Timeline
1999
Katherine Harris is named co-chair of the Bush presidential campaign in Florida. As Secretary of State, Harris will be responsible for certifying the results of the 2000 Presidential election in Florida.
April 1999
The U.S. government conducts secret war games concluding that an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue.
November 1999
Iraqi defector "Curveball" enters Munich seeking political asylum. A convicted sex offender and low-level engineer later shown to be a fabricator, he will become one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction and the sole source for much of the Bush administration's case against Saddam. Colin Powell will cite his testimony - that Iraq had a number of mobile factories brewing biological poisons - at the UN.
November 5, 1999:
A reporter asks Bush to name the leaders of four global hot spots, Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan. Bush is only able to give a partial response to the query on the leader of Taiwan, referring to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui simply as "Lee." He cannot name the others.