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Originally Posted by Ecovlke
Well, they could be down in Crawford, TX chopping wood several days a month, heheheh.
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Do you seriously think that when a President has a house / ranch in this case he is not working when he is in his second home?
Yes, Bush went to Crawford a lot, but he was at his home, and even met with world leader there.
Crawford was a fully functioning Western White House, with communications and staff equivalent to the WH in DC… He hosted foreign dignitaries there as well…
Visitors to the ranch have included:
•Russian President Vladimir Putin, November 2001
•British Prime Minister Tony Blair, April 2002
•Saudi King Abdullah, April 2002, April 2005
•Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, August 2002
•Chinese President Jiāng Zémín, October 2002
•Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, February 2003
•Australian Prime Minister John Howard, May 2003
•Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Jun’ichirō, May 2003
•Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, July 2003
•Mexican President Vicente Fox, March 2004, March 2005
•Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, April 2004
•Spanish King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía, November 2004
•Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, March 2005
•Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, April 2005
•Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, August 2005
•German Chancellor Angela Merkel, November 2007
•Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, February 2008
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