I loved this from The Age today:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/im-here-to-help-howard/2008/04/14/1208025099730.html
“Mr Howard said he continued to grieve for parliamentary colleagues who had lost their seats, and learned two things while on a recent trip to the United States. One was that Labor was praising the strength of the Australian economy overseas, but criticising the Howard government’s economic performance at home. The other was that his diplomacy needed work.
Asked at a function at the George Bush presidential library in Texas to name¬†his top three achievements, he started with gun control.¬†No one in the Texan audience clapped.”