The president's New Year's resolution is to continue to work tirelessly for peace abroad and prosperity at home.

In the summer of 2002...the President began lobbying for an open-ended resolution empowering him to wage war on Iraq.... Bush had made clear his intentions to wage war on Iraq in several of our private meetings.

As for peace we subscribe to the UN resolution... although it contains some contractions. We shall together achieve peace if the major and essential challenge of identification of our population and our combatants are taken up.

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

It's akin to the Rosie-the-riveter type thing, because we are asking every American and every American institution to do quite a bit.

The president has made clear -- as recently as this Tuesday -- that he was not satisfied with the federal response.