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Julianne Smith, director of the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "Bush, Brown Stress Unity Amidst Financial Tumult."
April 18, 2008

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Julianne Smith

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush and Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown showed a united front on a host of thorny global issues Thursday, with Mr. Brown proclaiming that the alliance between the U.S. and the United Kingdom is "stronger than ever."

 

"For his purposes, the goal for Brown is twofold: to put a brave face on the Bush-Brown relations and talk about things like Iraq, and show that the U.S. and U.K. relationship is not in decline and we are not going through a frosty period," said Julianne Smith, director of the Europe Program at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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