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Article: The President's news conference with Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom at Camp David, Maryland.(Week Ending Friday, August 3, 2007)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
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- August 6, 2007
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July 30, 2007
President Bush. Welcome. Thank you. It's good to have you here. So everybody is wondering whether or not the Prime Minister and I were able to find common ground, to get along, to have a meaningful discussion. And the answer is, absolutely. You know, he probably wasn't sure what to expect from me, and I kind of had a sense that--of the kind of person I'd be dealing with. I would describe Gordon Brown as a principled man who really wants to get something done. In other words, in my discussions with him last night, we spent about 2 hours over dinner, just alone. We dismissed the rest of the delegations to the bowling 'alley, I think. [Laughter] And as ...