Hail to the Chief...his motorcade in Rome?

With a cherubic smile G.W., Jr. waved to me from his limo! As the motor cortége was driving directly to the Vatican City for his audience with the Pope, I shouted to him: "God bless America!" The motorcycles in the motorcade were cool!

"Junior" was in the Caput Mundi for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Rome by the Allied Expeditionary Forces. It was General Mark Wayne Clark and the Vth Army that first arrived in the city on the morning of 4 of June, a.D. 1944.

So, LX years later, the two most powerful men in the world met in the Vatican. Both are believers in liberty. As everyone on the street stared fixedly at the Apostolic Palace during their private audience, I turned to a suntanned watermelon trader and said with pride: "It's great to be an American!"