Timeline of the George H. W. Bush presidency (1990)

The following is a timeline of the presidency of George H. W. Bush, from January 1, 1990, to December 31, 1990.

January January 1 – A message of President Bush to the Soviet Union is broadcast to the country. The remarks were recorded on December 19 of the previous year. January 2 – President Bush sends a letter to Benjamin Hooks, condemning recent racially motivated bombings. He insists that he will make sure the federal government works to get the perpetrators in jail. The Bush administration announces the first full year budget will be late by a week, Richard Darman, the budget chief, attributing in part to Congress the delay. Congressional sources say the president's budget will have a proposed slashing by one fourth of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. January 3 – President Bush announces that General Manuel Noriega has turned himself in to American authorities in Panama during an evening address in the Briefing Room. January 5 – President Bush holds his thirty-second news conference in the Briefing Room during the afternoon. President Bush answers questions from reporters on women in combat, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, military action in Panama, the attack on religious Nicaragua workers, covert diplomacy, American military action in the future, and relations between the United States and China. President Bush announces the nomination of Anthony Hurlbutt Flack for membership on the National Council on Disability. January 7 – President Bush introduces the Presidential Lecture Series in the State Dining Room during the afternoon. January 8 – President Bush addresses the American Farm Bureau Federation in Hall D of the Orange County Convention/Civic Center in Orlando, Florida, during the morning. January 9 – President Bush announces the nomination of D'Wayne Gray for the newly created position of Chief Benefits Director for the Department of Veterans Affairs. January 11 – According to Press Secretary Fitwater, President Bush has a meeting with members of the Emergency Committee for Aid to Poland for a briefing on the group's activities. January 11 – President Bush answers a question from a reporter at the Oval Office on the lifting of martial law in China prior to a meeting with the Prime Minister of Portugal. January 11 – President Bush announces the appointment of Richard G. Trefry for military assistant to the president and director of the White House Military Office. January 12 – President Bush answers questions during a session with the Youth Collaborative Mentor Group. January 12 – President Bush delivers an address at Robert A. Taft High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the school auditorium. January 12 – President Bush delivers an address to the Chamber of Commerce in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. January 12 – President Bush announces the nomination of Frederick M. Bernthal for deputy director of the National Science Foundation. January 13 – Press Secretary Fitzwater releases a statement on the arrival of the former Vietnamese reeducation camp detainees and family members into the United States during the upcoming weekend. January 16 – Press Secretary Fitzwater states the United States will join the other 34 countries of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in having their respective military leaders "meet together in Vienna to discuss national military policies, forces, and budgets." January 17 – President Bush delivers remarks and answers questions from reporters on American military action in Panama and the Latin America trip of Vice President Dan Quayle in the Colonnade of the White House. January 17 – President Bush announces the nomination of Susan Jane Koch for assistant director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for the Bureau of Strategic Programs. January 18 – President Bush attends the Bush Administration Executive Forum at DAR Constitution Hall at the 9th annual Executive Forum for political appointees of the administration. January 18 – President Bush answers questions from reporters on foreign aid reallocation and the social security tax cut in the Oval Office. January 18 – President Bush attends the reunion for his presidential campaign in the International Ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel. January 19 – President Bush attends the Annual Convention of the National Association of Home Builders in the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia. January 19 – President Bush visits the Everglades National Park. Press Secretary Fitzwater says the visit was meant for President Bush to "emphasize his commitment to achieving the goal of no net loss of wetlands." January 19 – President Bush announces the nomination of William D. Phillips for associate director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. January 19 – President Bush announces the nomination of Eugene Wong for associate director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. January 19 – President Bush announces the nomination of Edward W. Kelley Jr. for membership on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. January 19 – President Bush announces the nomination of Jessica L. Parks for membership on the Merit Systems Protection Board. January 19 – President Bush attends a fundraising dinner for Governor of Florida Bob Martinez in the main ballroom of the Omni International Hotel. January 22 – President Bush addresses the March for Life rally via satellite from the Oval Office. January 22 – President Bush announces the appointment of Arnold Schwarzenegger as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. January 22 – President Bush orders the implementation of Working Group on Rural Development report from the White House Economic Policy Council. January 22 – President Bush announces the nomination of James L. Kolstad for chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. January 22 – President Bush announces the nomination of L. Joyce Hampers for Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development. January 22 – President Bush attends the American Spectator Annual Dinner in the ballroom of the Willard Hotel. January 24 – President Bush announces the nomination of Charles M. Herzfeld for director of Defense Research and Engineering at the Department of Defense. January 25 – President Bush announces the nomination of C. Anson Franklin for Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development for External Affairs. January 25 – In a statement, President Bush says that he has "approved a far-reaching economic recovery plan" for aid to Panama. January 25 – President Bush announces the nomination of John R. Dunne for Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. January 26 – President Bush addresses the United States Conference of Mayors in the Presidential Ballroom of the Capitol Hilton Hotel. January 26 – President Bush delivers remarks to children with special needs and their parents during an appearance in the East Room. January 26 – President Bush announces the nomination of Richard J. Hankinson for the new position of Inspector General of the Department of Justice. January 28 – Vice President Quayle visits the Panama Canal and joins 1,000 servicemen for the Super Bowl there. January 29 – President Bush sends his budget for the upcoming fiscal year to Congress. The budget is US$1.23 trillion and proposes government spending increases. January 29 – Vice President Quayle meets with Prime Minister of Jamaica Michael Manley. Manley tells Quayle that the US violated international law with the invasion of Panama. January 31 – President Bush delivers his annual State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress.

February February 1 – President Bush announces the transmitting of the Savings and Economic Growth Act of 1990 to Congress during a morning appearance in the Roosevelt Room. President Bush says the legislation is "an important initiative" that he had outlined during the most recent State of the Union address and has the three central components of a "family savings account, capital gains tax rate reduction, and then the homeownership initiative." February 1 – President Bush attends the Annual National Prayer Breakfast in the International Ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel. February 1 – President Bush announces the appointment of Joy A. Silverman for membership on the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. February 1 – President Bush announces the nomination of Charles J. Chamberlain for a reappointment of membership on the Railroad Retirement Board. February 1 – President Bush issues an order on the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation Divestiture of MAMCO Manufacturing, Incorporated. February 1 – President Bush transmits his decisions toward the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation Divestiture of MAMCO Manufacturing, Incorporated to Congress in a message. February 2 – President Bush addresses student and faculty members of the University of Tennessee in the Alumni Memorial Gymnasium. February 2 – President Bush announces the appointment of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The panel is intended to inform the president on matters concerning science and technology. February 2 – President Bush announces the intention to appoint Katherine E. Boyd for membership on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. February 5 – President Bush transmits the Federal Republic of Germany-United States Convention on Taxation and Fiscal Evasion to the Senate in a message. February 5 – President Bush transmits the Finland-United States Convention on Taxation and Fiscal Evasion in a message to the Senate. February 5 – President Bush addresses the Intergovernmental Panel at Georgetown University's Leavey Center. His remarks concern climate change and outline the environmental policy of the administration. February 5 – President Bush announces the nomination of Richard E. Bissell for Assistant Administrator for Science and Technology of the Agency for International Development, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency. February 5 – President Bush sends Congress the 1989 Science and Engineering Indicators Report in a message, the ninth of its kind. February 6 – President Bush transmits the 1990 Economic Report in a message to Congress. February 8 – President Bush attends Fundraising Breakfast for Governor Kay Orr in Omaha, Nebraska. February 9 – President Bush announces the nomination of Shirin Raziuddin Tahir-Kheli for Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special Political Affairs at the United Nations. February 9 – President Bush attends the presentation ceremony for the Flo Hyman Award in the Roosevelt Room during the morning. February 9 – President Bush announces the nomination of John J. Adair for Inspector General of the Resolution Trust Corporation. February 10 – In a statement, President Bush praises the decision by President de Klerk to release Nelson Mandela "as another significant step on the road to the nonracial, democratic South Africa which we all desire." February 12 – President Bush attends the morning welcoming ceremony for the President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou-Nguesso on the South Portico. February 13 – President Bush signs the American instrument for the ratification for the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. In a statement, President Bush calls the signing "one important step closer to placing in the hands of all signatory nations to this Convention a new and formidable weapon in our continued struggle against international drug traffickers."