaction to his attempt to ignore the tiny and relatively unknown Commission on Presidential Debates and instead to hold talk show-style debates.
www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20001225/poy_learining.html   (1422 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush (Republican Senator Connecticut 1952-1962).
Bush married Barbara Pierce of Rye, New York.
Bush was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1966 from Texas' 7th District.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /biosandphotos/presbushbio.php   (762 words)

  
 Robert Koch - SourceWatch
Koch is now an executive and lobbyist at the Wine Institute, the trade group of the California wine industry.
Koch is a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade (APAC), and a board member of the National Commission Against Drunk Driving, the Council on American Politics of the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management, and the California State Society.
Koch was acting assistant secretary of defense because Armitage was traveling from November 15 to November 23, 1985.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Robert_Koch   (582 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bush's courage, strength face a true test   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bush's closest advisers see a steeliness replacing the mischief in his eyes and count the longer hours he spends in the Oval Office.
Bush's younger sister, Dorothy Bush Koch, spoke with him the next day at the cathedral and encountered what she calls "his icy self." "That was a signal to me that he was in command and ready to handle it," she says.
Now Bush faces another defining moment, leading the nation into what he calls "a new kind of war" — one that could last beyond his term in office, one in which success and victory will be difficult to measure and achieve.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/09/21/bush-test.htm   (1604 words)

  
 The First Twins: News Clipping
Dorothy Bush Koch, the governor's younger sister, came from her home in Bethesda, Md., and Cory Tilley, a trusted former aide, traveled from Tallahassee to be with Noelle in Whitehead's courtroom.
Whitehead told Bush that he was disappointed in her but added he thought she could complete drug treatment successfully and was allowing her to stay in the program.
The Bushes also stayed away in July, when their daughter was sentenced to three days in jail for unauthorized possession of prescription drugs.
www.thefirsttwins.com /refs/orlando20021028.html   (1270 words)

  
 President Bush s Sister, Dorothy Bush Koch, on Disability Matters with Joyce Bender on VoiceAmerica.com
Hear Dorothy Doro Bush Koch and Joyce Bender as they discuss the current political climate and how people with disabilities may be affected by the results this November.
Dorothy Bush Koch, known as Doro, is a Houston, Texas, native who currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
She is the daughter of President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush and is married to Bobby Koch (pronounced Cook), president and CEO of Wine Institute.
www.mpeg3.org /news/ipod/ipod_364.php   (1039 words)

  
 Biography of President George Bush | Scholastic.com
George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush (Republican Senator from Connecticut, 1952–62).
Bush was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1966 from Texas' 7th District.
Bush traveled to Peking, where he served as Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office during the critical period when the United States was renewing ties with the People's Republic of China.
content.scholastic.com /browse/article.jsp?id=4650   (890 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
George Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush.
Bush was credited with lifting CIA morale and preventing further damage to the agency.
Bush recognized the new states and sought agreements with Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, negotiating substantial cuts in nuclear weapons.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /pastexhibits/gb.php   (1007 words)

  
 Out of the Bush family shadow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
But Dorothy Bush Koch is only now stepping into the spotlight with a new book about the first President Bush and about her family.
Koch's book walks through the life and times of her father, George H. Bush, a war hero at age 20 after he was shot down fighting the Japanese in 1944.
Koch worked on the book for two years, conducting 135 interviews with friends, family and even political opponents of her father, including the man he beat for the presidency in 1988, Michael Dukakis.
www.topix.net /content/trb/1804714311357696730806834981220020158307   (1091 words)

  
 Book about Bush is really about family
Dorothy Bush Koch has written a book about her father's life and his journey to the Oval Office as the nation's 41st president.
Last update: November 17, 2006 – 4:38 PM orothy (Doro) Bush Koch is not a household name like her brothers, George W. and Jeb.
After mining President Bush's reams of private papers and notes, Koch found her father's early enthusiasm about the book was beginning to wane.
www.startribune.com /384/v-print/story/818082.html   (762 words)

  
 George H.W. Bush
Bush was director of Central Intelligence and head of the Central Intelligence Agency from January 30, 1976, to January 20, 1977.
A major Bush accomplishment in 1991 was the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), signed in July with Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev at their fourth summit conference, marking the end of the long weapons buildup.
President Bush sought to seize new opportunities through a policy of free trade, pushing to lower trade restrictions and tariff barriers in the GATT talks.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2025.html   (1384 words)

  
 Marvin Bush - SourceWatch
Marvin Pierce Bush, born October 22, 1956, is the brother of President George Walker Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush.
George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records.
Marvin Bush's last year on the board at Stratesec coincided with his first year on the board of HCC Insurance, formerly Houston Casualty Co., one of the insurance carriers for the WTC.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Marvin_Bush   (1314 words)

  
 Bush, daughter appear for book signing in Kennebunkport - Boston.com
For the book, Koch used personal correspondence from her father's years in the White House as well as interviews with more than 100 people, including all living presidents.
The audience was treated to a laugh when Koch read aloud a section from the book about how Bush awarded the "Brent Scowcroft Award for Somnolent Excellence" to various staffers who fell asleep during meetings.
Bush also said his next skydiving venture is already booked for his 85th birthday.
www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/12/03/bush_daughter_appear_for_book_signing_in_kennebunkport?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News   (360 words)

  
 USS George H.W. Bush Christened, Bush Family Commemorates Warship Named For 41st President - CBS News
Dorothy Bush Koch, the elder Bush's daughter, handled the ritual smashing of a bottle of sparkling wine against the flattop's bow.
Bush father and son and several relatives joined hundreds of others at the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard, where the $6 billion, 1,092-foot-long carrier is being built.
Bush parachuted into the sea and was rescued by a Navy submarine.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/10/07/national/main2072366.shtml   (845 words)

  
 Welcome to the George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) Website - Northrop Grumman Newport News
She is the daughter of President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush and is married to Bobby Koch, president and CEO of Wine Institute.
Koch is the founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Maryland Initiative, which raises money to support family literacy programs all over the state of Maryland.
Koch is the author of “My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H.W. Bush.,” which will be published by Time Warner Books on October 6, 2006.
www.nn.northropgrumman.com /bush/sponsor.html   (300 words)

  
 Bradenton Herald | 10/08/2006 | Presidential family christens George H.W. Bush carrier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The bottle strike sent fizz onto the carrier's hull, followed by smiles, hugs and handshakes between Koch Bush, her father, brother, and shipyard president Mike Petters.
George Herbert Walker Bush, the Navy's youngest commissioned pilot during World War II and president from 1989 to 1993, became the first living president to attend the christening of a carrier named after him.
President George W. Bush, who gave the keynote address and introduced his father, raved about the vessel: "She is unrelenting, she unshakeable, she is unyielding, she is unstoppable.
www.bradenton.com /mld/bradenton/news/local/15705758.htm   (399 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Koch
Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch, (1810 - 1876), mayor of Leipzig
Charles G. Koch - Billionaire, heir and CEO of Koch Industries and co-founder of the free-market Cato Institute.
Robert Koch - German physician, discoverer of the tubercle and cholera bacilli, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1905
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Koch   (298 words)

  
 City Pages - Obituaries
Bush enjoyed throughout his presidency repeatedly passed legislation removing issue after issue from the purview of the state and federal courts, including questions of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to assemble, and the right to trial by jury.
Bush, he cautioned that the exigencies of the job would probably require him to remain in office "for another year, or maybe two," and the question was not raised again.
Bush was preceded in death by his sister Robin Bush, his brothers John "Jeb" Bush, the former governor of Florida, Neil Bush, and Marvin Bush, and his sister Dorothy Bush Koch.
www.citypages.com /databank/25/1248/article12626.asp   (2278 words)

  
 Florida in the Bush Years
Governor Jeb Bush was elected Florida's 43rd Governor in 1998, and was re-elected in 2002.
Bush was born John Ellis Bush (J.E.B.) in 1953 in Midland, Texas to future U.S. President and First Lady George and Barbara Bush.
Bush was successful his second attempt in 1998, the same year his older brother, George W. Bush, won re-election in Texas.
www.floridamemory.com /PhotographicCollection/photo_exhibits/bushyears.cfm   (416 words)

  
 Dorothy Bush Koch Information
Dorothy Bush Koch, often called "Doro," (born August 18, 1959), is the daughter of the 41st President of the United States George H. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush and the youngest sibling of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States.
Since the time of her childhood, Dorothy has spent most summers and holidays at the Bush Compound, a sprawling estate in Kennebunkport, Maine.
In 1975, during a visit to Beijing, (it is said) Dorothy became the first person publicly baptized in China since its government began discouraging foreign religious practices in 1949.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Dorothy_Bush_Koch   (212 words)

  
 Bush's Super Fundraisers Join the Queue for Favors
Last week Bush's 2004 re-election fund hit a record $200m, doubling the total set in 2000, and it is expected to top $250m.
The Bush administration then reversed a campaign promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that bedevil the coal industry and eased environmental restrictions on opencast mining.
Then, Bush was guest of honor at an exclusive dinner of steak, potatoes and vegetables.
www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0523-04.htm   (1150 words)

  
 Election2000: Uneasy mood in Austin flips as votes do
Bush also said he had been on the phone with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican whom he had considered for his running mate.
Bush had invited journalists into his office at the governor's mansion to watch as he made last-minute phone calls to people in battleground states, asking for their vote.
Bush returned to his office there to make the get-out-the-vote phone calls, including one to a man in Orlando.
www.sptimes.com /News/110800/Election2000/Uneasy_mood_in_Austin.shtml   (955 words)

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