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Thursday, May 25, 2006

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By Ken Herman | Thursday, May 25, 2006, 08:52 AM

President Bush and visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a couple of guys feeling the heat at home, will take to the airwaves tonight for a joint press conference at the White House.

The session, set for 7:30 p.m. EDT, comes as the two leaders meet to discuss developments in Iraq. Blair made a surprise visit there earlier this week.

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow says this will be a “real press conference,” not the kind of two-questions-per-side session often held when foreign leaders drop by. Under the two-question format, the leaders take a pair of questions from the White House press corps (usually one from a wire service and one from a TV network) and two from the visiting foreign press contingent. That format was used earlier this week when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was in town.

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