VELSHI: President Bush is one of the most familiar faces in the world. But White House photographers often try to show him in new ways, close up and candid, as well as the usual pomp and circumstance. Here's our national correspondent, Bruce Morton.</s>BRUCE MORTON, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The book, called "George W. Bush: Portrait of a Leader," was produced for the president's second term inaugural committee. David Kennerly, who also worked in the Ford White House, is one of the White House photographers whose work is seen in it.</s>DAVID KENNERLY, WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHER: We like to think of ourselves as the fly on the wall. We're always the other person in the room. So no matter what's going on, there's, like, one of us there.</s>MORTON: There are intimate moments. The president and his parents on the White House lawn shortly after his inauguration. The Bushes straightening the oval office. Barney inspecting the lawn through one of its windows. Clearing brush on his ranch. Practicing is high hard one before throwing out the first pitch of the 2001 season. Laura and a niece at Camp David. But...</s>KENNERLY: I think the best pictures came out of the drama of real things going on, definitely right after the 9/11 attack.</s>MORTON: Bush at the Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota. He'd just been told of the attacks. Bush looking at the damaged Pentagon on September 12th. With a bullhorn at Ground Zero, New York, September 14th. With Arlene (ph) Howard, whose policeman son was killed in the attack. At the National Cathedral service that same day. A contemplative president, February, 2002. On Air Force One descending into Baghdad on that surprise visit, Thanksgiving, 2003. Hands reaching out in Parkersburg, Virginia, during his 2004 campaign. With his wife, Election Night. They know they've won. And, finally, the Bushes at an inaugural ball, 2005, dancing on the presidential seal. A happy start to what's been an uneven second term. Bruce Morton, CNN, Washington.
Presidential Portraits in New Book