In her memoirs, Barbara Bush described one of
those most embarrassing moments that inevitably occur, even on the most
carefully advanced of foreign trips. Along with her husband, then the Vice
President, Mrs. Bush was lunching with Emperor Hirohito at Tokyo's Imperial
Palace.
Sitting next to the Emperor, Mrs. Bush found the conversation
an uphill task. To all her efforts at verbal engagement, the Emperor would
smile and say "Yes" or "No," with an occasional "Thank You" tossed in for good
measure.
Looking around her elegant surroundings, she complimented
Hirohito on his official residence.
"Thank you," he said.
"Is
it new?" pressed Mrs. Bush.
"Yes."
"Was the old palace just so
old that it was falling down?" asked Mrs. Bush.
In his most charming,
yet regal, matter, Hirohito replied, "No, I'm afraid that you bombed it."
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4 comments:
simply amazing!lol!
Well, the Emperor had a sense of humor....but they bombed us first. Linda in WA
It must be quite daunting to have to sit beside someone who answers in monasyllabic sound bites.
She should have said...serves you right for rattling our cage!
Jeanie
I'm sure I would have done far far worse, much to the humiliation of my DH. I'm sure she felt like slithering under the table.
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