First Lady Lauds Work to Repair Libraries

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.

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Bush Routine: Early to Bed, Early to Rise

Early to bed, early to rise. That's a typical day at the White House, says Laura Bush.

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Mexican Candidates' Wives Seek Low Profile

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.

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U.S., Nations Partner on Breast Cancer

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.

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Laura Bush Pushes AIDS Education

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.

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Mrs. Bush Tells Grads Not to Ignore World

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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Senate Spouses Auction Donated Gowns

Shopping for a special occasion — day or evening — and don't mind getting a secondhand piece that comes with an interesting back story? Or just curious about the fashion choices of women in the political elite?

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White House Dinner Guest List

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:

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Mrs. Bush: Don't Campaign on Marriage Ban

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.

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Laura Bush Reports to Red Cross on Gulf

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.

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Laura Bush Urges Graduates to Volunteer

First lady Laura Bush challenged the graduating class at Vanderbilt University to participate in Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts, saying helping others can bring happiness.

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Laura Bush Tells Graduates to Help Others

First lady Laura Bush challenged the graduating class at Vanderbilt University to participate in Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts, saying helping others can bring happiness.

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Anthem in Spanish Doesn't Faze First Lady

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.

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First Lady Heralds School Library Grants

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.

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Laura Bush Marks Wharton Books Homecoming

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.

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First Lady Announces Literacy Conference

Laura Bush announced an initiative Monday to combat global illiteracy, saying that more than 800 million people around the world can't read.

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Mrs. Bush Loses Her Reluctance to Campaign

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.

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Uncomfortable Images in Anthology

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.

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First Lady Toasts Afghan Author

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.

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Laura Bush Would Vote for Woman President

Laura Bush said Tuesday the United States is ready to have a woman president — preferably a Republican.

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Laura Bush Visits Indian 'Sesame Street'

First lady Laura Bush was greeted on her debut trip to India first with stately pomp and circumstance, then by children's puppets.

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Afghanistan Not Part of Bush's Itinerary

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.

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First Lady Dismisses Clinton's Criticism

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.

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Presidents Join Mourners at King Funeral

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.

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Bomb-Sniffing Dog Gets Good Seat at Speech

First lady Laura Bush's guests at her husband's annual address to Congress certainly were diverse. One, in fact, wasn't even human.

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Transcript of Larry King with President Bush, Laura Bush

LARRY KING, CNN HOST: Good evening. We're in the Blue Room of the White House. This is the first presidential interview ever done in this historic room and we're honored to have the president and first lady with us, President George W. Bush and Laura Bush.

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Laura vs. unhinged librarians

First Lady Laura Bush, who served as a public school teacher and librarian in the Houston, Dallas and Austin school systems, is scheduled to speak to the American Library Association's (ALA) annual conference in New Orleans next week.

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Op-Ed: The Rove Da Vinci Code

Among Sony's ingenious strategies was an elaborate Web site, The Da Vinci Dialogue, which gave many of the movie's prominent critics a platform to vent on the studio's dime.

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First lady weighs in on gay marriage

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VIDEO: Laura Bush Sets All-Time Record, Flip-Flops in Just 25 Seconds

Yesterday in an interview with CNN’s John King, First Lady Laura Bush said “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with singing [the national anthem] in Spanish.” King then reminded the First Lady that her husband said the national anthem should only be sung in English.

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First Lady Laura Bush has replaced her entire senior staff after 5 years in charge of East Wing

Well, at least one part of the White House is heeding calls for new blood.

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Op-Ed: Laura Bush, Savior?

Laura Bush to the rescue! That's the solution prescribed by Sally Quinn, grand dame of Georgetown and occasional contributor of essays to the Style section of The Washington Post.

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Laura Bush: U.S. ready for a woman president: Is Laura going to Run?

Is Laura Bush Setting herself up for a future run at the Presidency? Not likely, but It's interesting to speculate as she returns to the subject of a the US being ready to elect a women President.

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Laura Bush Hanging Out With Benedict XVI

What is Laura Bush wearing?

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Catholic World News : US First Lady to meet Pope

As far as I know, this might be one of the first major visits by a major US figure to see the new Pope. At any rate, I am going to be very interested to follow how this meeting goes.

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Rice Again Rules Out 2008 White House Run - Yahoo! News

"Not even a vote of confidence from Laura Bush can change Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's mind about running for president in 2008."

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I'd back Condi for the White House, says Laura Bush

Laura Bush has revealed for the first time whom she would like to see replacing her husband in the White House: Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State.

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CNN.com - Laura Bush: Rice in '08? - Jan 13, 2006

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