WORLD LEADERS UNITE

President Bush has a joint press conference with Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai in the White House Rose Garden on January 28, 2002, in Washington, D.C. Karzai is on his first official visit to Washington and will appear as an honored guest of President Bush at the State of the Union address.

President Bush (center) and Prime Minister of Ireland Bertie Ahern (left) are escorted down the stairs outside the U.S. Capitol by the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hartert (right), in front of bagpipers on March 13, 2002.