In September 2006 , Bush campaigned for New Jersey Senate candidate Thomas Kean Jr. , praising him as well as stating his respect for Kean for calling on the resignation of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld . Kean went on to lose the election . The following month , he was honored by the National Italian American Foundation ( NIAF ) with the NIAF One America Award for fundraising , with Bill Clinton , for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and Hurricane Katrina
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
George H. W. Bush