This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Evans expressed sympathy but did nothing to intervene. a large independent energy company now based in Denver. In 1975 Evans moved to Midland Texas from Houston and began working on an oil rig for Tom Brown Inc.

He was appointed by his longtime friend George W. Donald Louis Evans (born July 27 1946) was the 34th U.