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Bush and Allawi Tout Progress in Iraq

By Don Gonyea

Published September 22, 2004 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

President Bush appears at the White House with interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to emphasize Iraq's progress toward security and democracy.

The two leaders touted improvements and vowed that despite recent insurgent violence, elections in Iraq would take place on schedule in early 2005. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

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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.