(2 Jul 2007)
1. Russian President Vladimir Putin and former US President George Bush getting out of helicopter and walking towards car and getting in
2. Car driving away
3. Putin flanked by US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, greeting Barbara Bush, former US First Lady and giving both ladies bouquets, pull out to wide, zoom in to Bush, Bush senior and Putin, pan to First ladies
4. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice going to Putin and greeting him, Putin greeting other officials
5. The two presidents walking up stairs and entering house, zoom out to wide of property
STORYLINE:
Relations are rocky between President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but their meeting began Sunday with handshakes and smiles, and flowers and kisses from Putin for first lady Laura Bush and Bush's mother.
Bush waited at his family's Maine seacoast estate as his father, former President George H.W. Bush, met Putin at a nearby airport and rode with the Russian leader in a helicopter to the compound.
Emerging from a limousine, Putin handed large bouquets of flowers to Laura Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, then kissed them on both
cheeks.
"It's pretty casual up here - unstructured," Bush said about the setting for his talks with Putin.
Bush knows what he wants from the visit: convince Putin that a U.S. missile defence system in Eastern Europe would not threaten Russia.
Bring the Kremlin behind tough new penalties aimed at Iran's suspected nuclear weapons programme.
Generally defrost relations.
What the Russian president seeks is less clear.
Putin requested a meeting with Bush before going to Guatemala, where Olympic officials are picking a host city for the 2014 winter games.
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