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- Bush, Laura Welch (b. 1946)Laura Bush was First Lady from 2001 to 2009, the eight years her husband George W. Bush served as president of the United States. Literacy was one of her chief areas of focus throughout her husband's tenure as president. In 2001, she organized the first National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., co-hosting the event with the head of the Library of Congress. Like her mother-in-law, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush has championed literacy and the pleasures of reading. Also in 2001, Laura Bush became the first wife of a president to deliver the president's weekly radio address...
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- Laura BushLaura Bush initiated and stayed involved in programs devoted to helping children learn to read. In her speech before the RNC, her style is reserved and non-confrontational.
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- Laura Welch BushLaura Lane Welch Bush is the wife of the 43rd President, George W. Bush. She served as First Lady from 2001 to 2009, advocating for historic education reform and the well-being of women and families worldwide....
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Laura Bush
Mrs. Laura Bush is shown in her senior yearbook photo from Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas.
Laura
Before September 11, 2001, little was know about First Lady Laura Bush. Since then she has become America's beacon of hope and strength. This spirited biography traces Laura's fascinating journey from her birth, November 4, 1946, her West Texas childhood, college - where she gained a BSc in education (1968), school-teaching, Master of Library Science degree (1973), librarianship, to wife and mother, dedicated advocate to advancing literacy, and eventually consort of the most powerful man in the free world.
Spoken from the Heart
In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story. Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland's brash, rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of early friendships that sustain her to this day. For the first time, in heart-wrenching detail, she writes about the devastating high school car accident that left her friend Mike Douglas dead and about her decades of unspoken grief. When Laura Welch first left West Texas in 1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the world stage and the White House. After graduating from Southern Methodist University in 1968, in the thick of student rebellions across the country and at the dawn of the women's movement, she became an elementary school teacher, working in inner-city schools, then trained to be a librarian.