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Welcome To The Briefing Room. No Questions Please.
With a snip of the ceremonial ribbon, President Bush today formally opened the remodeled White House Briefing Room.
New room, same show, as the president declined to answer reporters’ questions.
“Let’s do this,” Bush joked. “Let me cut the ribbon and then why don’t you all yell simultaneously, like really loudly, and that way you might get noticed.”
“I’ll like listen, internalize, play like I’m going to answer the question and then smile at you and just say thanks, thanks for such a solid question. Here we go. I’m going to cut the ribbon, then you yell, I cogitate, then I smile and wave,” he said.
And he did, smiling and waving his way back to the nearby Oval Office.
Laura Bush, however, hung around for a quick tour of the refurbished press corps work space.
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