"Freudian slip: Rice mistakes Bush for husband"

Rice's power dinner remark goes down like a pudding

Washington: There is a buzz over a comment the US National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, made at an apparently off-the-record Washington power dinner with the publisher of the The New York Times, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger jnr, and other Times people at the home of the newspaper's Washington bureau chief, Philip Taubman.

According to an account in New York magazine, Dr Rice said at one point: "As I was telling my husb . . .". then stopped and said: "As I was telling President Bush . . ." Eyebrows jumped; jaws dropped. There was a slight pause in the chatter. While the first phrase was correctly reported, there is a possibility the second one did not immediately follow. In which case, it is not at all clear whom or what Dr Rice, who is single, may have been talking about. Meanwhile, Mr Taubman is said to be put out by the publicity and told everyone to clam up.

The Washington Post

Source: www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/25/1082831438477.html