The Religion & Culture Web Forum
October 2004
Commentary Footnotes
Footnotes for
"The Theology of George
W. Bush"
by Bruce Lincoln
(University of Chicago Divinity School)
1 George W. Bush, A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1999). All quotations are from the paperback edition (New York: Perennial, 2001).
3 Doug Wead goes unmentioned in A Charge to Keep, but is discussed in many other publications. See, for example, David Aikman, A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush (Nashville: W. Publishing Group, 2004), 80-84 or Stephen Mansfield, The Faith of George W. Bush (New York: Jeremy Tarcher, 2003), 83-84. Wead’s motto, “Signal early and signal often” is quoted in Guy Lawson, “George W.’s Personal Jesus,” Gentleman’s Quarterly (September 2003), 394.
9 See the materials selected for the volume, Renewing America’s Purpose: Policy Addresses of George W. Bush, July 1999-July 2000 (n.p.: Republican National Committee and Bush for President, Inc., 2000), esp. Part II: “A New Agenda for Compassion,” 109-210.
10Remarks by the President after Two Planes Crash into the World Trade Center, Emma Booker Elementary School, Sarasota Florida, September 11, 2001. The full text is included in We Will Prevail: President George Bush on War, Terrorism, and Freedom, Foreword by Peggy Noonan (New York: Continuum. A National Review Book, 2003), 1.
11 Remarks by the President upon Arrival at Barksdale Air Force Base, September 11, 2001, in We Will Prevail, 1-2.
12 Presidential Address to the Nation, September 11, 2001, in We Will Prevail, 3.
14 Presidential Address to a Joint Session of Congress, September 23, 2001, in We Will Prevail, 15.
15 Responding to questions by the press on September 16, 2001, Mr. Bush said “This is a new kind of – a new kind of evil. And we understand. The American people are beginning to understand, this crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.” He has never made such a statement since. Presumably, his staff made it very clear why the term was ill-chosen. A transcript is available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010916-2.html.
16 Presidential Address to the Nation, October 7, 2001, in We Will Prevail, 33.
17 Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, November 10, 2001, in We Will Prevail, 71-72.
18 State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003, in We Will Prevail, 220-21.
19 Remarks at the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy, available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031106-2.html.
20 Thus: “Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of liberty to transform lives and nations.… I believe that America is called to lead the cause of freedom in a new century.… I believe all these things because freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is the Almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world.” Acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, September 2, 2004. Quoted from the New York Times, September 3, 2004, P4. Also available at http://www.georgebush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=3422.
21 Ibid. Note that the version at Mr. Bush’s website omits the benediction.
22 As established by Devon Largio, “Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq: The Words of the Bush Administration, Congress and the Media from September 12, 2001, to October 11, 2002,” Senior Honors Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on which see William Raspberry, “Tracking Why We Went to War,” Washington Post (May 31, 2004), A23, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3523-2004May30.html.
23 Remarks by the President at Victory 2004 Dinner, August 12, 2004, Santa Monica, CA. Available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040812-15.html.
24 It is worth noting that Michael Gerson, the President’s chief speechwriter, holds a degree in Theology from Wheaton College, “the Evangelical Harvard.”
25 Remarks to Employees at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, September 25, 2001, in We Will Prevail, 22.
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