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Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2006 2:39 p.m. EDT

Bush Calls Sam Donaldson a 'Has Been'

As President George W. Bush joined the last daily press briefing in the White House press room, which will undergo a nine-month renovation, he took a moment to answer some questions.

At that time, a reporter shouted:

"Mr. President, should Mel Gibson be forgiven?"

The president laughed and looked into the audience to see who shouted the remark:

"Sam Donaldson, is that you? I don't have to talk to you anymore, you're a has been," the president joked.

First, there was laughter, then perhaps a more circumspect laughter.

The president then called the White House press corps a "beautiful bunch of people," and said the best question he received from them was their final question.

But, in the end, Bush did not respond to the former ABC News anchor's question.

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The president and first lady Laura Bush surprised media members gathered in the James Brady Room, the formal name for the press briefing room, for the final press conference there.

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow had invited several of his predecessors to the final briefing, including James Brady, Marlin Fitzwater, Dee Dee Myers, and Joe Lockhart.

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