Bush administration spent 1.6 billion on public relations: report
President George W. Bush’s administration spent 1.62 billion dollars on advertising and public relations contracts over two and a half years, an independent agency said. The Department of Defense spent more than any other government agency on media-related contracts, paying 1.1 billion dollars for recruitment campaigns and other public relations efforts, according to a report by the Government Accountablity Office (GAO), an investigative, non-partisan arm of Congress. Full Story