BUSH

President Bush talks about his second-term agenda during a year-end press conference at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex, in Washington, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. The hour-long question and answer session focused on the problems with the war in Iraq, criticism of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, federal spending and prospects for peace in the Middle East. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)