MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: We're going to go to President Bush, who has arrived in Bethesda, Maryland at the National Institutes of Health. We expect him to address the shuttle tragedy.</s>GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you all. Thanks for that warm welcome. It's a delight to be here at the National Institutes of Health, a center of excellence, a center of the brilliance of the American people. It is a place where so many good people do work every day to help save lives, and we're thankful for that. America's really proud of what you do here. NIH is a great credit to America.</s>O'BRIEN: President Bush, Bethesda, Maryland, the National Institutes of Health, striking on some familiar themes and some new themes. The first of which addressing the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and vowing that America's journey in space will continue. Thunderous applause to that. He did talk about his continued desire, and restated his desire to see that Saddam Hussein is disarmed, and then talked at length about increased and added efforts in additional budgetary funding to protect the United States against the possibility of bioterror. Obviously, the National Institutes of Health crucial and integral to that effort. The president working his way through the crowd. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Bush Speaks at National Institutes of Health