bipartisan congressional resolution that honors all those wonderful contributions that journalists have made to our country and the world. but unfortunately i couldn't break the filibuster. thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. god bless the united states. america. and now the president. thank you. thank you very much.

thank you very, steve. mr. president, members of the white house correspondents association, ladies and gentlemen, laura and i are honored to be here tonight. thanks for the invitation invitation. what a fantastic audience we had tonight. washington power. celebrities, hollywood stars, ozzy.

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andrew carriers are entertainment tonight. drew a fun tv show called whose line it anyway which is totally. drew got an interest in the middle east east. last year at this dinner i showed some photos straight of the bush family photo album. tonight i'm going to show some actual never seen before photos taken by the white house photographers over the past 15 months. we've created just for you this little slide.

of what life is really like inside bush white house. so, karen, if everyone's in the seats, you've assign them. hit the projector. when i look back over the last year, i i've grown in office. i'm much more focused and i feel. i mean, there are moments where i feel a little stress. i may have aged a bit. one of the great things about being in the white house is, is having laura close by whenever she by my office, my day is

brighter. helps me in a million ways. here she is. me pronounce. how's your bajan bajan. we have two dogs. this is our dog, barney. i tell him what i browsed like that he ought to be a. you can tell barney is in some trouble here. this is the day he chewed up the list of undisclosed locations. and we couldn't find --. the little guy keeps a lookout like this. our after our kind of wish. tom ridge never had that talk

with him about homeland. now is our dog spot. people often ask. how i came up with that name. i don't know. i'm just kind of a creative guy. i think about spot is that she is she actually thinks she's the president. here she is coming back from a fundraiser for the american kennel club. but she is truly a great canine american. and i value her counsel just as i value the council brothers on the staff have. we have a very experienced, mature team of professionals at the white house.

this is josh bolten. he's the white house deputy of staff. should sleep better at night knowing that this levelheaded man is helping to guide our nation. this is nick calio, the head of our office of legislative affairs. i had just said to him, nick, what are the chances of the senate passing in more. nick? nick, really prepares me. well, when the congressional leaders down for meetings. here he is testing out a whoopee we're going to use on senator byrd. but we really have a highly group down at the white house, no matter what the task at hand. each of us gives 110%.

the truth. the door to the oval office has little peephole. this is karen hughes in on me. this is karl rove peeping in on the this is condi rice peeping in. spot has her own people. this is andy card peeping in on me. and ladies and gentlemen. this is the vice president of the united states looking through a peephole. and --, i hope you're not doing what it looks like you're doing. this photo actually has nothing

to with anything. i thought i'd show it. do you, however, it's the only known photo in existence of alan greenspan smiling. this is ari, of course, i was chewing him out here. i'm saying, ari, i am sick and tired of you not fulling answering all the wonderful questions asked by our hardworking white house press corps. are you sure, ari? we're not leaking enough. are you sure that given them enough access to me, i've an idea. i'll do more interviews with baseball tonight. now, part of the job of a president is to meet with representatives of special interest groups.

here i am meeting with representatives from the american cloning council. i try work with republicans and democrats alike for political reasons. some democrats prefer that it not be known they are working with a republican president, so they slip in back door like hillary clinton here. it's not all work, of course. one day i decided to show some of the staff, the white house bowling alley boys and girls. there is a reason you wear those bowling shoes. of course, another job of the president dealing with the white house press.

you some pretty tough questions, but to tell you the truth, don't think you've laid a glove on me. here i am after. our last press conference. in closing tonight, i thought about turning serious and talking about all we've been through since i here last year. but then i started this one, the time or the place you came. have a good time. we've drew carey waiting to entertain us. so instead, i'm going to leave you with one last thought and last photo of our dogs spot. i you, ladies and gentlemen, is this a great country? what? thank you very much.