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To: Y'all
You may not be aware that this week our lovely, fresh-faced First Lady is making her first solo European trip. The press swooned over every infuriating, mind-numbing moment of the Carter's trip to Castro's Cuba. We also saw numerous pictures of the paunch bellied, flabby, white thighed x42 on a golf course in Hawaii. BUT barely a word on the First Lady's trip. Indeed, you really have to dig through the wire services to find anything about it. Correction: Martha Brandt did a short, somewhat dull and occasionally catty piece for Newsweek on the trip.
Sooooo.... I thought you might enjoy seeing what she's been doing. :)

Photos of the First Lady's 10 day solo European trip to Paris, Budapest and Prague ....

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While touring an Afghan exhibit at the Musee Guinet in Paris Mrs Bush pledged to ask wealthy US philantrophist to help restore Afghanistan's two Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban last year and called on the President's administration to help salvage Afghan art. She condemned teenage suicide bombings in the Middle East, Russia and Pakistan in a speech to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In Budapest she comforted cancer patients during a visit to the National Institute of Oncology. The First Lady announced a grant of $500,000 dollars in US aid dedicated to American-Hungarian health care cooperation. Later she toured St. Matthias Church overlooking Budapest with U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, Nancy Brinker, a longtime friend of Mrs. Bush from Dallas. In Prague Mrs Bush speaks with U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic as they join representatives of many nations gathered to pay respect to Jews and prisoners of war held at the Terezin Nazi concentration camp near Prague. She laid a wreath and a bouquet of lillies to mark the anniversary of Terezin's liberation by the Soviet Red Army in May 1945.

1,014 posted on 05/19/2002 1:45:01 PM PDT by Darlin'
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To: Darlin'
Just got back home a short time ago no report on the party folks today except to say it is mighty quiet over there. LOL. Haven't seen a soul stirring so far. LOL. We're having an absolutely fabulous day. Its too beautiful. Hope it's the same where all of you are today. :)
1,015 posted on 05/19/2002 1:52:13 PM PDT by Darlin'
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