Barack Obama’s faux pas not first in errors
WASHINGTON — It was the bow that launched a thousand blog posts.
Conservative commentators complained that President Barack Obama should not have bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito during his presidential trip to Asia , but protocol experts say the president’s real faux pas came when he added a handshake, breaking Japanese custom.
With that, Obama took an unwitting part in a long American traditi...
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