It looks like George W. Bush has known Stephen Payne pretty well for a long time.
The White House today tried to distance Bush from a former lobbyist who was caught on tape by the Times of London offering to arrange meetings with high-level U.S. officials in exchange for large payments to the future Bush presidential library fund.
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