The beginning of the Bush presidency was marked by an incident which probably would have brought down a president Gore - when Bush got down on his knees and begged for forgiveneess from the Chinese as they stole a bunch of classified information from it.
Ah, those innocent times, when all the wingnuts were arguing that Bush only said "sorry" instead of "really really sorry" so somehow he wasn't actually saying "sorry" at all...
or something.