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U2 singer Bono tells of meetings with Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in Michka Assayas’ new book, “Bono in Conversation.”

“What was the first thing [Clinton] said to you?” asks Assayas.

“I can’t remember…’Have a cigar’… probably,” replies Bono.

When he met Bush, whom he calls “very funny and quick,” he told the president that the “6,500 people dying every day of a preventable and treatable disease” in Africa was unacceptable. The president agreed, saying, “It’s a kind of genocide.” Bono says: “It really helped us, in using that word. He knew it was hyperbole, but it was effective.”

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