Denver center requested Bush records before TV interview

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Officials at a military records center here gathered documents on President Bush's service record in anticipation of a weekend television interview, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The White House released some documents at a news conference, saying the new paperwork cleared up lingering questions about whether the president fulfilled his Vietnam-era military obligations while serving in the Texas Air National Guard.

Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said the White House received the records Monday from the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver. The paperwork included military pay records not previously released by the White House.

McClellan said the center acted on its own to provide the records, but didn't explain further.

Officials at the center assembled the paperwork last week because they knew Bush was to appear on NBC's Meet the Press, said Lt. Col. Gus Schalkham, chief of public affairs at the Air Reserve Personnel Center.

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