Word: mr
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...PRESIDENT: Mr. Secretary General, Madam President, distinguished delegates, and ladies and gentlemen: I want to thank you for the privilege of speaking to this General Assembly...
Ahmadinejad's handlers said our interview would last only 30 minutes, but he let it go on despite their protests. At last we were passed a note: "The time is over and Mr. President has an important meeting with the Cuban President. Goodbye." Ahmadinejad bolted from the room, swapped his jacket for a suit coat and climbed into a Mercedes. As the car pulled away, he sat in the back with an aide, smiled one more time and threw us a final wave...
NICE OF POTUS TO NOTICE President Bush interrupts his Rose Garden press conference to bestow an unexpected compliment, telling NBC's David Gregory (who recently tussled with a microphone cord), "I must say, having gone through those gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave." Oh, Mr. President, you big flirt...
...ethics office kicked back to her, "one was about a dinner Steve Griles had in the home of a lobbyist (which Griles paid for), and the other was a question about the definition of a 'particular matter' under federal ethics guidelines. On that latter point, I simply viewed Mr. Devaney's interpretation as legally incorrect...
...even felt bold enough to mockingly chastise one journalist's query about "the eavesdropping program." "We call it the 'terrorist surveillance program,'" he interjected, eyebrows wriggling. Then there was a forcefully jocular exchange with Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times, who explained her rather informal greeting - "Hi, Mr. President" - by saying "We're a friendly newspaper." The gathered reporters started giggling even before Bush could deliver the pat punchline: "Let me just say, I'd hate to see unfriendly...