His other career -- as an adventurer -- came about when he met John Doble, the former British High Commissioner to Swaziland, who introduced him to mountain climbing and funded his first ascents.
He met with General John Abizaid, who heads the US Central Command, and with General George Casey, the commander of US forces in Iraq.
The British media also seized on Romney's disclosure after his visit with Prime Minister David Cameron that he had met Sir John Sawers, head of the British Intelligence agency MI6.
The Secretary-General left Vientiane in the late afternoon of Saturday, 11 April, for New York via a stopover in Bangkok, where at the airport he met with Prime Minister John Key of New Zealand.
Later that day, Dickson visited a bistro in the city's Hyndland area where he met another regular customer, John McHugh.
He met with Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Health, and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, among others.
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Bush had earlier met Pope John Paul II and he said he would take the pope's rejection of stem cell research using embryos into consideration when he decides whether to allow funding for the controversial practice.
It was there that he met the former British High Commissioner to Swaziland, John Doble, who asked Vilane why a black man had never climbed Everest.
Charles met Pope John Paul II in 1985 when he visited Rome with Diana, Princess of Wales.
To prove his good intentions Rogers has made repeated pilgrimages to Silicon Valley, where he's met with people like Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr and Larry Brilliant of Google.org, the search giant's do-gooder arm.
Although a registered Republican, Kirsch has been a supporter of Gore's bid for the presidency since he met the vice president at a Silicon Valley fund-raiser featuring rock star Elton John.
Apart from Sedgefield and Mr Clinton, the other main influence on Mr Blair came from the communitarian ideas of the philosopher John Macmurray and later thinkers, such as the American sociologist, Amitai Etzioni, whom he met in 1995.
After an unsatisfying bit of online research, Kelly finds an answer provided by John Knoll, co-creator of Photoshop and Oscar-winning Visual Effects Director, who he met at a party.
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He also defended his chief of staff Ed Llewellyn's decision to decline an offer from former Met police Assistant Commissioner John Yates to brief Mr Cameron on the police's phone-hacking investigation.
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