But the scene is a short one compared with the pages he spends describing his belated visit to his mother's grave in Romania.
Over five days last week, from the onset of the hurricane on the Gulf Coast on Monday morning to his belated visit to the region on Friday, Bush's mettle was tested — and he failed in almost every respect.
Another, referring to a belated visit to some stricken areas by Algeria's president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, showed a sodden citizen announcing that "Boutef" had been carried off by a torrent.
But we're not talking a somewhat belated visit to the Oktoberfest (beer festival) here: the fans as well as two two liaison officers refused to adhere to unprecedented security controls in two temporary structures outside the Allianz Arena.
Well, in a sense it was her day, as the song said; her visit to the show was a slightly belated birthday gift from her friend and kick-line cohort, Gail Tanney, 53, also from Bayside.
That was an issue that could be decided only by Syrians, he insisted - a diplomatic disappointment for some critics - after visiting the Syrian president and sounding supportive about his belated, half-hearted attempts at reform.
The taxpayers from the sovereign state of Kazakhstan have been lavishly subsidising the publicity for Baron Cohen's new movie with fury-filled full-page government ads in the New York Times, a personal complaint from the Kazakh president to Mr George W Bush, followed by a belated and half-hearted official invitation to Baron Cohen to come visit.
Seeadler visited the United States in March 1893, along with the protected cruiser, for the belated celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Columbus's crossing of the Atlantic.
But his visit, after almost two years in office, is widely viewed as belated, and the weekly Der Spiegel mockingly portrayed the chancellor on its cover setting out in a safari hat for the unknown desert around Berlin.
It will be Cameron's first visit to Israel since he became prime minister, and in what some regard as a belated two-day trip, he will try to set out a vision to all sides detailing how Palestine and Israel could be transformed economically if they could strike a deal with aid flowing from the EU and the rest of the world.
