Bush To Lovely Chilean Ambassador:'I Must Paint You'

WASHINGTON, DC—After spotting Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. Natalia Verdugo at a D.C.-area café Tuesday, a smitten President Bush promptly invited the bewitching diplomat to his artist’s garret in the East Wing of the White House. “I must paint you,” Bush reportedly told Verdugo. “I simply must commit your beauty to the canvas immediately. Please, come away with me to my studio, where the early-evening light from my western window shall caress your undraped form.” Though she eventually agreed to pose for the president, Verdugo drew the line at “an afternoon of fiery passion” among his charcoal sketches.