The President is often energized by people that he -- not just crowds like that, but people he meets on the ropeline, and people that he even sees at eventslike the past couple of days.
Here, then, is a retrospective look at some of the scariest side effects to crop up over the past 12 months--from rare eventslike liver failure or brain-wasting diseases to more common ones such as heart attacks or strokes.
Make no mistake, this was, like so many events choreographed by the Bush White House over the past four years, a presentation designed solely to reinforce the president's policies.