White House photographer
TIME's White House photographer Christopher Morris on covering the Bush Administration frame by frame.

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The most challenging part is the creative end of it. It's like somebody says you're gonna to photograph the same guy in the same suit for five years, it's very difficult.

The most interesting part of covering the president, it's, um just the fact that he is the President of the United States, it's...um...you know the center of power, and I do like the controversy of who he is.

"We are ready, and pride, really to the stroff@$$%"……

Whenever you travel with them, may have this whole long drove that travels with him, so for me visually that staff is a lot more appealling to photograph than him himself.

"and a year ago I made a pledge that we will learn the lessons of Katrina and that we will do what it takes to help you recover."

But yeah, I like to photograph the guy who carries the nuclear suitcase and his personal valet, and the secret service agents, the SWAT(Special Weapons and Tactics) team, they're called the cat team that travels with him, sometimes they fly on their helicopter.

There's this whole secret agent thing, er...the secret service, I call them secret agents, but this meaning black, it's very X-files. er...man you know guy in the suit in the garage or in the wheat field or, standing in trees, so that's always intrigued me the...you know the lone agent next to a Crown Victoria, it's um...kind of that whole like homeland security kinda feel.

And then there's another aspect of it is the...you know republican fashion became into the fashion that people wore, the necklaces, the lips, the lipstick, um and then there's the whole portraits of this cult of personality of this idolatry of the way that people look at the president. And kind of...just the stare that people got.

I think in 20, 30 years from now, i think it's important, it's a real anthropological look at America, and America s...