In announcing a plan today to help strapped homeowners whose low introductory mortgage
interest rates are scheduled to rise, President George W. Bush gave out the wrong phone number, broadcast around the nation on television and the Web. It's not 1-800-995-HOPE -- which, at least for now, has a fast busy tone. No, as confirmed by a corrected release soon issued by the White House, the number is 1-888-995-HOPE.
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