Washington, Nov 13: US President George Bush has said that he regretted certain utterances during his eight years of Presidency. After vacating the White House on January 20, he plans to pen a book jotting down his experiences at the Oval Office.

“I regret saying some things I shouldn''t have said”, Bush said while recalling how his wife Laura Bush had once warned him that "as President of the United States, be careful what you say".

Washington, Nov. 13 : Once he demits the office of the president of the United States, George W. Bush will still have the authority and the power to block subpoenas against him as per the U. S. Constitution.

According to the New York Times, former president Harry S. Truman did so in 1953, nearly a year after he left office, when a Congressional committee subpoenaed him.

Washington, Nov. 12 : White House aides are reportedly fuming over leaked reports that President Bush had offered a political compromise in which he would support a bailout for the auto industry in exchange for Obama''s support of a free-trade deal with Colombia.

According to the president-elect''s aides, Obama told Bush that he favors appointing a czar to oversee any bailout for the nations'' domestic automakers. That appointee would have power to push for reforms in an ailing industry on the brink of bankruptcy.

Washington, Nov 12: US President George Bush has granted visa-free travel to the citizens of seven countries, namely Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, South Korea, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, to his country.

The President said that the US enjoyed “good, tight relations and co-operation” with the countries exempted.

“These close friends of America told me that it was unfair their people had to jump through bureaucratic hoops that other allies can walk around,” the Daily Times quoted Bush as saying while announcing the decision.

Washington - US President George W Bush on Tuesday honoured members of the US military aboard the USS Intrepid, a World War II- era aircraft carrier that is now a museum in New York harbour.

The ceremony to rededicate the museum after a renovation was part of Veterans Day celebrations across the nation to honour veterans on the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I.