Timeline of the George W. Bush presidency (2002)
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The following is a timeline of the presidency of George W. Bush, from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2002.
January
January 8 – President Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act into law.
January 11 – President Bush signs the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act into law, Guantanamo Bay detention camp is established.
January 13 – President Bush chokes on a pretzel and faints.
January 22 – President Bush promotes his proposed Economic Security Package during a speech in Charleston, West Virginia.
January 29 – President Bush delivers his annual State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress. During the address, the president pointedly accuses three countries—Iran, Iraq, and North Korea—of sponsoring terrorism and attempting to amass weapons of mass destruction, activities that threaten the peace of the world, and declares that nations like these three constitute an axis of evil.
January 31 – President Bush travels to Daytona Beach, Florida, where he promotes the federal government's Senior Corps program.
February
February 4 – President Bush presents Congress with a wartime budget of $2.1 trillion, which sees a return to deficit spending by the federal government.
February 7 – President Bush signs the "Humane Treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda Detainees" memorandum, reversing American's commitments to parts of the Geneva Convention.
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