Next week,Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is to become the first foreign leader to visit the new president at the White House.

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From time to time, he would visit the Judge in his big stone house.

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But the White House says he chose Ghana for his first presidential visit to Africa south of the Sahara because of what he considers its strong democratic system.

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Afterwards, the senator from Arizona paid a visit to the White House to receive an endorsement from his former nemesis, George Bush.

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Pervez Musharraf is in the United States, not just to visit the White House, but to promote a new memoir.

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"I also regard the failure of the authority to visit every house after the incident to advise them to thoroughly flush their systems as a serious dereliction of their duty, " he said.

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