Schools are essential to rebuilding the Gulf Coast after last year's hurricanes, and libraries are an essential part of schools, first lady Laura Bush told about 1,000 librarians, students and others Monday.
Early to bed, early to rise. That's a typical day at the White House, says Laura Bush.
Mexico's current first lady became tabloid fodder after insisting on a very untraditional political role alongside her husband, President Vicente Fox. The women most likely to replace her say they want a much lower profile — more like Laura Bush's role in the United States.
The United States will work with nations in the Middle East to help spread awareness and research about the growing problem of breast cancer in a region where discussing it can be a cultural taboo, first lady Laura Bush said Monday.
First lady Laura Bush told a major AIDS conference Friday that more people must understand how the deadly virus is transmitted, and she called on countries to improve literacy so their citizens can make better choices.
This year's college graduates are faced with problems that lie beyond the nation's borders, because disasters elsewhere can't be ignored in a world so interconnected, first lady Laura Bush said Saturday.
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Guests at the White House dinner given by President Bush and first lady Laura Bush for Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his wife, Janette Howard:
Some election-year advice to Republicans from a high-ranking source who has the president's ear: Don't use a proposed constitutional amendment against gay marriage as a campaign tool.
As a new hurricane season nears, the Gulf Coast states are rebuilding "brick by brick, house by house," first lady Laura Bush told the Red Cross Friday.
First lady Laura Bush challenged the graduating class at Vanderbilt University to participate in Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts, saying helping others can bring happiness.
First lady Laura Bush challenged the graduating class at Vanderbilt University to participate in Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts, saying helping others can bring happiness.
Laura Bush has a knack for making it known when she doesn't agree with her husband. But on the subject of belting out "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Spanish, it's not clear whether the first lady is in President Bush's camp or not.
School libraries wiped out by hurricanes Katrina and Rita are getting grants worth $500,000 to help them rebuild, along with a rare magazine collection, first lady Laura Bush and media executives announced Wednesday.
First lady Laura Bush visited this bucolic town in the Berkshire hills Monday to mark the homecoming of Edith Wharton's personal book collection to the author's estate known as The Mount.
Laura Bush announced an initiative Monday to combat global illiteracy, saying that more than 800 million people around the world can't read.
Laura Bush, a reserved former librarian who only reluctantly warmed to politicking, said often and somewhat nostalgically in 2004 that her husband's re-election bid was the couple's last campaign.
There's something wrong here. Laura Bush is often seen reading aloud to children. But the children are all wearing pajamas. When she asks why, an angel tells the first lady that the children are all dead, victims of the war in Iraq.
First lady Laura Bush gave her imprimatur to a best-selling book about family, life and children in Afghanistan, as the author of "The Kite Runner" described the return to his war-ravaged country after a 27-year absence.
Laura Bush said Tuesday the United States is ready to have a woman president — preferably a Republican.
First lady Laura Bush was greeted on her debut trip to India first with stately pomp and circumstance, then by children's puppets.
Will President Bush go to war-rattled Afghanistan when he visits India and Pakistan this week? The White House isn't saying, but there's a lot of speculation here and in South Asia that he will. Both Vice President Dick Cheney and Laura Bush have visited Afghanistan.
Laura Bush said Saturday that Hillary Rodham Clinton's criticism of her husband's administration was "out of bounds," arguing that the former first lady should show some empathy for the current White House occupants.
Reunited at last in death, Coretta Scott King was laid to rest beside the tomb of her husband after a stirring funeral with 10,000 mourners that was both lyrical and mournful, and at times political.
First lady Laura Bush's guests at her husband's annual address to Congress certainly were diverse. One, in fact, wasn't even human.