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Air Force One -- behind, yes, barbed wire. What else, in Cattle Country?It's not often a President of the United States visits out here in the sagebrush but Elko, Nevada -- my neck of the sage -- was honored today when President Bush arrived aboard Air Force One for a stirring speech, which he said he was happy to deliver "in a part of the country where the cowboy hats outnumber the ties." "Laura sends her best," the President said. "I wish she were here in Elko with me. We were both raised in a part of the world that's...