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The President visited the Gulf Region today participating in a roundtable with small business owners and community leaders while visiting New Orleans and made remarks on Gulf Coast reconstruction at St. Stanislaus College in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended a Press Conference at the State Department and also held talks with Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace met with reporters at the Pentagon in Washington. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in the States she is making her first trip to the United...