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  • July 2008

    • Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 9, 08 1:11 PM CDT

      Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

      Words like "smear" and "gossip" have flown around American Wife , the novel probing the secret life of Laura Bush, but the book itself is pretty harmless, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times . Kings and queens have always inspired art, Dowd notes, and Wife isn’t sensationalist—it’s a well-researched attempt to get inside a guarded but intriguing figure. More »

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      White House  • sex  • literature  • first lady  • Laura Bush  • book reviews  • Curtis Sittenfeld

    • 'Laura Bush' No Conservative in New Novel

      newser  |  Radar  |  Jul 7, 08 4:44 PM CDT

      'Laura Bush' No Conservative in New Novel

      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 »

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      sex  • literature  • abortion  • lesbians  • Laura Bush  • Curtis Sittenfeld

  • June 2008

    • Bush London Trip Sparks Clashes

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jun 16, 08 3:25 AM CDT

      Bush London Trip Sparks Clashes

      Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators clashed with London police as they protested President Bush's visit yesterday, reports the BBC. Protesters chanted "George Bush, terrorist!" but were kept out of the president's earshot as he arrived at 10 Downing Street. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Gordon Brown  • protests  • Queen Elizabeth II  • Laura Bush  • 10 Downing Street

    • First Lady Writes Home on Afghanistan

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 12, 08 1:34 PM CDT

      First Lady Writes Home on Afghanistan

      Laura Bush, attending an international fundraising conference for Afghanistan after visiting the war-torn country, documents the distance it's traveled in recovery and the challenges ahead in a Wall Street Journal column. Hailing “amazing progress,” the first lady writes of lowered infant mortality and increased access to health care and education. But, she warns, there's still “danger lurking in the Afghan hills.” More »

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      Afghanistan  • al-Qaeda  • Hamid Karzai  • Laura Bush

    • In Afghanistan, Laura Bush Urges Support

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jun 8, 08 1:31 PM CDT

      In Afghanistan, Laura Bush Urges Support

      During an unannounced visit to Kabul today, Laura Bush urged the international community not to pull support from Afghanistan, highlighting successes in reconstruction and improved women’s rights, Reuters reports. The first lady's visit came even as Afghan, US, and NATO forces fight to contain a Taliban guerilla war in which the group and its al-Qaeda allies have vowed to increase suicide bombings to deter international aid to the country. More »

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      Afghanistan  • al-Qaeda  • Taliban  • War on Terror  • NATO  • Kabul  • Laura Bush  • international aid

  • May 2008

    • Bush to Give Jenna Away in Twilight Wedding

      newser  |  Houston Chronicle  |  May 9, 08 9:55 AM CDT

      Bush to Give Jenna Away in Twilight Wedding

      President Bush boarded Air Force One yesterday to attend to some family business: giving away his daughter Jenna at her wedding at twilight tomorrow, near a lake on the family's Crawford, Texas, ranch. The First Daughter, who opted against a "stuffy" wedding at the White House, will be wearing Oscar de la Renta as she ties the knot with longtime boyfriend Henry Hager. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Texas  • wedding  • Laura Bush  • Jenna Bush  • Henry Hager

    • First Lady Steps Up for Cyclone Relief

      newser  |  CNN  |  May 5, 08 5:17 PM CDT

      First Lady Steps Up for Cyclone Relief

      First Lady Laura Bush took a rare turn in the spotlight today and pressed Burma to let a US disaster response team into the country, CNN reports. In a press conference, she also slammed the junta for its "failure to meet its people's basic needs" after a cyclone killed more than 10,000 people there. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • disaster  • cyclone  • aid  • Laura Bush

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  • January 2008

    • No White House Nups for Jenna

      newser  |  People  |  Jan 17, 08 3:02 PM CST

      No White House Nups for Jenna

      It turns out May 10 isn't a nice day for a White House wedding: Jenna Bush and fiancé Henry Hager will marry that day in Crawford, Texas, at the family's 1,600-acre ranch, quashing speculation the ceremony would be an in-the-spotlight DC affair. "It's going to be a small wedding," a source told People , who added that bridesmaids have already been selected. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Texas  • wedding  • Laura Bush  • Jenna Bush  • brides  • Henry Hager  • ceremony  • bridesmaids

  • October 2007

    • First Lady Pushes Saudis on Breast Cancer Awareness

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Oct 24, 07 2:38 PM CDT

      First Lady Pushes Saudis on Breast Cancer Awareness

      Laura Bush today swept into a country where breast cancer is such a taboo that it is often not prevented, treated, or publicly admitted—a high-profile woman trumpeting a pink-ribbon message where 70% of cases aren't reported until late stages. Though excellent care exists, many ignore "that disease" for fears ranging from dealing with male doctors to no one wanting to marry a patient's daughter. More »

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      Middle East  • Saudi Arabia  • breast cancer  • Laura Bush

    • First Lady Steps Up White House Role

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Oct 15, 07 12:00 PM CDT

      First Lady Steps Up White House Role

      Laura Bush has been amping up her public profile lately, becoming increasingly outspoken in the waning months of her husband's administration, the New York Times observes. She's been the administration's leading voice on Burma, calling UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, testifying before Congress and writing an op ed piece in the Wall Street Journal . This week she is flying to the Mideast on a breast-cancer-awareness mission. More »

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      first lady  • Laura Bush

    • First Lady to Junta: Free Burma

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Oct 10, 07 12:23 PM CDT

      First Lady to Junta: Free Burma

      The recent violent crackdown on peaceful protests in Burma have left the military regime friendless in the international community and reviled by its people, Laura Bush writes in the Wall Street Journal . The junta “must immediately stop their terror campaigns against their own people,” she writes, and then step down, making way for “a unified Burma governed by legitimate leaders.” More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • junta  • Aung San Suu Kyi  • Laura Bush

  • September 2007

    • First Lady Prods UN Head on Burma Policy

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Sep 6, 07 7:35 PM CDT

      First Lady Prods UN Head on Burma Policy

      As part of her ongoing campaign to raise awareness about strife in military-led Burma, Laura Bush called on the UN to condemn recent arrests of political dissidents. The first lady made her passion clear with a phone call to Secretary General Ban Ki Moon last week, in which she called the junta's arrests a "brutal crackdown," the Washington Post reports. More »

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      United Nations  • Burma  • Ban Ki-Moon  • Laura Bush  • international relations

  • August 2007

    • Laura Bush Will Skip APEC Trip to Australia

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Aug 27, 07 5:13 AM CDT

      Laura Bush Will Skip APEC Trip to Australia

      Laura Bush plans to sit out the president's trip to Australia early next month for the APEC summit, due to a pinched nerve. Washington Post blogger Mark Silva speculates that the First Lady's decision may presage other stops being added to the president's itinerary for the trip, which comes just before his upcoming report to Congress on progress in Iraq. More »

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      Australia  • Dick Cheney  • Kabul  • Islamabad  • Laura Bush  • APEC

    • Jenna Bush Engaged

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Aug 16, 07 1:00 PM CDT

      Jenna Bush Engaged

      Jenna Bush will beat her twin sister Barbara to the altar. The President's fair-haired daughter plans to wed Henry Hager, son of former Virginia Lieutenant Governor John Hager, and himself a former intern to outgoing Bush aide Karl Rove. The couple, who've   been seeing one another for several years, have yet to set a wedding date, the White House said. More »

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      George W. Bush  • marriage  • Karl Rove  • Laura Bush  • Jenna Bush  • Henry Hager  • engagement

  • March 2007

    • Why Can't the Media Cheer Up?

      newser  |  CNN  |  Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST

      Why Can't the Media Cheer Up?

      Her mission was to talk about women and heart disease. But Laura Bush couldn't help telling Larry King how she really felt about the media portrayal of her husband's war in Iraq. "Many parts of Iraq are stable now," the First Lady told King. "But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody." More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • media  • radio  • blogger  • Laura Bush  • Larry King

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