While sometimes needling Bush, Fox also doles out heaps of praise, applauding his onetime U.S. counterpart for "cultural sensitivity." Fox writes that several days before the attacks of Sept. 11, he and Bush pumped hands and hugged at Andrews Air Force Base after returning on Air Force One from an Ohio immigration reform rally.

"We're going to get this done," Fox recalls Bush telling him. By then, Fox writes, Bush had improved his Spanish and had "mastered the traditional male hug of Mexican culture, the abrazo."