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 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush inaugurated the refurbished White House briefing room on Wednesday, showing off a sparkling upgrade to both the guts and face of the famous space.
"Welcome back to the West Wing," he said to the presidential press corps, assembled in the room for the first time since the massive renovation began 11 months ago. "We missed you — sort of."
Bush apparently decided not to take that particular line of humor much further, sticking mostly to acknowledgments of the press' need for better than the "substandard conditions" of before. Though he joshed that reporters' questions represent "verbal bullets" and that he doesn't always like their stories, one line in his prepared remarks was crossed out: "There's no truth to the rumor some of those new seats can be ejected by pressing a button at Tony's podium."
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