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Byline: Julia Reed
It is Veterans Day, a week and a day since John Kerry conceded the election to George Bush, and the president is in the oval office about to have his portrait taken with the First Lady. He is clearly comfortable in the sunlit room he's now occupied for almost four years. The walls are covered with scenes from home-turn-of-the-century oils of cacti and bluebonnets and the Alamo, and Remington's The Bronco Buster sits on a chest. But when he agrees to a request to take off his jacket, the audible gasps among staffers signal that this is by far the most comfortable he's ever gotten. It's not the first time he's been asked to pose in his ...