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Kissing colleagues
Breach of protocol?
Kissing colleagues get scrutiny at highest level
By Jean Patteson Tribune Newspapers: Orlando Sentinel Published December 1, 2004
As actor Dooley Wilson crooned in Casablanca: "You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss ..."
But is it?
A photograph that ran on the front page of newspapers across the country last month raises the question: How do we view kissing between colleagues?
The image shows President Bush planting a kiss on the right cheek of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice after tapping her for secretary of state. Bush is pictured in profile, looking down at her face. Rice leans toward the president, eyes closed, lips parted.
Was the kiss just a kiss--a spontaneous expression of affection and congratulations? Or was it a breach of protocol? Or a chauvinistic misstep? .....
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