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  George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Barbara Bush often jokes that her successful life is a result of marrying well.
Bush grew up in Rye, New York, where she met and later married George Herbert Walker Bush on January 6, 1945.
In 1989, she helped develop the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy whose mission is to support the development of family literacy programs; break the intergenerational cycle of illiteracy; and establish literacy as a value in every American family.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /biosandphotos/barbarabush.html   (421 words)

  
 Biography of Barbara Bush
Barbara was born in 1925 to Pauline and Marvin Pierce, who later became president of McCall Corporation.
Barbara Bush was always an asset to her husband during his campaigns for public office.
Bush still finds time to work on an autobiography, serve on the Boards of AmeriCares and the Mayo Clinic, and continue her prominent role in the Barbara Bush Foundation.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/bb41.html   (510 words)

  
  Bush family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothy Walker Bush, the wife of Prescott, was the daughter of George Herbert Walker of the well-connected Walker family of bankers and businessmen
James Smith Bush (1825-1869), an Episcopal priest in New Jersey, California, and New York, was the son of Obadiah Bush and the father of Samuel Prescott Bush.
First Lady Barbara Bush (née Pierce), the wife of George H.W. Bush (the 41st President of the United States) and the mother of George W. Bush (the 43rd), is related to Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), the 14th.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_and_Jenna_Bush   (975 words)

  
 American President
Barbara Bush toured homeless shelters, day-care centers, and hospitals, where she spent time with children suffering from leukemia, becoming a living memorial to a daughter who died of the disease.
Barbara was committed to increasing the literacy rate in the United States and used the power of her office to realize that goal.
Barbara Bush had more moderate views than the President on issues such as abortion and women in combat, but kept her opinions largely to herself.
www.americanpresident.org /history/georgehwbush/firstlady   (890 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Barbara Bush pitches for Social Security makeover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Barbara Bush, wearing her trademark pearls, took the stage with the president and another of her sons, Gov. Jeb Bush.
Bush contends he's making progress on the Social Security issue, but polls show growing opposition to his idea to overhaul the system by allowing younger workers to put some of their payroll taxes into private retirement accounts.
Bush was a new face on his road tour and their interplay spiced up the discussion about Social Security, oft full of numbers and projections that can make eyes glaze over.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-03-18-barbara-bush_x.htm?csp=34   (567 words)

  
 Barbara Bush - MSN Encarta
Barbara Bush, born in 1925, first lady of the United States (1989-93).
Barbara Pierce Bush was born in Rye, New York, a great-great-great niece of Franklin Pierce, the 14th U.S. president (1853-57).
As a preparatory-school senior she met her future husband, George Bush, and dropped out in her sophomore year (1945) at Smith College to marry him.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568893/Barbara_Bush.html   (224 words)

  
 Barbara Bush: Disciplinarian with wit
Their twin granddaughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, teased their grandmother about not being hip Tuesday night when they spoke at the Republican convention.
Barbara Bush may have been joking about whether she was familiar with the ribald television series when interviewed by ABC's "Good Morning America," but she readily acknowledged that she is more likely to lay down the law with the twins than either her husband or the twins' own parents.
The former first lady recalled receiving a letter from someone she knows saying she should tell Jenna Bush how outrageous it was for her to have stuck out her tongue at photographers while traveling with her father on a campaign trip, an act caught on film.
www.azcentral.com /families/articles/0902CVNBushFamily02-ON.html   (385 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Barbara Bush earmarked hurricane donation for son's company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HOUSTON (AP) — Former first lady Barbara Bush gave relief money to a hurricane relief fund on the condition that it be spent to buy educational software from her son Neil's company.
Barbara Bush chose to promote Ignite because she supports her son and has genuine enthusiasm for his company's program, Becker said.
Neil Bush had helped raise $115,000 for the district's philanthropic fund from donors who insisted the money be spent on his company's software.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-03-24-bush-earmark_x.htm   (363 words)

  
 Barbara Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barbara Pierce Bush (born June 8, 1925) is the wife of the 41st President of the United States, George H. Bush, and was First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
Barbara Pierce was the third child of the former Pauline Robinson (1896-1949) and her husband, Marvin Pierce (1893-1969), who later became president of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's magazines Redbook and McCall's.
In September 1990, Barbara Bush said in an interview for People Magazine that the then-brand new TV show The Simpsons was the dumbest thing she had ever seen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Bush   (1035 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bush’s gowns, her wedding dress and a reproduction of her inaugural gown are included in the exhibit.
The first is a sixteen minute film narrated by Barbara Bush that tells the story of her life, the second is a captioned video presentation of slides Mrs.
Bush photographed during her stay in China and the third is a collection of images from the vice-presidential era also narrated by Mrs.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /pastexhibits/barbara_bush.php   (367 words)

  
 Barbara Bush | Scholastic.com
Barbara Bush has lived a life that reflects her husband's varied career in business and public service, her active role as mother and grandmother, and her energetic commitment to a wide range of social issues.
Bush is honorary chairperson of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, and organization whose mission is to support the development of family literacy programs, break the intergenerational cycle of illiteracy, and establish literacy as a value in every family in America.
Bush corresponded with thousands of children and adult learners, professionals, and parents who wanted to share goals and achievements with her.
content.scholastic.com /browse/article.jsp?id=4922   (532 words)

  
 Barbara Bush
She was sent to an exclusive boarding school in South Carolina, and met her future husband, George H.W. Bush, during Christmas vacation, when she attended a dance at his school, about 200 miles from her home.
Mrs Bush has said that she feels she mishandled her daughter's death -- she never told the girl's older brother and closest playmate, then-seven-year-old George W. Bush, that his sister was sick, and forbade him to attend the funeral.
Mrs Bush is a distant cousin of President Franklin Pierce, and, with Abigail Adams, she is one of only two women in U.S. history both married to and mother of American Presidents.
www.nndb.com /people/007/000022938   (562 words)

  
 First Ladies: Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush enjoyed enormous popularity both as the Vice-President's wife and as First Lady.
Bush made public service work for the benefit of children her priority.
Bush finally has the time to enjoy her children and grandchildren as a private citizen.
www.multied.com /bio/ladies/bush.html   (229 words)

  
 CNN.com - Barbara Bush calls Democrat line-up a 'sorry group' - Oct. 20, 2003
Former first lady Barbara Bush and mother of President Bush described Democrats trying to unseat her son in the White House as a "sorry group" of politicians.
Fiercely proud of their son's achievements, former President Bush said his wife treated the president like any other member of the family, recently telling him after a run to get his feet off the table in their bedroom.
Bush said the current president frequently declined to do what she said.
cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/elec04.prez.barbara.bush.ap   (289 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Former President Bush and Former First Lady Barbara Bush on Promoting Family Literacy Programs - Greta ...
BUSH: And I think you worry about it because people wonder, "Well, we're going to subpoena the e-mail records and we're going to — you know you got to prove that you were telling the truth and all this stuff." I mean it's gotten so adversarial that it's ugly.
BUSH: No, half of the money raised tonight goes to the Texas Literacy Fund, Family Literacy Fund and actually Laura is the — she very kindly became the honorary chairman and stayed the honorary chairman all through the last, it seems to me thousand years, because we raise most of the money in Texas.
BUSH: My dream would be truthfully, and not the Barbara Bush Foundation, but my dream would be like Florida, if every state would have their own literacy foundation run by, I don't know who, Virginia has a very good one run by a former governor's wife.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,229380,00.html   (2313 words)

  
 Alex Jones Presents Infowars.com to Fight the New World Order -- Barbara Bush Threatens Presidential Candidates
LARRY KING, CNN HOST: Tonight, Barbara Bush, the former first lady and current president's mother, her first live TV interview for her new memoir, "Reflections: Life After the White House." She's here for the hour, in-depth and personal.
We're at the beautiful Houstonian Hotel in Houston, Texas, the home for six months of the year for Barbara Bush and her husband, the former President George Bush.
BUSH: Well, you know, mothers are allowed to be proud of their sons.
www.infowars.com /print/misc/barb_threat.htm   (709 words)

  
 Barbara Bush - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Barbara Bush - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Bush, Barbara Pierce, born in 1925, first lady of the United States (1989-93).
Barbara Pierce Bush was born in Rye, New York, a great-great-great...
encarta.msn.com /Barbara_Bush.html   (48 words)

  
 Barbara Bush eBooks - Pamela Kilian - Visit eBookMall Today!
Her tragedies: The death from leukemia of Robin Bush at age three turned Barbara's hair white, and she suffered heavily when son Neil was under fire in the savings and loan scandal.
The attacks on her son, George W. Bush's character in the 2000 presendential campaign, and the ensuing months of debate after the election tore at her heart.
Pamela Kilian tells Barbara's life story, from her protected childhood, to her early marriage and motherhood, to her adventures as a young wife, to her journey to the White House and beyond.
www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/barbara-bush-kilian-ebooks.htm   (589 words)

  
 Barbara Bush - History Celebrities
Barbara Pierce was born in Rye, New York, the daughter of Marvin and Pauline Robinson Pierce.
In 1942, she had met George Bush at a Christmas dance, and they describe their relationship as "love at first sight." George at this time was in the Navy, and as a result of meeting her, named his bomber plane "Barbara" after her.
Barbara has worked very hard for the promotion of adult literacy, as her son Neil is suffering from dyslexia.
www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1089.html   (486 words)

  
 The First Twins: Jenna Bush and Barbara Bush
Barbara's boyfriend, Jay Blout, was voted one of Yale's 50 Most Beautiful in the school's paper, The Rumpus.
Bush told him that two days before the scheduled execution, his daughter Jenna dropped her fork dramatically on her plate at dinner and announced that she was against the death penalty.
George W. Bush's twin teen-age daughters, Jenna and Barbara, so treasure their privacy that their reluctance to become public figures was at the forefront of family deliberations over whether Bush should embark on a race for the presidency.
www.thefirsttwins.com   (13150 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Barbara Bush: A Memoir: Books: Barbara Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Barbara Bush: A Memoir is an insightful peek into the former First Lady's life, from childhood to the White House.
Bush also includes brief histories, as well as her thoughts, of people she's met: ambassadors, prime ministers, dictators, and a seemingly never-ending list of major figures in every industry.
Bush is an avid reader and a great lover of books so she'll sometimes mention some of the books she's read at certain points in her life and whether she liked them.
www.amazon.com /Barbara-Bush-Memoir/dp/0312956649   (1614 words)

  
 Barbara Bush as a Role Model - Former First Lady
As a Role Model:Barbara Bush was always an asset to her husband during his campaigns for public office.
The mission of her foundation is to support the development of family literacy programs, to break the intergenerational cycle of illiteracy, and establish literacy as a value in every American family.
Barbara Bush has been dedicated to her belief that everyone should know how to read.
www.rolemodel.net /barbarabush.cfm   (755 words)

  
 BARBARA BUSH
Live on the Larry King show on CNN, Barbara Bush, the mother of the President threatened the Democratic candidates with death if they criticized the president or her husband or any of her children.
BUSH: Well, you know, mothers are allowed to be proud of their sons.
BUSH: Well, first of all, you have to watch the father of the president suffer.
www.gnn.tv /forum/thread.php?id=4460   (438 words)

  
 Bush Daughter Has Purse Stolen, Barbara Bush Had Purse And Cell Phone Taken During Trip To Argentina - CBS News
(CBS/AP) Barbara Bush, one of President Bush's 24-year-old twin daughters, had her purse stolen last weekend while she was being guarded by the Secret Service during a visit to Argentina, CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller has learned.
Barbara Bush's purse and cell phone were taken while she was dining in a Buenos Aires restaurant.
Bush's daughters had her purse taken Sunday afternoon in the popular tourist district of San Telmo.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/11/21/politics/main2204443.shtml   (641 words)

  
 Barbara Bush - Wonkette
Barbara made headlines last week when she was robbed in a Buenos Aires restaurant; somebody apparently made off with her purse and cell phone.
Jenna travels to Paraguay to grease the wheels for her father’s eventual flea from justice, Barbara is keeping true to the other half of the family tradition: fucking up grandly until you’re forty or so.
Bush twins unemployment index goes to zero at the same time the Bush twins in DC index goes to zero.
www.wonkette.com /politics/barbara%20bush   (2010 words)

  
 Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor
Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.
At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities.
Barbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
www.commondreams.org /views05/0907-28.htm   (461 words)

  
 Harris County Public Library - Branch Information - Barbara Bush @ Cypress Creek
Barbara Bush Library is located on Cypresswood Dr. From I-45 N take the Kuykendahl-Rankin Road exit.
The Barbara Bush Library opened to the public on December 18, 2002.
Bush has visited the library several times to read stories to the children.
www.hcpl.lib.tx.us /branchinfo/cc/ccinfo.htm   (430 words)

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