Bush to visit Sept. 11 memorial this week

Sunday, March 7, 2004

President Bush, facing criticism from victims' relatives for using images of the destroyed World Trade Center in campaign ads, will visit a Sept. 11 memorial in New York this week. Bush plans to tour the memorial Thursday in Long Island's Nassau County. A news conference Friday by Peaceful Tomorrows, a group of victims' relatives, was arranged by MoveOn.org, a liberal group that has been running ads critical of Bush. The relatives questioned the use of the images showing firefighters at ground zero and the removal of victims' remains. The Bush administration also arranged appearances on broadcast television Thursday for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others to defend the ads.

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