THIS WAS A LITTLE HARD TO BELIEVE

In this Politico story, then-Pres. Bush is reported to have spent a whopping 7 whole minutes touring the Kremlin. I used LexisNexis to check this claim and it seems to be true. This 2008 WaPo article¹ mentioned it: "The president, a famously indifferent tourist who skipped the Taj Mahal and raced through the Kremlin cathedrals in seven minutes flat, is cramming five countries in six days, with little time for sightseeing" and so did this 2002 NY Times article²: "President Bush, who last week compressed a scheduled half-hour of Kremlin sightseeing into a seven-minute blur.."


¹The Washington Post
February 18, 2008 Monday
Regional Edition
So Who's Counting?
BYLINE: Peter Baker
SECTION: A-SECTION; Pg. A15
LENGTH: 825 words
DATELINE: DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania

²The New York Times
May 27, 2002 Monday
Late Edition - Final
Visiting Synagogue, Bush Praises Russian Religious Tolerance
BYLINE: By MICHAEL WINES
SECTION: Section A; Column 3; Foreign Desk; Pg. 4
LENGTH: 711 words
DATELINE: ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, May 26