In a reverse of gender chivalry, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave up her aircraft bed so British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw could sleep.
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The weekend incident aboard Rice's Boeing 757 was made even odder by the fact Rice, 51, slept on the floor in the aisle as Straw, 59, slept in comfort, The Mirror reported.
The pair was en route to Kuwait en route to Iraq, and the aircraft has only one sleeping cabin.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Baghdad diplomatically told The Mirror that the pair's sleeping arrangements were "a private matter which I couldn't comment on."
Monday, the pair urged Iraqis to shun armed violence and back democracy as they addressed reporters in Baghdad. Both returned to London, where Rice had dinner with Prime Minister Tony Blair.
