Transcript of Roundtable Interview of the President by British Print Journalists
11/14/03 12:10:00 PM
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 U.S. Newswire -- Following is a transcript of the roundtable interview of President Bush by British print journalists:
The Oval Office
2:08 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: I wanted to show you this shrine to democracy here, kind of give you a sense of who I am.
Laura designed that -- that would be my wife. I wanted people to, when they walk in here, to have a sense of optimism. I wanted people to say, the person whose office is in here, or who works in here, is an optimistic person. And I thought she did a fabulous job capturing my sense about our future.
Well, as you can see, it's got sun rays.
It is as if Bushisms--which used to be single-word or single-sentence assaults on the English language--are a highly infectious virus that has now devoured the entirety of the speech center of the President's brain.