Bowden held to his position, and Gillick eventually dropped Reese from their talks.
From the first time Barack Obama summoned the country's leading presidential historians to dinner, they saw that the type of discussion he wanted would be different from their talks with previous Oval Office occupants.
"This is a relationship that I value hugely," Mr. Blair said Friday night with Mr. Putin standing by his side as the two men took a break from their talks at Chequers, the prime minister's official country residence in Buckinghamshire.
What emerged from their talks over the past few weeks surprised many in Washington: a wide-ranging and broadly bipartisan bill that would ease financial regulations and protect investors.
During a break from their talks, Mr. Kim and Mr. Moon ambled off for a walk through the woods of Panmunjom, with cameras broadcasting their outing live around the world.
They went along because they believed that the bill, by setting tougher national standards for public schools, would help children; and, more to the point, they came away from their talks with Bush believing that he was going to pour new federal funding into the schools.
