The quality furniture:

Lots of pics when you click below...

Bush asks reporters: "You want to double the room's size? Forget it!"

The media back-scratching is never ending (Joe Curl):

The rock-star of the day: Helen Thomas

The Hill's Pat Ryan and Lester Kinsolving (who is dying to know President Bush's position on Mel Gibson):

Party food:

Connie Lawn tries--unsuccessfully--to get reporters to sing "Auld Lang Syne", in honor of the room's closing.

Dee Dee Myers:

Joe Lockhart wonders why he ever left:

Sam Donaldson goes back to the old days and heckles Bush about whether Mel Gibson should be forgiven:

Bush responds, "Sam, you're a has been."

"Sam, I can't hear you," said Bush, to Donaldson, who was in the back of the room. "I'm over 60...like you!"

Bush says his best moment in the room was "when the conference was over."

Donaldson and Lockhart:

Ford Press Secretary Ron Nessen:

Proof positive that press secretaries like to talk down to people:

Joe Lockhart walks the long, lonely road away from the White House: