George Bush

The son watched his father, vowing not to repeat his mistakes. The weekend before George W. Bush defeated Texas Gov. Ann Richards in 1994, he stood in the backyard of his Dallas home hitting tennis balls into the swimming pool for his dog to fetch and ruminating about the future with his media strategist, Don Sipple.

President George H.W. Bush has been released from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester after hip replacement surgery. The 82-year-old was discharged Saturday after an operation on his right hip Wednesday, the hospital said on its website. Mayo surgeons replaced his left hip in 2000. Bush was admitted Tuesday after delivering a eulogy at the Washington funeral of President Ford.

Former President George H.W. Bush was in good spirits as he gave a speech in Los Angeles on Monday night, a day after being overcome by sweltering desert heat and staying overnight at a hospital. Bush walked with a cane onstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and joked with the audience before beginning his lecture on values. He said that he felt tired while playing golf with some friends in Palm Springs on Sunday afternoon and went to sit in a chair.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon chastised President Bush on Tuesday for doing too little to stem the causes of illegal immigration and for failing to curb the U.S. appetite for illegal drugs. Opening a two-day meeting aimed at easing strained relations, Calderon reminded Bush that he had once said that "there is no relationship the world over that is more relevant to the United States than the one with Mexico."

Former President George Herbert Walker Bush spent a significant part of his speech in Los Angeles on Monday night talking of his love of family and his pride in the son who currently occupies the White House. Yet as the 82-year-old former chief executive recounted his years as president, the tale of how he governed stood in marked contrast to what critics, a few of whom were in the audience, say are the official actions of his beleaguered son.

Vice President Dick Cheney scolded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday for "bad behavior" in traveling to Syria, a country that he said promoted terrorism. In a conversation with fellow conservative Rush Limbaugh on Limbaugh's radio show, Cheney belittled Pelosi's public statement after she met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Wednesday.

Democratic presidential contender John Edwards argued Thursday that President Bush had made the nation less safe and that the Republican candidates were trying to become "a bigger, badder George Bush." The remarks by the former senator from North Carolina came one day after he challenged the idea of a global war on terrorism, calling it an ideological doctrine advanced by the Bush administration that had strained the U.S. military and emboldened terrorists.

NEW YORK -- In announcing that he was stepping down as President Bush's top political advisor, Karl Rove said Monday that he wanted to write a book about his White House years. Publishers, with some reservations, would like to see what he has in mind.

President Bush says Bill Clinton has become so close to his father that the Democratic former president is like a family member. Former President George H.W. Bush has worked with Clinton to raise money for victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast. Asked about his father and Clinton, Bush quipped, "Yes, he and my new brother." He added: "That's a good relationship. It's a fun relationship to watch."

Virginia has George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation. New York has the Hyde Park estate of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Yorba Linda embraces the modest farmhouse that was Richard Nixon's childhood home. And Hodgenville, Ky., has Sinking Spring Farm, where Abraham Lincoln was born.