Bush Week

By Don Gonyea

Published January 12, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

As his new Republican Congress took office last week, President Bush delivered big surprises. His tax cut proposal larger than some expected. The president also angered Democrats and civil rights activists by re-nominating Charles Pickering to the federal bench. NPR White House correspondent Don Gonyea looks at the week in the White House.

Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.

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