International

Bush Baghdad Visit Boosts Troops' Spirits

By Don Gonyea, Peter Kenyon

Published November 27, 2003 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 21 years ago.

President Bush is back in the United States after a top-secret, whirlwind visit to Baghdad. The surprise visit from the commander-in-chief was a morale boost for weary troops in Iraq. Hear NPR's Peter Kenyon and NPR's Don Gonyea.

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Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.

Peter Kenyon

Peter Kenyon is NPR's international correspondent based in Istanbul, Turkey.