Bush: Look Dick. You're the Vice-President. You must know all the world leaders.

Cheney: I certainly do.

Bush: Well you know I've never met most of them. So you'll have to tell me their names, and then I'll know who runs what.

Cheney: I'll tell you their names, George, but you know it seems to me they give these world leaders now-a-days very peculiar names.

Bush: You mean funny names?

Cheney: Strange names . . . like Mwai Kibaki.

Bush: Your whatty?

Cheney: Mwai Kibaki, the President of Kenya.

Bush: Oh.

Cheney: Let's see. Who else should you know? Putin's in Russia, Chirac's in France, Hu's in China . . .

Bush: That's what I want to find out. I heard that last one's coming to visit today.

Cheney: I said Hu's in China.

Bush: You do lots of business with those Chinese folk, don't ya?

Cheney: Yes.

Bush: And you don't know the President's name?

Cheney: Of course I do.

Bush: Well then who's the President in China?

Cheney: Yes.

Bush: I mean the fellow's name.

Cheney: Hu.

Bush: The President in China.

Cheney: Hu.

Bush: The Chinese President

Cheney: Hu.

Bush: The guy running . . .

Cheney: Hu is the President in China!

Bush: I'm asking YOU who's President.

Cheney: That's the man's name.

Bush: That's who's name?

Cheney: Yes.

Bush: Well go ahead and tell me.

Cheney: That's it.

Bush: That's who?

Cheney: Yes.

PAUSE

Bush: Look, you told me I gotta talk to somebody today about reducing a huge trade surplus. It's who?

Cheney: Naturally.

Bush: Who?

Cheney: Naturally.

Bush: Naturally?

Cheney: Naturally.

Bush: So I'll be meeting with Naturally.

Cheney: No, you'll be meeting with Hu.

Bush: Naturally.

Cheney: That's different.

Bush: That's what I said.

Cheney: You're not saying it.

Bush: I am meeting with Naturally.

Cheney: You are meeting with Hu.

Bush: Naturally.

Cheney: That's it.

Bush: That's what I said!

Cheney: You ask me.

Bush: I am meeting with who?

Cheney: Naturally.

Bush: Now you ask me.

Cheney: You are meeting with Hu?

Bush: Naturally.

Cheney: That's it.

Bush: Sweet.