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  First Lady's Biography
Bush is listening to the concerns of young people, parents, and community leaders throughout the country and drawing attention to programs that help children avoid risky behaviors like drug and alcohol use, early sexual activity, and violence.
Laura Bush is passionate about the importance and pleasures of reading, and she joined with the Library of Congress to launch the first National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., in September 2001.
Laura Bush was born on November 4, 1946, in Midland, Texas, to Harold and Jenna Welch.
www.whitehouse.gov /firstlady/flbio.html   (573 words)

  
  Laura Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laura Bush is seen Thursday evening, March 23, 2006 in the Blue Room of the White House, set a Social Dinner hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs.
Laura Bush is credited with influencing the maturation of her husband in the 1980s and with being one of the factors in his decision to stop drinking alcohol in 1986.
Laura Bush became the First Lady of Texas when her husband was elected as the Governor of Texas and served as first lady of that state from 1995 to 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laura_Bush   (1935 words)

  
 Laura Bush - Uncyclopedia
Laura OMGWTF Bush (May 20, 1898 - present), is a serial killer who struck first an x-boyfried in Texas she is the current wife of George W.T.F Bush, who served from 1997 until wake me up when it's over.
Laura Bush is the first first lady in American history known to suffer from OCD and never goes anywhere without a bottle of hand sanitizer and a can of disinfectant.
Laura's role as First Lady has been to indirectly preside over the United States by supporting everything her husband says and does, even if it means smiling and nodding when he says things like "nucular" or laughs too long at his own wisecracks.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Laura_Bush   (793 words)

  
 Laura Bush's Mission Accomplished - New York Times
Bush was funny, but the mere sight of her "interrupting" her husband in an obviously scripted routine prompted a ballroom full of reporters to leap to their feet and erupt in a roar of sycophancy like partisan hacks at a political convention.
Bush's proclaimed affection for the hit TV show "Desperate Housewives," was fiction; her press secretary told The New York Times's Elisabeth Bumiller that the first lady had yet to watch it.
Bush's act was a harmless piece of burlesque, but it paid political dividends, upstaging the ho-hum presidential news conference of two days earlier in which few of the same reporters successfully challenged administration spin on Social Security and other matters.
www.nytimes.com /2005/05/08/opinion/08rich.html?ex=1273204800&en=228c3f27e6bd1e5d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (736 words)

  
 Does Laura Bush Deserve a Pass?
Bush is for "education," then she surely decided to slip the constraints of teaching on this Mother's Day.
Bush is traveling with her husband, but I'd like to remind her that most of George W. Bush's audiences are hand picked.
Bush complaining that the president's numbers weren't blasted across the front page when they were high was a main talking point in the interviews.
www.taylormarsh.com /archives_view.php?id=2362   (1264 words)

  
 Gale Schools - Women's History Month - Biographies - Laura Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When Laura W. Bush married in 1977, it was only after extracting a pledge from her fiancé that she would never be asked to make a political speech on his behalf.
Bush and her future husband both grew up in Midland, and even spent seventh grade at the same junior high school.
But a calamity marred Bush's idyllic teen years: at the age of 17, she ran a stop sign in her car and collided with another; one of the other car's occupants, a boy who was a friend of hers, was killed.
www.galeschools.com /womens_history/bio/bush_l.htm   (939 words)

  
 snopes.com: Laura Bush Car Accident
I heard at a party last Saturday that Laura Bush, at age 17, ran a stop sign and crashed into another car, killing a 17-year-old classmate.
So 17-year-old Laura Welch did cause the death of a friend by running a stop sign, but to see more in the story than that is to surrender oneself up to baseless imaginings.
According to George and Laura: Portrait of an American Marriage, Laura Welch did not find out that the driver of the other vehicle had died at the scene until later when she and her girlfriend were being treated at the hospital.
www.snopes.com /politics/bush/laura.asp   (1309 words)

  
 CNN.com - Laura Bush's abortion comments 'personal views,' Fleischer says - January 19, 2001
Bush's position on abortion is that there should be education on issues, such as abstinence and responsible behavior, to reduce the number of abortions, and only when pressed, did she answer the question on the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling.
Bush said she intends to use her position as first lady to put a focus on education.
Bush said she never imagined when she married Bush that he would rise to the highest position in the land.
archives.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/19/laurabush.abortion.02   (693 words)

  
 Laura Bush Trivia - Laura Bush Facts - Laura Bush Notes
Laura and her husband, President George W. Bush, went to the same high school but did not know each other until long after graduation.
Bush is a supporter of the Red Dress Project, which is a campaign to raise awareness of heart disease among women.
Laura Bush supports the Reach Out And Read Program, which is a non-profit organization, started in 1989 by a group of pediatricians from the Boston Medical Center.
www.tv.com /laura-bush/person/289220/trivia.html   (1086 words)

  
 Newsvine - laura-bush
First lady Laura Bush, an increasingly prominent voice on matters at home and abroad, says the difference lately is not her policy role in the White House but rather the attention she gets for it.
First lady Laura Bush had a skin cancer tumor removed from her right shin in early November but decided it was a private matter and did not reveal it publicly.
First Lady Laura Bush revealed recently that, while she believes that abstinence education is an important component of HIV prevention efforts, she would be supportive of waiving the earmark mandating that 33 percent of US prevention funds be spent of abstinence-only programs.
www.newsvine.com /laura-bush   (1959 words)

  
 Laura Bush rises to occasion at Roskam benefit
And yet here was Laura Bush on Monday, in west suburban Addison, behind a lectern overlooking Republicans and the remains of a chicken lunch, to help raise money for congressional candidate Peter Roskam.
Laura Bush's achievement is all the more impressive if you stop to consider how impossible her job is. Wear the wrong color inaugural gown, spend too much redecorating the White House, or give the wrong opinion, and you will hear about it from the American people.
Bush didn't stop to answer questions from the media -- she had another stop to make in St. Louis that day -- but did allow herself to be mauled by paying Republicans while a recording of a marching band played.
www.suntimes.com /output/elect/cst-nws-laura15.html   (569 words)

  
 MPR: Laura Bush woos female business owners
Laura Bush said her husband's policies are strengthening the nation's small businesses.
Laura Bush said small businesses are at the heart of the nation's economy.
Bush said female business owners are increasing in their numbers across the country, and they too have seen the benefit of her husband's policies.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2004/08/10_baxtera_laurabush   (848 words)

  
 American President
Laura Welch Bush was reluctant to subject her family to the rigors, criticism, and press intrusion of a presidential campaign.
Like Barbara Bush, her special cause is the promotion of reading and literacy, a mission she took on as first lady of Texas.
Laura Bush realizes that as First Lady, she has a unique "forum" and that "the time is now." But for the nonpolitical Laura Bush, it is "time" to promote awareness only of social causes.
www.americanpresident.org /history/bushgeorgew/bushIIfirstlady   (403 words)

  
 First Lady Laura Bush
Bush began by stepping to the podium and interrupting her husband who was speaking.
Bush performance: "She was successful in disabusing any thoughts that she's a Christian fundamentalist extremist." Well, yes.
Bush has demonstrated is that the status of her being First Lady is not a pretty one.
www.covenantnews.com /peroutka050504.htm   (665 words)

  
 Laura Bush stumps for Kyl
First lady Laura Bush on Friday urged a standing-room-only crowd in Scottsdale to re-elect Republican Sen. Jon Kyl this fall, calling him a fighter for families, tax cuts and the military.
Laura Bush was the latest GOP star to help fuel Kyl's campaign war chest, which has received financial boosts in recent months from visits by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Laura Bush seemed just as comfortable with the kids in Guadalupe as she did at a podium at the Republican fund-raiser.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0617laurabush0617.html   (555 words)

  
 CJOnline.com : In-Depth : Laura Bush
Laura Bush developed a love of reading and learning during her primary and secondary school years.
Bush served as a member of the Friends of Dallas Public Library Board and Executive Committee and a Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) volunteer and library liaison at Preston Hollow Elementary School, where her children attended school.
As the nation's first lady, Laura Bush is keenly aware of the opportunity she has to share her love of reading with Americans, especially young children.
www.cjonline.com /indepth/laurabush/stories/010802_lau_lifestory.shtml   (816 words)

  
 CNN.com - Laura Bush: Not 'traditional first lady' - Feb. 7, 2004
Laura Bush objects to the idea that she is viewed as a 1950s-era first lady and says she supported the decision of Howard Dean's wife to stay out of the public eye during Dean's presidential campaign.
Laura Bush, who has promoted literacy and women's health as first lady, appears frequently in public and does extensive fund-raising for her husband.
She also disputed the president's statement that he gets news from his aides and not from newspapers, saying the two have read the papers together for years and that what her husband meant was that he did not read columnists he disagrees with or every section of every paper.
edition.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/07/laura.bush.ap/index.html   (436 words)

  
 Laura Bush: 1963, ran stop sign & killed boyfriend [Free Republic]
Bush did say in March, when asked at a campaign stop about the crash, ``I know this as an adult, and even more as a parent, it was crushing...
Laura Bush and her passenger, Judy Dykes, also 17, were taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries, according to an accident account printed at the time in the Midland Reporter-Telegram.
Bush was devastated by this event, and did not marry until sometime in her 30's as I recall.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3910b26e685a.htm   (3339 words)

  
 Laura Bush: I Never Felt Bad, CBS News Exclusive: First Lady Says Revealing Her Surgery For Minor Skin Cancer Didn't ...
First lady Laura Bush suffered no ill effects from the cancerous growth on her leg and that is why it was never revealed to the public, she told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer in an exclusive interview.
Bush had a squamous cell carcinoma removed from her right shin in early November, the White House acknowledged Monday night after a bandage on Mrs.
Bush was not forthcoming about the squamous cell carcinoma was that, unlike the president, she considers herself a private citizen.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/12/21/earlyshow/main2287436.shtml   (777 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Laura Bush criticizes Hillary Clinton's 'plantation' remark
Bush, who said her next trip likely will be to New Orleans to visit schools damaged in the hurricane, also reacted to a comment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin that stirred controversy.
Bush drove to the dusty outskirts of Abuja to visit a small AIDS clinic where a young woman told her of how drugs helped her escape death from the disease.
Bush visited St. Mary's Hospital, where she stood next to four cartons of anti-retroviral drugs –– enough to treat 500 people over the next year.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20060118-1319-laurabush-nigeria.html   (577 words)

  
 Laura Bush condemns junta's response to storm - The Boston Globe
Appearing at a White House news conference, Laura Bush said the military junta in Burma is preventing the United States and other nations from providing help after Tropical Cyclone Nargis, and also alleged that the country's rulers purposely declined to warn people of the impending danger.
Laura Bush told reporters that her deep interest in Burma was sparked by reading the works of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest and has spent 12 of the last 18 years in some form of confinement.
Bush said the United States was preparing to offer "substantial" assistance, but officials have not settled on an amount.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2008/05/06/mrs_bush_raps_junta_on_storm_response   (501 words)

  
 VDARE.com: 03/06/04 - Butter Won’t Melt In Laura Bush’s Mouth. So Why Do Borders?
Bush as the folksy teacher/librarian whose life is dedicated to making sure children can read and that heart disease will be cured—sorry, no sale!
Bush concluded that, “it's a human rights issue and a way to address what is a huge inequity in the United States—and that is illegal workers who are here and don't really have any rights.”
President Bush has inexplicably chosen to squander the precious little political capital he has on this unrequited relationship with Fox.
www.vdare.com /guzzardi/laura_bush.htm   (1112 words)

  
 ALA | ALA honors Mrs. Laura Bush for Service to Libraries
Laura Bush for her years of support to America's libraries and librarians at the Martin Luther King Jr.
Bush has been a tireless supporter of libraries and library workers during her tenure in the White House," said Carol Brey-Casiano, president of the American Library Association and director of the El Paso Public Library in El Paso, Texas.
Bush was a guiding force behind "Recruitment of Librarians for the 21st Century," legislation designed to help attract and retain librarians.
www.ala.org /Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=91719   (219 words)

  
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www.spiaggenude.com /laura_freddi_foto.html   (1516 words)

  
 Laura Bush: The Accidental Patroness
Bush has decided that as long as she and her husband are occupying the White House, she can make use of their great new home by holding all sorts of parties, inviting all kinds of rich and well-respected people over to dinner.
Bush felt when she learned that a group of prominent poets she had invited to the White House for a special discussion dinner somehow got it into their heads that they would be able to freely discuss whatever ideas inspire them in their work.
Bush had invited them to visit the White House because of the recognition that their poems had received, but then attempted to tell them what kind of dinner conversation they would be allowed to have.
www.irregulartimes.com /laurabushpoet.html   (929 words)

  
 The Raw Story | Laura Bush on Iraq: 'No one suffers more than their president and I do'
Laura Bush said that not only was Gonzales "a very good friend" but that also "been a very good attorney general."
BUSH: We were able to eradicate malaria from much of the world, but it is still a very, very serious problem in Africa.
Bush about other challenges her husband is facing.
rawstory.com /news/2007/Laura_Bush_No_one_suffers_more_0425.html   (943 words)

  
 Text: Remarks by First Lady Laura Bush to the Republican National Convention (washingtonpost.com)
LAURA BUSH: Even then, he was always on time and he knew where he wanted to go.
LAURA BUSH: Carmella is living proof of what she told me. She said: "If you're determined and you want to work hard, you can do anything you want to.
LAURA BUSH: She told me that when people look at Iraq, what they don't see is that Iraq is a country of 25 million people, each with their own hope.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A50438-2004Aug31.html   (2186 words)

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