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Thought it might be a good day to remember - "Bush Looking Into Putin's Eyes"
Looking in Putin's Eyeshttp://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/12623580-12623583-slarge.jp
Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush once told the world that he had looked Vladimir Putin in the eye, gotten ``a sense of his soul'' and found the Russian leader to be ``very straightforward and trustworthy.''
That moment in 2001 was the apex of a belief -- central to American thinking since at least the 1991 Soviet collapse -- that a close personal relationship between the leaders of Russia and the U.S. could be a cornerstone of American foreign policy and a stabilizing influence in international affairs
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a3QnVM4h.sF8&refer=europe
