"It's Bush, and he's very friendly," recalled Mr. Naishtat, a liberal who is the chairman of the House committee that was then considering welfare legislation.
Stanley Valjan, 31, another neighbor, said Mr. Matthews was friendly, recalling a recent invitation from Mr. Matthews to go to a club in Manhattan on Monday, but Mr. Valjan declined.
The executives were friendly, Arney recalls, but mostly they were confused, even a little disconcerted.
He was "very, very friendly," Gilman recalled.
"He seemed pretty friendly," Mr. Riccobono recalled.
"They were really great, really friendly," she recalled.
Andrew kept me informed of the needs to maintain a bicycle-friendly campus," recalls O'Reilly.
"We were around the pool one morning looking for friendly faces," recalled Ms. Gruber, a video producer.
"I said, 'I'm sure he's just trying to be friendly,' " she recalled.
Theodore M. Leary Jr., the president of Crosswater Realty Advisors in Los Angeles and a longtime friendly competitor, recalled how that came about: "Joe called me one day and said, 'Ted, this is the greatest workout in history, and we need to get involved.' I got on a plane and flew back to Washington the next day".
