Bush rang Blair and asked him (queruously) what his boy Jack was on.
British Foreign Secretaries are appointed in the White House.
The new Foreign Secretary is Margaret Beckett- famous for having been around a long, long time and for having never said or done anything memorable (except call Neil Kinnock, a "Judas").
She used to be a leftie, but that was in another country; and besides, the wench is dead.