President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush welcome author Khaled Hosseini to the White House for a screening Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, of the film adaptation of Hosseini's novel, "The Kite Runner," a fictional story of the friendship between Amir, a privileged boy, and Hassan, the son of his father's servant, in Afghanistan during the last days of the monarchy through the rule of the Taliban. Guests at the screening included: Vice President Dick Cheney; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace; National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley; Ambassador Said T. Jawad of Afghanistan; former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, now U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad; former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald E. Neumann; and President of the American University in Afghanistan Tom Stauffer.