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The Associated Press Tuesday, January 20, 2004; 8:26 PM
Guests of President Bush and Laura Bush in her VIP box during the State of the Union speech:
-White House legislative liaison David Hobbs.
-Marine Corps Sgt. Dawn Michelle Campbell of Madison, Wis., who returned from service in Iraq last June.
-Ex-offender Julio Medina, who formed the Exodus Transitional Community to help people reintegrate into society from prison.
-Sister Carol Keehan, president and chief executive of Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C.
-Rend Al-Rahim, executive director of the Iraq Foundation and the Iraqi Governing Council's representative in Washington.
-Eileen Halter, chief executive of Schnipke Engraving Co. in Ottoville, Ohio, invited to illustrate the benefits of Bush's tax cuts.
-The Rev. Helen S. Fleming, who founded the Lena Maloney Community Development Corp. in Philadelphia in 1998 to support children of prisoners and to provide a computer lab for the elderly and unemployed and financial and legal counseling.
-Army Chief Warrant Officer Stephen Douglas Combs Jr., of Fall River, Mass., who helped in the raids that captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
-Jim Diesing of Big Brothers Big Sisters in Minneapolis, Minn., along with his little brother in the program, 13-year-old David Moreno.
-District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams.
-Tamika Catchings of Indianapolis, Ind., a member of USA Basketball 2004 Women's senior national team and of the WNBA Indiana Fever.
-Elsie Blanton of Apopka, Fla., invited to showcase the benefits of the recently passed Medicare prescription drug benefit.
-Air Force Staff Sgt. Clinton Ward Smith Jr., of Forestville, Md., who returned last October from service in Baghdad.
-Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Stephen Matthew Kuczirka of Cincinnati, who returned Friday from service in the Arabian Gulf.
-National Guard Spc. Matthew Moss of Oxnard, Calif., who returned from Baghdad in November because of combat injuries.
-New Teacher Project chief executive Michelle Rhee.
-Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel Christopher Roundtree of New York, who returned last August from service in Bahrain.
-Alma Powell, wife of Secretary of State Colin Powell.
-Joyce Rumsfeld, wife of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
-New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
-The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, senior pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston, founder of the Pyramid Community Development Corp. and a longtime Bush family friend.
-Bush family friend Suzette Caldwell of Houston.
-Staff Sgt. Joey Marshal Wommack of Garland, Texas, who returned from Iraq on Jan. 4 and is scheduled to go back this month.
-Longtime Bush adviser Karen Hughes.
-Adnan Pachachi, current president of the Iraqi Governing Council.
-Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
-Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi.
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