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Photo of Bush and Rudd appears on White House website after initial snub.

Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted that President Bush gave Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd a “frosty reception” at last weekend’s G20 summit perhaps because of a leak from Rudd’s office last month that revealed Bush didn’t know what the G20 was. The White House website showed photographs of Bush with all of the world leaders in attendance at the summit except for Rudd and one other leader. “The move appears to confirm a presidential snub of Mr Rudd over the leaking of a phone conversation he had with Mr Bush,” the Melbourne Herald Sun reported. But now, the White House appears to have acquiesced. Yesterday, there were 25 photos on the White House website. Today there are 26. The addition? A photo of Bush and Rudd:

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