Two hours of relentlessly hostile questioning awaited Mr Entwistle who was on the back foot from the start, lookinguncomfortable when asked about current sexual harassment complaints in the BBC.
With former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt writing a forceful essay backing Bush in the International Herald Tribune and even squeamish Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien looking more uncomfortable than ever over his recent anti-US rhetoric, the world once again is looking openly for American leadership.
But many of the objects exhibited are clunky, ungainly, garish, ugly or, stunningly uncomfortable-looking, like Kamsai Yamamoto's (for a "British Design" show, ever so slightly anomalous) knitted-wool stage costume for David Bowie.