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Sunday Morning News

Bush Prepares for Official Trip to Washington

Aired January 14, 2001 - 9:07 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: President-elect George W. Bush phoned Mrs. Reagan from his Texas ranch where he is doing some pre- inauguration interviews and continuing his preparations to move into the White House.

CNN national correspondent Tony Clark joins us from Austin with the latest.

Tony, I can see it now, live, rolling coverage of the moving van down the freeway. What do you think?

TONY CLARK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, they left yesterday. They've pretty much dropped off everything that he needs for the ranch and what's left of the moving vans headed to Washington, D.C.

President-elect Bush just loves his ranch, that 1,600-acre ranch at Crawford, Texas. He loves to show it off; any visitors that he brings to the ranch, the first thing he does is take them on a tour of the ranch because he likes to go there and likes to relax there.

Last night, he had a party for the construction workers who just completed his new ranch house there.

Mr. Bush will be only the second person to follow in his father's footsteps to become president of the United States, but when he does that he will be paid more than -- exactly twice what his father made. He will get a salary of $400,000 a year. That's the first pay increase for the president of the United States since about 1969.

But when he was picking out his furniture for the Oval Office, he did not pick the desk his father used. instead, he is using the desk that President Kennedy and President Clinton used when they were in the Oval Office.

Before Mr. Bush takes over as president of the United States, there is a big battle ahead. That is over his attorney general nominee, John Ashcroft. One of the questions: what Senator means in terms of religion to the attorney general's office. They looked to the speech he gave in 1999, Democrats do. He gave a speech at Bob Jones University, a university known for anti-Catholic views.

During that speech, he said, among other things, that we have no king but Jesus. Democrats want to know what he means by that and how his religion may play a role. Critics have claimed that his religious views may have an impact on how he fulfills the office of attorney general.

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RALPH NEAS, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN WAY: No American should be made to feel like second-class citizens because of their religious beliefs -- not by anyone, but most particularly not by a high government official.

The attorney general of the United States must be someone sensitive to the fact that America's the most religiously diverse country in the world. John Ashcroft clearly is not that person.

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CLARK: Confirmation hearings for Ashcroft begin on Tuesday.

As for the president-elect, he's polishing up his remarks for a Martin Luther King Day commemoration. That will be in Houston. He'll be there with his secretary of education nominee, Rod Paige.

On Wednesday, he travels back to his childhood hometown, Midland, Texas, for a farewell send off. And then he heads to Washington next Saturday, the big day, Inauguration Day for George W. Bush -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right, Tony Clark live in Austin. Thank you, sir.

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