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  Laura Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laura Bush was born Laura Lane Welch in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold Bruce Welch (1912–1995) and Jenna Louise Hawkins (born 1919) and her family were conservative Democrats, as was almost everyone else in Texas at that time.
Bush earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1968 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
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   (1328 words)

  
 Laura Bush -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laura Lane Welch was born in (The interior part of a country) Midland, (The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico) Texas, the only child of Harold Bruce Welch (1912-1995) and Jenna Louise Hawkins (1919-).
Welch failed to stop the (4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine) automobile she was driving at a (additional info and facts about stop sign) stop sign and struck and killed her former boyfriend Michael Douglas.
Laura became the first lady of Texas when her husband George was elected as the (additional info and facts about Governor of Texas) Governor of Texas and served as first lady of that state from 1995 to 2000.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/laura_bush.htm   (815 words)

  
 George W. Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bush took a hard line on capital punishment and received much criticism from advocates who wanted to abolish the death penalty and also those who argued that there were tangible imperfections in the Texas legal system that required a more cautious approach to carrying out the death penalty.
Bush's imposition of a tariff on imported steel and on Canadian softwood lumber was controversial in light of his advocacy of free market policies in other areas, and attracted criticism both from his fellow conservatives and from nations affected.
Bush is the first Republican president to have appointed an openly gay man to serve in his administration [36] (Scott Evertz as director of the Office of National AIDS Policy), and the first president to see one such appointment, that of openly gay Ambassador to Romania Michael E. Guest, receive Congressional confirmation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_W._Bush   (7688 words)

  
 CNN Programs - People in the News
Laura, raised a Democrat, was now forever tied to a Republican dynasty with her new husband, the grandson of a senator and the son of an ambassador who would soon become vice president, then president of the United States.
Laura was born in Midland, Texas, in 1946 to Harold and Jenna Welch.
Laura went to school with her future husband for a short time when they were children in Midland, where he spent most of his formative years.
www.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/people/bush/profile.html   (1262 words)

  
 Laura Bush
Laura Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of President George W. Bush and serves as First Lady of the United States.
Laura Welch was born in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold and Jenna Welch.
She met George W. Bush in 1977 at the home of mutual friends and married him in November of that year.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/la/laura_bush.html   (591 words)

  
 The book on Laura Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bush seems the "traditional" political wife who stays largely in the background, except when it comes to her passion for literature and her campaign for literacy.
Laura Welch was an only child, with a wide circle of friends in a town where isolation and economic peril combined to make friendship a lifeline for youngsters who, by and large, shipped in and out on waves of oil wealth.
Laura Bush's husband might or might not be president-elect, but he was still governor of Texas and she was still in charge of the program that, by year's end, would have raised money for every public library in Texas.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04102/299341.stm   (2454 words)

  
 Laura Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laura Welch Bush, driving east on Farm Road 868, was approaching the only highway in town on a clear night with a bright moon.
Laura Bush knew her boyfriend and she knew his car--the headlights are low slung and a full 9-inches narrower than any other car on the road.
Laura Lie #3: Laura Bush said that her boyfriend was riding in an open jeep.
www.childbutcher.com /laura_bush.htm   (554 words)

  
 UNESCO - Laura Welch Bush as an Education Advocate
Laura Bush is dedicated to advancing education in the United States and worldwide.
Bush is the only first lady in United States history to record a full presidential radio address, speaking out on the plight of women and children living under the Taliban.
Bush is the Honorary Chair of the Roundtable for the National Children’s Hospital of Iraq.
portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php-URL_ID=24182&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (536 words)

  
 Laura Bush - First Lady Biography & Information - WHITEHOUSE.ORG
George W. Bush ("Laura"), it is appropriate on countless levels to defer to the superior psychophysical summary offered by her husband, President George W. Bush: "She doesn't try to steal the limelight." Indeed, Mrs.
Bush is in many ways most noteworthy for her intensely admirable inclination to allow her husband to methodically overshadow each and every element of her unfortunately female being.
Bush's hobbies include reading, saying she reads, honoring and obeying her husband, playing the role of a nurturing and supportive matriarch for her spirited twin daughters, keeping a detailed birding journal, not aspiring to noteworthy achievements independent of her husband's, and self-administered sassafras tea colonics.
www.whitehouse.org /administration/laura.asp   (748 words)

  
 All About Laura Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laura Lane Welch was born in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold Bruce Welch (1912-1995) and Jenna Louise Hawkins (1919-).
Laura grew up in Midland, and she attended the same high school as Tommy Franks, where she was a popular student.
Welch failed to stop the automobile she was driving at a stop sign and struck and killed her former boyfriend Michael Douglas.
www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0505/news/laura_bush.html   (805 words)

  
 ABC News: Laura Welch Bush: The Next First Lady
Bush is a native Texan, born in Midland.
Laura Welch met George W. at a dinner at the home of their mutual Midland friends in the summer of 1977.
Laura’s background as a teacher and her lifelong passion for reading have been the motivating forces behind her education advocacy for all Texans.
abcnews.go.com /Politics/story?id=121983&page=1   (354 words)

  
 Laura Welch Bush - First Lady of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bush launched an early childhood development initiative in 1998 to help parents and caregivers prepare infants and young children for learning and reading when they enter school.
Bush also serves on several boards, including the University of Texas Graduate School of Library and Information Science Foundation Advisory Council and the national Reading is Fundamental Advisory Council.
She and George W. Bush were married in Midland in 1977, and they are the proud parents of twin girls, Barbara and Jenna, who were born in 1981 and are named after their grandmothers.
www.usmission.ch /BIOS/laurabush.htm   (318 words)

  
 The First Ladies of the United States - Laura Welch 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.usemb.se /usflag/presidents/lb43.html   (663 words)

  
 Laura Welch Bush --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
When George W. Bush was elected the 43rd president of the United States, his wife, Laura Welch Bush, noted that she was already familiar with the White House due to frequent visits there during the presidency of her father-in-law, George Bush.
Bush was the oldest of six children of George Bush, who served as 41st president of the United States (1989–93), and Barbara Bush.
The Bush victory was attributed to hard-hitting television commercials that focused on prison furloughs, harbor pollution,...
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9351371   (776 words)

  
 Laura Welch Bush
Laura Welch Bush was born in Midland, Texas.
In 1968 Laura Welch Bush earned a bachelor of science degree in education from Southern Methodist University.
Laura Welch Bush joined with the Library of Congress to launch the first National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. and hosts a series, “White House Salute to America's Authors,” to celebrate our country's great literary works.
www.twu.edu /firstladies/welch_bush.htm   (241 words)

  
 Laura Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laura Welch was born in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold and Jenny Welch.
The Bushes have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, currently in college.
On November 6, 1963, Laura Welch (age 17) ran a stop sign in Midland while driving a Chevrolet sedan.
www.peacelink.de /index.php?title=Laura_Welch_Bush&redirect=no   (299 words)

  
 Astrology Software for Research - Laura Bush - astrology chart
When their twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara were born, Laura was admitted to the hospital seven weeks before her due-date because of toxemia.
Bush is an effective campaigner for her husband and inspires respect even from her husband's detractors.
In both Bush campaigns for the Presidency, she is widely seen as an asset.
www.astrodatabank.com /NM/BushLaura.htm   (1006 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laura Welch Bush, wife of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, is well known in Texas for her efforts to improve education and youth literacy.
Laura Welch's entry into the high-profile Bush family - easily as competitive and frenetic as the Kennedy clan - was not seamless.
One thing Laura Bush and her husband agree upon - the centerpiece of his six years as governor - is the importance of effective education.
www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/e2426.htm   (1187 words)

  
 Gale Schools - Women's History Month - Biographies - Laura Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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   (948 words)

  
 Astrology: Laura Bush - StarIQ.com
Laura Welch Bush was born on November 4, 1946 in Midland, Texas.
Though Laura Bush is sweet and demure, she is able to hold her own in the competitive Bush family.
For Laura, those lessons came at the tender age of seventeen, when she went through a stop sign and hit a car driven by a school friend, who died as a result.
www.stariq.com /pagetemplate/article.asp?PageID=2030   (904 words)

  
 Republican National Convention Blog NYC 2004: Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch was born an only child to Harold [a residential home contractor] and Jenna [the family business'bookkeeper] Welch [loyal Democrats] on November 4, 1946 in Midland Texas.
At age 17, Laura Welch was in a car accident which resulted in the death of her friend and popular high school athlete Michael Dutton Douglas.
Laura and her future husband George W Bush were both raised in Midland Texas and were 7th graders at the same junior high school [though they did not know each other at the time].
rncnyc2004.blogspot.com /2004/08/laura-bush.html   (1148 words)

  
 Laura Welch Bush
Laura Welch was born on November 4, 1946, in Midland, Texas.
Bush broadcast an entire radio address, the first First Lady ever to do so, about the unfair treatment of women and children in Afghanistan.
Today Laura Bush continues to speak out on issues that are important to the lives of people in the United States and around the world.
www.harcourtschool.com /activity/biographies/bushlw   (367 words)

  
 Laura Welch Bush: Shy no more   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
HOUSTON - Laura Bush is talking to a few reporters here after her rousing keynote address to the Texas state Republican convention on behalf of her husband the governor, who is campaigning elsewhere for president.
Laura Welch Bush, wife of Texas governor George W. Bush, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is well known in Texas for her efforts to improve education and youth literacy.
For much of her life, Laura Welch was ''so uninterested in politics.'' Even though they lived for a time at different ends of the same apartment complex, she turned down a couple of suggested dates with George W. Bush.
www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/e2147.htm   (1616 words)

  
 Laura Welch Bush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laura Welch Bush, wife of presidential nominee, Gov. George W. Bush, was born in Midland, Texas.
Bush received her bachelor's degree in education from Southern Methodist University and a master's degree in library science from the University of Texas at Austin.
In 1977, she married George W. Bush and in 1981 the Bush's twin daughters Barbara and Jenna were born.
www.c-span.org /campaign2000/biography/laurabush.html   (117 words)

  
 Laura Bush, Out of the Garden and Into the Fray (washingtonpost.com)
Before her first solo rally of what she has come to call, a little wistfully, "our last campaign," Laura Bush got a warm-up Tuesday from the Palo Verde High School Choir, with dancing singers changing costumes so frequently they seemed to be hoping "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul secretly watches C-SPAN.
Laura Welch Bush is no Teresa Heinz Kerry or Hillary Rodham Clinton, and to listen to this audience, that is exactly what people love about her.
Bush's first outing came as a result of this pasting in the polls.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A38317-2004May19.html   (679 words)

  
 Laura Welch Bush - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Laura Welch Bush is First Lady and wife of George Walker Bush.
David Corn wrote that at the "posh" White House Correspondents' Dinner held April 30, 2005, Laura Bush followed her husband to the podium, "told her husband to sit down, and...
And moments later--after referring to Barbara Bush as Don Corleone and joking about her husband's aversion to reading--she made fun of her number-one cowboy for knowing little of the ways of ranch life when they bought the spread in Crawford, Texas.
www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Laura_Welch_Bush   (549 words)

  
 Bush, Laura Welch
Laura Welch was the only child of Harold Welch, a home builder, and Jenna Hawkins Welch.
After George was elected governor of Texas in 1994, Laura raised her profile, working to improve literacy and raising funds for public libraries.
In a more traditional vein, she also organized a national book fair featuring American authors, started the Laura Bush Foundation to raise funds for libraries, and won praise for her efforts to comfort victims of the September 11 attacks of 2001.
www.britannica.com /presidentsWebapp/article.do?articleID=9345365   (429 words)

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