Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush talks with Vice Chairman of the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Nasser Musaed Al-Sayer, right, after making a keynote address to a symposium on equity markets in Gulf countries, in Kuwait City, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. Iraq has made a remarkable transformation from a dictatorship to a country whose people voted for the third time in a year this week to choose a new government, GHWB said Sunday.
Students and their mentors from Everybody Wins! DC, a community-based mentoring program, join First Lady Laura Bush and her mother Jenna Welch (front R) to watch C.S. Lewis' 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe' in the White House Theater this past Friday. The students are from Robert Brent Elementary School and the John Tyler Elementary School in Washington. Also in attendance were Douglas Gresham, stepson of C.S. Lewis, Mary Salander, executive director of Everybody Wins! DC, Pat Schroeder, president of American Publishing Association and Michael Flaherty, co-founder and president of Walden Media.
This is the first photo I can recall seeing of the theater in the White House. All I can say is, it sure is red. Red was a popular color in Victorian homes for walls, furniture and drapes. Maybe the theater motif is intended to be Victorian.
