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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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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Wouldn't you know it? A few months later, they invited meand the Ping-Pong team to visit the White House.

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

NPR: Musharraf Denies Pakistan Is Harboring Taliban

"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.

BBC: Carole Cross

Hundreds of young conservatives flooded into the capital to listen to their heroes (including a wrestler called Warrior), to learn how to identify liberal textbook bias, to visit the White House, and to watch Karl Rove receiving the Lee Atwater Leadership Award.

ECONOMIST: A youthquake that is helping George Bush