Washington, Oct 6 : Former American first lady Laura Bush says her admiration for Hillary Clinton has grown after she witnessed her “emotional and physical stamina” during the presidential campaign of 2008.

Dallas, Feb 21 : A month after leaving the White House, former President George W Bush and his wife Laura, shifted to their new home in a wealthy Dallas neighbourhood.

Bush''s motorcade drove past a security barricade on Friday evening, bringing the former first couple to their new residence.

Apparently, the barricade was set up by Dallas Police and Secret Service agents to limit access to the neighbourhood.

Washington, Jan 6 : US First Lady Laura Bush has inked a deal with Scribner to write her memoirs for publication in the spring of 2010.

The memoir will include her experiences in White House and Texas governor's mansion along with some `very personal' details like having a strong-willed mother-in-law, dealing with loss and raising children.

"I am very pleased to be associated with Scribner, the distinguished publishing house of many of my favorite books," Politico. com quoted Bush as saying.

New York, December 29 : Laura Bush may not be too keen to spill all the beans in her memoir, according to sources.

The First Lady of the United States had previously confirmed that she was planning to pen a memoir and had met publishers in that regard.

The wife of the forty-third and current US President, George W. Bush, had reportedly pitched her upcoming special about the White House to eight of them.

"The interest is tepid. She''s not willing to reveal as much as they expect her to," the New York Daily News quoted an insider as saying.

Washington, Dec 29 : First Lady Laura Bush has said that she was offended by the recent `assault' on her husband, who had two shoes thrown at him during a recent visit to Iraq, but also believes that the assault shows that Iraqis feel a lot freer than they did before.

Laura Bush said she thinks the reporter who threw his shoes at her husband while he was in Iraq assaulted her husband, but felt that the act signified freedom that Iraqis never had under Saddam Hussein.

Washington, Dec 22 : US First Lady Laura Bush has said that President George W. Bush is really, really great with young people.

In a rather `unplugged' telephonic interview, Laura talked of all the tragedies that struck the nation in Bush's tenure as President, and revealed how the couple used to comfort families of the victims of 9/11 or the war.

She also revealed her husband''s private efforts to comfort families who lost loved ones in the wars and to encourage wounded soldiers in their recovery.

DALLAS, Dec. 4  -- President Bush and his wife, Laura, have bought a house in an upscale neighborhood in Dallas, the White House confirmed Thursday.

Laura Bush's office would not give the exact location of the house, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The newspaper said the couple's future home appears to be on a cul-de-sac in the Preston Hollow neighborhood. Robert McCleskey, Bush's accountant in Midland, Texas, bought a house on Daria Place appraised at more than $2 million as a trustee in October, records on file with the Dallas Central Appraisal District showed.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30  -- First Lady Laura Bush said Sunday that the official White House Christmas tree was safely ensconced in the Blue Room.

The Fraser fir shipped in from North Carolina will be decorated with ornaments from around the United States for what will be the Bush family's final Christmas in the presidential residence.

The theme of the tree's decoration scheme will be announced later this week, the first lady told the audience, which included a delegation from the National Christmas Tree Growers Association.

New York, Nov 12: The First Lady of the US, Laura Bush, is in talks for a multimillion-dollar deal to write her memoirs, while her husband George W. Bush may have to wait years before he can write his.

As things have not been going very well during his two terms as President, Bush has been advised to wait for some years before he can publish his memoirs.

“Laura is interviewing publishers who are bidding on her memoirs,” the New York Post quoted one biographer as saying.

“The publishers are coming to the White House to meet with her and discuss the book,” the biographer said.

New York, Sept. 26 : US First Lady Laura Bush has said that Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin does not have any significant foreign policy background, but can rely on John McCain for help in this area.

In an interview with CNN, Bush was asked whether Palin, who is McCain''s running mate, had sufficient foreign policy experience.

"Of course she doesn''t have that. You know, that''s not been her role. But I think she is a very quick study, and fortunately John McCain does have that sort of experience," Fox News quoted her, as saying.

St Paul, Minnesota - US First Lady Laura Bush gave a first jolt of energy to Republican delegates starved of star power on the first day of the centre-right party's presidential nominating convention.

She has remained a popular national figure across party lines, even with approval ratings for her husband, President George W Bush, languishing around 30 per cent.

The president and Vice President Dick Cheney were due to headline the first night of the four-day convention before Hurricane Gustav's landfall on the Gulf Coast led Republicans to scuttle Monday evening's speeches.

Washington - First lady Laura Bush cancelled an appearance for Monday near the Republican convention city of St Paul, Minnesota, as the party readjusted its schedule to accommodate the impending drama of Hurricane Gustav.

On Sunday, President George W Bush cancelled his speech which was to be the centre point of Monday's convention opening.

Instead, he will travel to Texas to be near headquarters for federal operations during the category 3 storm, which was expected to make landfall by noontime (1500 GMT).

Kabul  - US First Lady Laura Bush arrived for one-day-visit in Afghanistan Sunday and was scheduled to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other senior officials, a government official said.

She was also scheduled to visit the central province of Bamian, where two giant Buddha statues are located, said the official, who requested anonymity.

The two statues were destroyed in March 2001 by Taliban militants who deemed them as un-Islamic. Bamian is also the only province in the country that is led by a female governor.

Washington, Sept.29 : U.S.First Lady Laura Bush has problems sleeping if she hasn't read a few pages first.

But her husband, the President, apparently has no such issues. Having made a gaffe by recently referring to children as 'childrens", the President's staff is taking great pains to plant stories in the press of how he reads while exercycling.

Laura Bush has canceled plans to travel with the president on a tour next month to Australia for the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, citing a pinched nerve, her press secretarial assistant enounced in a report.

The press secretary Sally McDonough also told that Mrs. Laura Bush suffered the injury while hiking earlier this year and has been going through physiotherapy.

“Her physicians have strongly advised her to not travel overseas in order to avoid potential complication and aggravation by extended long distance travel,” McDonough also said.