Mrs. Laura Bush toured Midway Atoll and viewed many albatross birds on the Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument, Thursday March 1, 2007. The short-tailed albatross facing the camera is a long-time resident of the island and standing with two decoy birds. "He's been here about five years," said Mrs. Bush of the lonely bird. "He's 20 years old. They know because he was banded in Japan on the island where he was. Of course, they are hoping to attract some young short-tailed albatross. That's why the decoys are here also, so there will be a mating pair here." President Bush designated the Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument on June 15, 2006, and is the single largest conservation area in U.S. history and the largest protected marine area in the world. White House photo by Shealah Craighead

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Mrs. Laura Bush toured Midway Atoll and viewed many albatross birds on the Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument, Thursday March 1, 2007. The short-tailed albatross facing the camera is a long-time resident of the island and standing with two decoy birds. "He's been here about five years," said Mrs. Bush of the lonely bird. "He's 20 years old. They know because he was banded in Japan on the island where he was. Of course, they are hoping to attract some young short-tailed albatross. That's why the decoys are here also, so there will be a mating pair here." President Bush designated the Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument on June 15, 2006, and is the single largest conservation area in U.S. history and the largest protected marine area in the world. White House photo by Shealah Craighead

President George W. Bush speaks at the Samuel J. Green charter school in New Orleans, Thursday, March 1, 2007, where President Bush met with students, parents and faculty to congratulate the community on its post-Katrina recovery efforts. President Bush assured them the federal government will work with their local and state leadership to continue in the areas recovery. White House photo by Eric Draper

President George W. Bush is joined by Ernie Woodward of Long Beach, Miss., left, as he talks with Wendell Orr, center, a contractor, during the President’s tour Thursday, March 1, 2007, into a neighborhood where some homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina have been rebuilt with Gulf Coast grant money. White House photo by Eric Draper

Vice President Dick Cheney delivers the keynote address to the 34th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Thursday, March 1, 2007. White House photo by David Bohrer

Laura Bush visits Midway Atoll, part of the Hawaiian archipelago, Thursday, March 1. 2007. The Northwest Hawaiian Islands consist of 10 islands and atolls stretched over 1,400 miles, the distance from Chicago to Miami. Around the islands and atolls are more than 4,500 square miles of coral reef which are home to 7,000 marine species, a quarter of which are found nowhere else in the world. President Bush designated the islands as a national monument June 15, 2006. It is the single largest conservation area created in U.S. history and the largest protected marine area in the world. White House photo by Shealah Craighead

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