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New first lady has place for everything (herself included)
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When she was 5, Laura Bush has told her friends, she lined up her dolls and pretended to be their teacher. Over the years, she has arranged her personal library according to the Dewey Decimal System and has kept her record collection of 33s and 45s in mint condition and dustfree.
As first lady of Texas, friends and colleagues say, she assembled thick scrapbooks of official and personal events, chose her Christmas card by the previous February and wrote thank-you notes within 24 hours of an event. Her clothing designer says that she arranges her shoes in their original boxes according to hue and has begun to scan photographs of her wardrobe into a computer. Her architect says that she does not leave papers unfiled and does not post yellow sticky notes as reminders of things to do.
“Rock of Gibraltar," is how former President George Bush, her father-in-law, has described her. “Rock," the former first lady Barbara Bush, her mother-in-law, has echoed.
Jan Bullock, the widow of Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock and a close friend said: “She's constant. She's valiant. She never craters. When I asked her if she was sleeping during the five weeks when the election was up in the air, she said, ‘I sleep just fine.'"
Now, the librarian-schoolteacher from West Texas with the passion for serious literature is about to become first lady of the United States.
In a prepared statement about her goals as first lady, Mrs. Bush said: “I have a lifelong passion for introducing children to the magic of words. I was a public school teacher and I know what a difficult and rewarding job teaching is. I am proud of my efforts on behalf of the children of Texas and I look forward to building those efforts on behalf of all American schoolchildren."
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