President Bush

President George W. Bush (C) talks in the Rose Garden after meeting with G7 finance ministers and heads of international finance institutions at the White House in Washington, October 11, 2008. Also pictured behind him are (L-R): Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Eurogroup Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker, Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alister Darling, Italy's Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, Germany's Finance Minster Peer Steinbrueck and World Bank President Robert Zoellick.