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12-12-2007, 09:46 AM
A US school was inundated with phone calls after President Bush twice gave out the wrong phone number in a televised address.
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The US president, famous for his verbal gaffes, had urged worried homeowners to ring a help line for advice on how to ease the pain of rising bills.
"I have a message for every homeowner worried about rising mortgage payments: the best you can do for your family is to call 1-800-995-HOPE," he said, before repeating the number.
But the number was in fact for the Freedom Christian Academy in Texas, where the phone immediately began ringing off the hook.
The academy's Karen Pulaski was left re-directing callers to the Home Ownership Preservation Foundation.
"I've tried my best to give the correct number to these people when they called, but today it got a little overwhelming because I couldn't do anything except answer these calls," she told the Dallas Morning News.
White House officials later gave out the correct telephone number as 1-888-995-HOPE, which is included in an online version of Mr Bush's speech.
Ananaova
http://www.ananova.com/images/web/1185309.jpg
The US president, famous for his verbal gaffes, had urged worried homeowners to ring a help line for advice on how to ease the pain of rising bills.
"I have a message for every homeowner worried about rising mortgage payments: the best you can do for your family is to call 1-800-995-HOPE," he said, before repeating the number.
But the number was in fact for the Freedom Christian Academy in Texas, where the phone immediately began ringing off the hook.
The academy's Karen Pulaski was left re-directing callers to the Home Ownership Preservation Foundation.
"I've tried my best to give the correct number to these people when they called, but today it got a little overwhelming because I couldn't do anything except answer these calls," she told the Dallas Morning News.
White House officials later gave out the correct telephone number as 1-888-995-HOPE, which is included in an online version of Mr Bush's speech.
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