President Bush was inaugurated on 20 January 2001 at 12 noon EST, so his 2006th day in office began at 12 noon EST 19 July 2006 and ended at 12 noon EST 20 July 2006.

 

A part of my post yesterday ( http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2006/bobware825.htm ) has a list of the number of inclusive days he has served since 4 June 2006.

 

President Bush was elected on 7 November 2000. The 2006th day after that was 6 May 2006.

Congress certified the electoral vote on 6 January 2001. The 2006th day from that date was 5 July 2006. The 2006th inclusive day since 6 January 2006 was Independence Day 4 July 2006.

Here are some of the details of the election taken from this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2000

About 10 p.m. EST on December 12, the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in favor of Bush by a 5–4 vote, effectively ending the legal review of the vote count with Bush in the lead. Seven of the nine justices cited differing vote-counting standards from county to county and the lack of a single judicial officer to oversee the recount, both of which, they ruled, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.

The crucial 5 to 4 decision held that insufficient time remained to implement a unified standard and therefore all recounts must stop.

At 9pm on December 13, in a nationally televised address, Gore conceded that he had lost his bid for the presidency. He asked his supporters to support Bush, saying, "This is America, and we put country before party." During his speech, Gore's family, running mate Joe Lieberman, and Lieberman's wife Hadassah stood nearby.

Texas Governor George W. Bush became President-elect and began forming his transition committee. Bush said he was reaching across party lines to bridge a divided America, stating that "the President of the United States is the President of every single American, of every race and every background."[2]

On January 6, 2001, a joint session of Congress met to certify the electoral vote. Twenty members of the House of Representatives, most of them Democratic members of the Congressional Black Caucus, rose one by one to file objections to the electoral votes of Florida. However, according to an 1877 law, any such objection had to be sponsored by both a representative and a senator, and no senator would co-sponsor these objections. Therefore, Gore, who was presiding in his capacity as President of the Senate, ruled each of these objections out of order.

Bush took the oath of office on January 20, 2001.