For Bush, the speech came on the day that his approval rating dropped to a new low — 41 percent — according to a new CBS poll. The president is planning to give five more prime-time speeches on Iraq in the coming weeks in what the Washington Post describes as a “tightly orchestrated public relations effort.” How the speech played out in Iraq is less clear since Bush began speaking at around 4 in the morning Baghdad time.
Bush Approval Rating Drops To New Low
HeadlineMay 25, 2004