You can answer your phone again -- nobody is calling you in the middle of dinner asking for your support.

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And what if you do invite him and then suddenly the couple are off again perhaps even in the middle of dinner?

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The president of Guatemala, Oscar Berger, took Mr. Bush's comment about dinner to mean he wanted to hear about the menu, right there, in the middle of the press conference.

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