The New York Times

At a news conference last week, Mr. Bush joked that he did not have the time "to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, 'How do you think my standing will be?' " And at the end of an interview with a Belgian television correspondent last month, Mr. Bush blurted out to the young woman that she had "great eyes," glanced away slyly and then a little sheepishly, but for the most part seemed sorry that the session was over. Is this a new George Bush?

President Bush's New Public Face: Confident and 'Impishly Fun'
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The New York Times
Published: March 28, 2005