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...three months ago, and his dispatching of Kouchner to Iraq is clearly another example. The U.S.-pleasing trip also guaranteed Sarkozy headlines his first day back on the job following a two-week vacation in New Hampshire - during which he created much media buzz with his July 12 private lunch with U.S. President George W. Bush at his family's Kennebunkport, Maine, summer home. The result was much-hyped warmth over what one Elysée official called the miracle of the two men "being able to discuss all the major international issues, and cordially agree that they...
...nice part of the Valley--which he cleans himself, or, more accurately, doesn't. He says he has no interest in fame, which is why he is one of the few High School Musical stars not to have signed a record contract. And why he refuses to have lunch at the Ivy, where people go to be shot by paparazzi. "I can get an equally good sandwich at Quiznos: the honey mustard chicken sandwich with bacon on whole wheat. It's pretty cheap. If I buy a foot-long sandwich, it's like two meals." No, two made...
...When Sarkozy rolled up to Chez Bush 45 minutes late - a tardiness fashionable in France, but possibly rude in New England - he was without his wife Cécilia, who bowed out of the informal lunch invitation due to a sore throat. Still, here was a French president who has dedicated himself to repairing the sour atmosphere between his predecessor and the White House, presenting himself as a partner with whom the U.S. can deal in greater confidence. Even though Chirac's opposition to the Iraq war reflected the view of most world leaders - including Sarkozy - that opposition made France...
...disagrees, suggesting the Sarkozy-Bush lunch was simply a photo op for domestic consumption on both sides of the Atlantic. "For the U.S. public, this was viewed as the popular new French president coming to call on the unpopular out-going American president," he says. "To the French, it was mainly became a lunch Cécilia wound up not going...
...getting a little depressed about Iraq," Graham admitted at one point. "Think of what it is doing to Bush. There doesn't seem to be any way out." The President, he said, had reached out in recent months on different subjects, trying to arrange a White House lunch or visit. "We've postponed it three times now. I've not been able to do it because of my wife. I felt badly...