Gifts for Bush: iPod from Bono, poker chips and bike

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) An iPod and book from Bono, a 5,474 dollars bicycle and custom poker chips were among gifts given to President George W Bush last year.

Bush, an avid mountain biker, received two pairs of cycling shoes valued at 515 dollars from Trek Nike Cycling Division in addition to the bicycle from John Burke, president of Trek Bicycle Corp, according to financial disclosure reports released by the White House yesterday.

But the 17,316 dollars total in gifts reported by Bush was eclipsed by the 39,722 dollars in gifts given to Vice President Dick Cheney.

Cheney's gifts included a 6,125 dollars prewar single-action Colt 45 revolver, which was donated to the Cody Firearms Museum in Wyoming, and a 1,000 dollars handmade, engraved Lewis&Clark reproduction rifle.

Cheney's hunting pastime made headlines this year after he accidentally shot a friend while bird hunting in Texas.

Bono, lead singer for U2, gave the president an iPod and the book ''The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language'' by Eugene H.

Peterson valued at 440 dollars.

Bono, who has met with Bush at the White House, has campaigned for erasing the debts of poor countries to help fight poverty.

The former Texas governor received two custom poker chip sets and wood cases valued at 900 dollars from The United States Playing Card Company, and a chainsaw and accessories worth 351 dollars from Robert Nardelli, president and chief executive officer of Home Depot Inc.

Cheney gave Bush 400 dollars binoculars, and Bush gave Cheney a 338 dollars hammock on a steel frame as Christmas presents.

Former President Gerald Ford gave Cheney a 489 dollars leather-bound commemorative edition of the Warren Commission Report signed by him. Ford was a member of the commission that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Bush and Cheney are not allowed to accept personal gifts from foreign citizens or governments.

The forms do not provide precise values of the president and vice president's financial assets but instead give ranges.

Bush's ranch in Crawford was valued at more than 1 million dollars to 5 million dollars. The president has a qualified diversified trust valued in that same range.

He had 18 certificates of deposit each valued at 50,001 dollars to 100,000 dollars and three certificates of deposit each worth 15,001 dollars to 50,000 dollars.

He had one US Treasury note worth 500,001 dollars to 1 million dollars; 12 US Treasury notes each valued at 250,001 dollars to 500,000 dollars; 4 Treasury notes each valued at 100,001 dollars to 250,000 dollars; and 1 Treasury note valued at ,001 to 0,000.

Cheney holds 50,000 Halliburton, 7,000 Electronic Data Systems, 10,068 Proctor &Gamble, and 3,600 Lockheed-Martin stock options that are vested and unexercised, of which the after-tax proceeds have been assigned to charity.

He exercised 383,333 Halliburton Company stock options in 2005 and donated the proceeds to charity.

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