Australia’s Ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley, still quips that John Winston Howard is his nemesis. This does not prevent the ambassador telling perhaps the best story about Prime Minister Howard travelling in the United States. One of the American press contingent asked; ‘Tell us, Mr Howard, what is Australia like?’
The PM considered the question for a moment and then replied: ‘Well, we are a lot like California.
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