Bush Uncertain About Space Center Visit
Associated Press SPACE CENTER, Houston - President Bush is no longer so sure
he's been here before. A day after telling reporters that Bush had visited
Johnson Space Center while serving as governor of Texas in the 1990s, White
House spokesman Ari Fleischer backpedaled from that assertion. On Monday,
Fleischer dismissed suggestions that Bush had not been interested in the NASA
program before the Columbia crash and rejected a report that Bush had never
been to the Space Center. He told reporters the president visited the facility
near Houston in 1995 or 1996. Fleischer said Tuesday that after further review,
Bush's staff could find no record of the visit. "Johnson Space Center says that
he did not go there, and I'm not able to find the exact date." Full story