George W Bush

Authorities detained a person near the home of former President George W. Bush on Wednesday night after an incident in his Dallas-area neighborhood, a U.S. Secret Service spokesman said. The person who was detained was coming to visit a neighbor of the former president, according to Ed Donovan of the Secret Service. The person was authorized to come onto the street, Donovan said. The incident is being investigated by the Secret Service and there was no perceived threat to the former president, according to Sgt. Warren Mitchell with the Dallas Police Department.

Rosalea Della, a retired Baltimore Gas and Electric worker who was recognized by President George H.W. Bush for her many hours of volunteer service, died of a pulmonary embolism Tuesday at St. Agnes Hospital. She was 93 and had lived in Pasadena. She was born Rosalea Muriel Streckfus in Baltimore and lived her early years in Canton. Several years ago she wrote a memoir of her life in which she recalled her family's basement kitchen: "The black iron range was always kept burning hot in the winter.

The Bush tax cuts were a huge success, and failing to extend them for all Americans — not just families earning less than $250,000, as President Barack Obama proposes — would be a terrible mistake. Contrary to White House propaganda, George W. Bush achieved a lot of growth prior to the financial crisis, and lower taxes for all helped. The Bush prosperity was the byproduct of several multi-decade policy trends that freed markets and empowered individuals to innovate and create wealth.

No column in this space has generated more e-mail reaction in recent months than my questioning why voters would be contemplating a return of Republican control of Congress in November after the eight years of George W. Bush. With very few exceptions, the e-mails have castigated me, often in derogatory personal terms, for blaming Mr. Bush for the woes taunting President Barack Obama. In the process, I asked readers whether they thought the country with its multiple challenges, many of them inherited from Mr. Bush, would be better off if he were still president.

Here we have the Cinderella mayor of Baltimore, trying to clean up the mess created by Sheila Gift Card by demanding a full accounting of city agencies and a strengthening of the ethics commission. And there, just 40 miles to our south, we have the Supreme Court of the United States saying: Never mind all that. Mayor-to-be Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has been doing the right thing. I don't know whose idea it was to go heavy with the transparency thing - a pledge to keep City Hall open and honest, and to give the ethics commission some independence - but that was just what the doctor ordered following Mayor Dixon's plea deal.

Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, deputy commander of the U.S. Southern Command; Rajiv Shah, U.S. Agency for International Development administrator. 9 a.m.: WMDT (Channel 47) 10 a.m. WJLA (Channel 7) 10:30 a.m.: WMAR (Channel 2) Clinton, Bush, Keen, Shah. 10:30 a.m.: WUSA (Channel 9) and WJZ (Channel 13) Clinton, Bush, Keen, Shah. 10 a.m.: WGAL (Channel 8), WBAL (Channel 11)

The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President Edited by Jeffrey A. Engel Princeton University Press / 544 pages / $29.95 "Be kind," Dorothy Bush advised her son in 1970, when he became ambassador to the United Nations. "Don't be a big shot. Listen, don't talk. Reach out to people ... and recognize in diplomatic terms that the sovereignty of Burundi is as important to them as our sovereignty is to us." Four years later, when George H. W. Bush arrived in Beijing as head of the United States Liaison Office, a penchant for personal diplomacy had become his signature style.

Mario J. Boiardi, a retired Eastern Shore businessman and son of the Italian-born chef who created the "Chef Boyardee" line of canned foods, died of cancer Saturday at his Queenstown home. He was 81. Mr. Boiardi - whose last name is pronounced "Boyardee" - was born in Cleveland and raised in Milton, Pa. His father, Hector J. Boiardi, an Italian immigrant who had been head chef of the Plaza and Ritz-Carlton hotels in New York City, and his mother, Helen, moved to Cleveland in 1917, where they opened a restaurant.