Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

Character has an abortion, describes sex with future president

(NEWSER) - In a new book unlikely to top the presidential reading list, author Curtis Sittenfeld fictionalizes the story of Laura Bush. Radar got a sneak peek and calls the novel "a masterful highbrow-lowbrow mash-up." The narrator is a librarian who falls in love with a future president upon seeing his crotch, undergoes an abortion, and has steamy sex with the brother of her high school sweetheart (who dies in a car crash she causes). More»

(NEWSER) - Laura Bush is not among those laughing along at her husband's recent shoe-dodging moves. "As a wife, I saw it as an assault, and that's what it was," she told USA Today. "So I didn't laugh it off." The first lady did, however, have an insight into how her husband managed to avoid getting plunked on the head: "He's very quick," she said. "He's such a natural athlete." More»

Bushes give Obamas grand tour and discuss raising White House kids

(NEWSER) - The first lady gave her successor some tips on White House living during the Obamas' visit yesterday, and the moms discussed the difficulties of raising daughters in the fishbowl environment, Reuters reports. Laura Bush, meeting Michelle Obama for the first time, showed her around every room of the Obamas' future home, paying particular attention to the likely bedrooms of Malia and Sasha. More»

Incoming first lady gets tour of new digs from Bush on Monday

(NEWSER) - At Laura Bush’s invitation, Michelle Obama will visit the White House on Monday, along with that guy who got elected Tuesday, to scope out the new residence, the Washington Post reports. The first-lady-to-be thanked Bush for helping her during the transition, after a campaign in which Obama hailed the first lady as a role model, and Bush defended Obama from criticism over various remarks. More»

First lady responds to claims made in Jodi Kantor's book

(NEWSER) - Michelle Obama says she hasn't read Jodi Kantor's new—and, at times, unflattering—book on the Obamas, but she does take offense to what's in it. Speaking to CBS co-anchor/long-time pal Gayle King, Obama explains that she has grown weary of people portraying her as "some kind of angry black woman." Kantor's book sets a scene in which tension (and, on one occasion, profanities) ran rampant between the first lady and Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs ; the New York Times reporter also depicts Michelle Obama as a somewhat unwilling participant who felt wary of and constrained by life in the White House. More»