Monday , November 2 , 2009The former US President was at a dinner meeting of the Indo-US CEOs Forum set up by him and Singh in 2005 to develop a road map for increased partnership and co-operation between the two countries at a business level.
Bush, however, repeated a joke he had made a few hours ago at the Hindustan Times Leadership Initiative in New Delhi.
“He said he recently visited a hardware store in Texas that had once offered him a job as a ‘greeter’ — (the employee) who stands outside to welcome customers,” the corporate honcho said.
Inside the store, a man came up and asked the ex-President whether anyone had ever told him he looked just like George W. Bush. When Bush told him that it happened a lot, the man said: “Gosh, that must make you mad.”
By all accounts Bush, once berated for blaming the rising prosperity of the Indian middle class for the spiralling global food prices, thoroughly enjoyed the Indian cuisine.
“He had two helpings of ras malai and generally ate well,” the CEOs Forum source said.
Not surprising for a man who had told an interviewer he would miss two things about the Presidency: flying in the presidential plane and the food at the White House.
