Canadian hosts charmed by Bush

[Lisa]

(comment: That's what the title of the article is -- but the contents suggest that not everyone in the selected crowd of Maritimers WAS won over.)

HALIFAX (CP) - Helen Murray was honoured to receive a warm, personal thank you from George W. Bush on Wednesday, but she said the U.S. president's charm failed to win her trust.

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""His thanks came a little too late," said Murray, a resident of Bedford, N.S., who took in a German family and a resident of New York after 44 diverted aircraft landed in Halifax three years ago.

"I think it's pretty obvious he had another reason for being here."




http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/12/01/754847-cp.html