Posted on 02/26/2009 4:58:46 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Bush Talks About Life Outside the White House 'The Only Thing We Don't Have Are the Newspapers,' Says Former First Lady By JONATHAN KARL and KAREN TRAVERS
HOUSTON Feb. 26, 2009—
Commercial airline travel, trips to the hardware store for nightlights and walks around the neighborhood all part of everyday life these days for former President George W. Bush and his wife, former first lady Laura Bush.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Mrs. Bush said she and her husband were settling into a normal, post-presidency life at their new home in the Preston Hollow section of Dallas after spending a month at their ranch in Crawford while the house was finished.
Watch This Exclusive Interview With Laura Bush Tonight on 'World News' at 6:30 p.m. ET, and Again Tomorrow on 'Good Morning America', 7 a.m. ET
Mrs. Bush said she has yet to cook a meal herself, because friends have been bringing over prepared dinners to welcome them back to town. The Bushes have had several large dinner parties with old friends, but they had to resort to borrowing furniture to accommodate their guests.
"We have very little furniture. We don't have a kitchen table or a dining room table," she said. "Friends loaned me a kitchen table and the other night I had 16 people for dinner and I had to borrow chairs from the Secret Service next door."
After years of having everything they wanted right at their finger tips, the Bushes are finding that sometimes the little things are the most difficult to get.
"The only thing we don't have are the newspapers. It has been slow to get The Dallas Morning News delivered," she said. "People bring the newspaper to us later in the day. It's just not being delivered yet."
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WHY do the Bushs keep dancing to the media’s tune?
Why didn’t W retire to Crawford?
I found myself in the supermarket today and I caught the front cover of the “Globe”. If you have a chance check it out, it has a picture of GWB on the cover.
Fence building, log splitting photo ops no longer necessary.
That's a good thing Mr Last President. Too depressing anyway.
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Why provide ratings to the people who tried their damndest to destroy you for 8 years?
"The next day I thought it was so ironic that for eight years I would be a nervous wreck before the State of the Union, and for days before, as George would be preparing his speech, worried about it and thinking about what was going to be in the speech. And this time it came and went and I didn't even think about it."
You just gotta love her! Bless her heart!
~~~Ignore the freaky BDSers .... Pres. Bush .... PING!
Laura wanted a house in Dallas. They have the ranch to go to.
My conclusion too. W was a rural Texan poseur.
No, I’ve read a lot of articles/books about George W. Bush and I think he really does love his Crawford ranch.
Maybe it’s too isolated there to live there full time, without the girls in their “whining pool,” LOL.
Skip the Dallas Morning Snooze, Laura. They are in constant adoration of all things Obama. But the Ft. Worthless Star Telegram is even worse, so perhaps you ought to become friends with the internet.
He doesn’t have to copy Reagan’s “rugged cowboy look” any longer.
The facade is over.
We got Lyndon B Johnson Part II.
LOL. Thanks, STARWISE.
Whatever he does or did, there must be an evil explanation for it. It never ends.
Really? I love that show. A&E or BBC America?
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