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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I'd love to hear a speech. He's not a great orator (so they say), but when he's speaking candidly, he's quite understandable, often amusing, and, I think, honest. That's what I like in a speaker.
It's a vacation home.
GWB lived in a modest house, attended his neighborhood public school, played little league, etc. in Midland, Texas. The media does not want anyone to know that he had such a middle class childhood. If they had wanted us to know it, we would. Freepers are generally far more informed than others, so I can just imagine what they think.
During the 2000 campaign, the DBM showed aerial pictures of Midland, Texas as it was in 2000, with lots of back yard swimming pools and large houses. That is NOT the kind of neighborhood GWB grew up in. The DBM just left the implication that it was. False implications was the media story on GWB for all 8 years.
Thanks for the ping, STARWISE!
God BLESS the President and First Lady as they enjoy their well deserved "retirement".
Usually it's best to learn before typing.
All true except GHWB was still and undergrad. He quit college to join the service.
Laughable.
From Wikipedia:
Bush was born in Massachusetts to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, at the age of 18, Bush postponed going to college and became the youngest naval aviator in the US Navy at the time. He served until the end of the war, then attended Yale University. Graduating in 1948, he moved his young family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.
In case no one has educated you, they are in Dallas during the week and will spend weekends at the ranch.
Where are you getting that info from? May well happen that way but my guess is they’ll spend time at the ranch on selective occasions, etc. but will be in Dallas mostly when not on the road.
Good for you Pippin!
He was amazed that he could pick up a phone and call someone half way across the world, book a flight and go there in mere hours, know what had happened in the world on the same day it happened, through radio, and TV.
We had computers, had broken the sound barrier....(Well, we didn't have a computer, but IBM and Nasa did!)
He was comparing all the changes he had seen, and how lucky he was to witness it.
It was a great conversation. I wish I had been older so I could remember more of it.
:-)
It always makes me wonder what the fundamental issues are for people who feel the need to attack when the report and article about the President and First Lady are so benign.
Need to prove something, perhaps? We "groupies" don't. We KNOW we admire a man and his wife who are in all ways admirable, and we have nothing to prove.
The President's character proves it all, so we don't have to draw attention to ourselves by saying silly things.
Gee, Toots...I think I have an email about some of that. Let me check and I’ll forward it to you. Just give me a little time....
The comment was made that they would spend the week in Dallas, and go to Crawford for weekends. I'm sure there will be some where they don't get there because they're doing other things, but IIRC, that was the plan.
In any case, the ranch was not purchased for a photo op as was asserted in some of the earlier BDS posts.
If you would like, I'll hunt down the source for that information, or perhaps someone here can remind me of who said it.
Here: This should help:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2195348/posts?page=150;q=1#122
Yah...keep it.
Thanks.
I miss my Dad.
Heh.
See you on the UT in a sec.
K...
As highly as I think of RWR, I do not feel the need to sling personal insults at those who criticise him in earnest.
BTW seeing as though some here like the indirect form of ad hominum, I tried it myself to see how it felt. Verdict; its chickensh*t & I didn't like it. If you felt my comments were directed at you personally, I apologize.
If you would like, I’ll hunt down the source for that information, or perhaps someone here can remind me of who said it.
Naw.... not necessary. I have no doubt they’ll continue to utilize the ranch maybe President Bush more than Laura. My guess is it will use for time away, etc rather than a routine weekend outing. They will become tied to Dallas as time goes on with the Bush Library and his office being located there, etc. I’d even bet he becomes more attuned with the Texas Rangers with the current owner being his next door neighbor, not working but just attending, etc.
But now I am curious about which article or report said that, so I may just hunt it down anyway. :)
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