The Pope is visiting Washington, D.C., and President
Bush takes him out for an afternoon on the Potomac,
cruising on the Presidential yacht, the Sequoia. They're
admiring the sights when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat
(zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water.
Secret Service guys start to launch a boat, but
President Bush waves them off, saying, "Wait, wait.
I'll take care of this. Don't worry."
The President then steps off the yacht onto the surface
of the water and walks out to the Pope's hat, bends
over, picks it up, and then walks back to the yacht and
climbs aboard. He hands the hat to the Pope amid stunned
silence.
The next morning, the headlines in the New York
Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Constitution, Washington
Post, Boston Herald, Buffalo News, Houston Chronicle,
Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Denver Post,
Albuquerque Journal, Los Angeles Times, Lexington Herald-Leader, and San
Francisco Chronicle all proclaim:
"Bush Can't Swim!"
