The reporters got in, our colleague Glenn Kessler reports from the scene, but were warned not to ask the president any questions. Mitchell popped one anyway. The thugs grabbed her shoulder and tried to drag her away, infuriating Rice and winning Mitchell oodles of publicity. As it happens, her book -- "Talking Back . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels" -- is being published soon.
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I guess she believes the title of her book is "a good thing."
Good manners in a foreign country is not very high on her list of appropriate actions.