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- BUSH: “Yo Brown, leader not elected – me too.”
The log cabins of Camp David in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland will tomorrow once more be the setting for the awkward mating ritual between an American president and a British Prime Minister.
It was at the same spot, more than six long years ago, that Tony Blair first met President Bush and then — as now — the White House told Downing Street it wanted the meeting to be informal.
The Prime Minister, after some intense consultation with his style advisers, wore a pair of blue corduroys later described by the man who was British ambassador at the time as “ball-crushingly tight”. Mr Bush made a strange joke about sharing the same toothpaste — Colgate — and a ring of confidence formed around their relationship.
Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah celebrate the
Chancellor’s victory in Fife. David Cheskin/PA
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July 17, 2006 – During Israel’s bombing raids over Lebanon
Blair: Syria
Bush: Why?
Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thing
Bush: Yeah.
Blair: What does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if we get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way…
Bush: Yeah, yeah, he is sweet
Blair: He is honey. And that’s what the whole thing is about. It’s the same with Iraq
Bush: I felt like telling Kofi to call, to get on the phone to Bashad [Bashir Assad] and make something happen
Blair: Yeah
… and these are the leaders op the most powerful nations on earth?
Transcript/Translation Bush Remarks in Washington DC
Mon Aug 14th, 2006 at 03:05:38 PM PST
MOSCOW (The Independent) July 18, 2006 —
CNN: British newspapers saw Blair
as having more reason than Bush
for embarrasment.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
