2008 Republican Party presidential primaries 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries The 2008 Republican presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Senator John McCain of Arizona was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2008 Republican National Convention held from Monday, September 1, through Thursday, September 4, 2008, in St. Paul, Minnesota. President George W Bush was ineligible to be elected to a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. In a
James Woods the Oscars when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the Oliver Stone drama "Salvador" (1986), portraying real-life journalist Rick Boyle as he chronicles events in El Salvador. Woods earned another Oscar nomination, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role of the infamous white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in "Ghosts of Mississippi" (1996). In 1995, he took the role of Lester Diamond in Martin Scorsese's "Casino". That same year, he portrayed H. R. Haldeman in "Nixon", the biopic of Richard M. Nixon, directed by Oliver Stone. In 1999, he appeared in "The