As a joke, he gave the entire press corp on Airforce One a bag of pretzels.
It had a note that said, "chew slowly" or something like that on it, that he wrote.
Laura told Leno that the President was now practicing "safe snacks".
What a nice sense of humor!
Yes, they made a joke out of it themselves. I was replying to a poster who appeared to me to be trying to make something bigger out of the incident...like there was some secret health problem Bush has that was never accounted for. Ahhhhh...in a word - NO!