by Laura Bush
physical appearance of, 31, 49, 52, 75-76, 79-80, 95, 135, 184-85, 186, 194, 296, 378-79; postpresidential life of, 429-32; radio addresses by, 234-35, 237-38; reading by, 41, 46, 58, 67, 76-77, 83-84, 90, 92, 101, 142, 143-45, 167, 169, 178, 249-50, 423; religious faith of, 60, 65-66, 116, 334, 394-95, 409-10; as Republican, 100, 281, 289, 290; speeches given by, 101, 130, 156, 158, 180, 230-31, 234-35, 237-38, 241-42, 256-60, 285-86, 294, 315, 319-20, 325, 430; staff of, 167, 179-81, 197-98, 235, 288-90, 311-12, 356-57, 375, 424-26, 429; teaching career of, 39-40, 69, 82-91, 189, 226-27, 277, 306; as Texas first lady, 134-46, 167-68, 169, 180; wedding of, 43, 95-97, 98, 194
Bush, Margaret, 383-84
Bush, Marvin, 129, 146, 383
Bush, Neil, 118, 124-25, 146
Bush, Noelle, 95
Bush, Robin, 66, 110, 276
Caldwell, Kirbyjon, 411
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, 296, 358, 359
Camp David, 128, 177-79, 193, 202, 209, 212, 216-17, 218, 262, 263, 275-76, 282, 307, 319, 365, 370, 382, 384, 415, 422, 424, 425
Candy (friend), 53-54
Canizaro, Joe, 358
Card, Andy, 206-7, 263, 311, 367, 370, 429
Card, Kathleene, 206-7, 263, 370
Carrington, Alice, 236
Carruth, Delores, 106
Carter, Amy, 223
Carter, Jimmy, 103, 223, 233
Carter, Mr., 71
Carver, George Washington, 54
Castro, Fidel, 268-69
Cather, Willa, 46, 94, 250, 281
CeaseFire, 356
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 204-5, 229, 248
Chalmette High School, 345-46
Charge to Keep, A (Koerner), 246
Charles, Prince of Wales, 105-6, 296, 358-59
Cheney, Dick, 157-58, 169, 191, 203, 204, 205, 212, 269, 301, 305-6, 366-67
Cheney, Lynne, 157, 160, 169, 170, 204, 205, 269, 305-6, 326
Cheney, Mary, 305-6, 307
Chertoff, Michael, 426
children's issues, 250-54, 256-57, 293-94, 295, 363-65, 376-78, 421
Children's National Medical Center, 244, 272-73
Chiles, Lawton, 134, 141
Chiles, Rhea, 141
Chilufya, Martha, 392
China, 192, 227, 255, 359, 372-73, 381, 394, 398, 416, 418-19
Chirac, Bernadette, 300, 301, 317
Chirac, Jacques, 230, 258, 285, 293, 400
Christenson, Barry, 388
Christenson, Elise, 388
Christmas, 12, 23, 25, 61, 109, 111, 128, 129, 138, 156, 162, 185, 243-44, 256, 260, 272-75, 298, 307, 343, 360, 381, 402, 403, 424
Churchill, Winston S., 177, 256
Civil War, U.S., 31, 54, 55, 139, 175, 275, 318, 332, 347
Clancy, Joe, 315
Clark, Carol Higgins, 169
Clark, Mary Higgins, 169
Clarke, Nancy, 194, 358
Clements, Bill, 140
Clements, Rita, 134-35, 140, 141, 168
Cliburn, Van, 236
Clinton, Bill, 128-29, 149, 159, 164, 169-70, 171, 172, 176, 178, 179, 184-85, 206, 247, 255, 277, 278, 302, 306-7, 308, 318, 347, 374, 394, 430
Clinton, Chelsea, 165, 166, 186, 223, 306-7
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 141, 164, 165-66, 169-70, 171, 172, 175, 176, 178, 198, 223, 251, 255, 266, 268, 277, 288, 302, 306-7, 347, 351, 378, 394, 426
Cochran, W. C., 122
Cold War, 190, 218, 232-33, 236, 293, 310, 384
Cole, Bruce, 405
Columbia explosion (2003), 279
Comanche Indians, 18, 121, 122
Comerford, Cris, 389
Committee for the Preservation of the White House, 387
Congress, U.S., 84-85, 123, 157, 165, 166, 171-72, 193, 197-99, 211, 217-18, 219, 232, 247, 273-74, 288-91, 298, 370, 384-86, 393, 394, 401, 417-18, 424
Congressional Ball, 186, 274, 289-91, 347, 360
Congressional Club, 288-89
Congressional Picnic, 197, 289
Constitution, U.S., 163, 318
Coolidge, Calvin, 222, 223, 274
Coolidge, Calvin, Jr., 224
Coolidge, Grace, 223
Cooper, Jerry, 50, 51
Couric, Katie, 168, 302-3
Cowboy (LWB's cat), 131, 140
Crenshaw, Ben and Julie, 163
Crocker, Ryan, 369
Crouch, Stanley, 169
Cuba, 268-69, 365, 384
Cullen, Joyce, 379-80
Curry, Ann, 329, 353
Curseen, Joseph, Jr., 219, 230
Cyclone Nargis, 410-11
Czech Republic, 259-60, 270-71
Dagestan, 256-57
Daily Mirror, 295
Daily Record, 178
Dalai Lama, 359, 392
Dallas Morning News, 123
Daschle, Tom, 219
Dashti, Roula al-, 398
Davis, Gary, 414
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), 46, 250
Decade of Literacy, 375
Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women, 252
de la Renta, Oscar, 183, 378-79
Dell, Susan, 168
Democratic Party, 100, 101, 128-29, 132, 146, 159-64, 212, 281, 289, 290, 383, 384-85, 410
Denogean, Guadalupe, 286
DeParle, Jason, 351, 352-53
Department of Public Safety (DPS), Texas, 63, 133-34, 136, 138, 145, 156, 157
Dewey (LWB's cat), 91, 96
DeWitt, Bill, 126-27
Diana, Princess, 105-6
Dobriansky, Paula, 311, 312
Domino, Fats, 374
Donenberg, Ben, 357
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 188
Door of No Return, 327-28
Doty, Jim, 216
Doty, Joan, 216, 435
Douglas, Bill, 60
Douglas, Mike, 58-67, 71, 134
DuBois, W. E. B., 281
Duckworth, Connie, 315
Dukakis, Kitty, 153
Dukakis, Michael, 153
Duke (LWB's dog), 22-23, 32
Dunham, Jason, 287-88
Dunn, Alan, 209-10
Dunn, Debra, 209-10
Dykes, Judy, 59, 60, 62
Dylan, Bob, 75-76
Early Learning Summit, 263
Early Show, 188
Ebadi, Shirin, 294
economic crisis (2008-10), 419-20, 421, 425
Edwards, John, 277, 278, 306
Egypt, 113, 323-25, 412-13
Ehrhardt, Harryette, 76-77
Eiseley, Loren, 46
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 100, 177, 222, 223, 266, 275
Eisenhower, Mamie, 223, 351
elections, U.S.: of 1860, 274-75; of 1970, 94, 99; of 1978, 98-102, 115, 153, 216; of 1980, 102-3, 156, 301; of 1984, 112; of 1988, 118, 119-26, 128-30, 153, 156, 159, 209, 394; of 1992, 149, 156, 169, 394; of 1996, 394; of 1998, 129, 130, 132, 151, 160, 233, 298, 399; of 2000, 63, 151, 152-64, 170, 216, 302; of 2002, 273-74; of 2004, 163, 298-307, 349; of 2006, 373-74, 382; of 2008, 420
Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 181, 191, 295-96, 358, 385, 389-90
Emancipation Proclamation, 387
Enger, Leif, 249-50
Englehart, Susan, 76, 82
Engler, John, 179
Ensenat, Don, 256
Epoch Times, 372-73
Etra, Don and Paula, 182
Europe, Eastern, 189-90, 258-59, 292, 318
Europe, Western, 188-89, 256-60, 295-97, 415
European Union (EU), 188-89, 415
Evans, Don, 98, 102, 103, 112, 116, 118, 120-21, 162, 173, 236
Evans, Susie Marinis, 38-39, 102, 103, 112, 118-19, 173, 283
Faircloth, Michael, 135, 168
Falun Gong, 373
Farabee, Mary Margaret, 143
Farida (Afghan woman), 251
Fasano, Peter, 222
Fatima, Sheikha, 397
Favela, Robert, 310
Favre, Brett and Deanna, 364
FAWE Girls' School, 332
Federal Bureau of Investi
gation (FBI), 55, 204-5, 229, 248, 279
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 337, 364
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 77
Fenton, Cathy, 194, 235, 296
Ferber, Edna, 281
Ferguson, Bobbie Jo, 76, 80, 82, 84-85, 91
Festival of School Libraries, 293-94
Firestone, Caroline, 314
First Lady's Luncheon, 288-89
First Lady's Prayer Group, 394
First Methodist Church (Midland, Tex.), 11, 36, 58, 97
Flaum, David, 323
Fletcher, Scott, 167
Florida recount (2000), 161-64
Ford, Betty, 119, 222
Ford, Gerald R., 100, 103, 218, 222, 223, 256, 348
Ford's Theatre, 185-86, 280, 282-83, 386
Fortune, 396
Fox, Marta, 194
Fox, Vicente, 193-94
France, 146, 230, 256-58, 278, 284, 293, 301, 400-401, 415
Francis, Debbie, 66, 227
Francis, Jim, 65-66
Franklin, Robert, 105
Franks, Tommy, 277
Freckles (LWB's dog), 23
Friedan, Betty, 77, 92
Friedman, Kinky, 144
Frist, Bill and Karyn, 289
Funk, Lisa, 390
G8 Summit, 188, 262, 292, 300-301, 317, 327, 328, 390-91, 400
Gacaca courts, 331-32
Gambari, Ibrahim, 393
Gammon, Billy, 89, 92, 96, 103, 143, 145, 301
Gammon, Lara, 183
Gammon, Regan Kimberlin, 49-50, 52, 55-56, 62, 66, 82, 88, 89, 92-93, 96, 145, 151, 183, 285, 299, 301, 376, 402-3
gangs, 349-58, 421
Garrison, Sarah Moss, 174-75, 203, 311
Gates, Robert, 382
Gates Foundation, 377
Gatlin, Larry, 174
gay marriage, 259, 303, 305-6, 307
George Washington Carver High School, 78, 405
George W. Bush Institute, 431
Georgia (friend), 349-50
Germany, 13, 284, 300, 390-91, 415
Gettysburg Address, 387
Ghana, 362-63
GHESKIO Center, 408
Gioia, Dana, 405
Giuliani, Rudy, 211, 212, 241-42
Gladney Home, 104-5
Glick, Jeremy, 213
Glick, Lyzbeth, 213
Global Forum on Education (2002), 256-57
Glory Road, 365-66
Gnagy, Mrs., 39-40
God, 9, 60, 65-66, 209, 334, 409, 412, 431
Goldman, William, 58
Gone With the Wind (film), 49, 75
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 48
Good Behavior Game, 357
Gore, Al, 159-64, 169, 199, 277, 394
Gore, Tipper, 169
Goree slave fortress, 327-28
Gottesman, Blake, 297, 381
Gottesman, Lisa, 297
Governor's Mansion, Texas, 134, 138-40, 144, 149, 154, 163, 167-68, 170, 247
Graber, Ted, 176
Graham, Billy, 118, 209
Grant, Ulysses S., 176, 243
Gray, Alyne, 38-39, 45
Gray, Jane, 38, 82
Gray, Robert, 38
Great Britain, 94, 191-92, 217, 220, 246-47, 255-56, 284, 285, 295-97, 327, 331-32, 392-93, 402
Great Depression, 19, 23, 32, 77, 80, 114, 131, 251, 297-98
Greer, Germaine, 92
Gregg, Judd, 156, 198-99, 200, 201, 289
Gregg, Kathleen, 156, 289
Gridiron Club, 282-83, 326
Guidroz, Erika, 345
Gulf War, 128, 146, 157, 218, 234, 278, 384
Gunnells, Mrs., 86, 88
Gutenberg Bible, 144-45
Guthrie, Dr., 58, 65
Haberman, Joshua, 209
Hackney, Betty, 62
Hackney, Johnny, 16, 43, 62, 93
Hackney, Mandy, 93
Haddad, Marian, 33
Hadley, Stephen, 310, 426
Hager, Henry, 306, 411-12, 430
Hager, Jenna Bush, see Bush, Jenna
Hager, John and Maggie, 411
Hagin, Joe, 311, 338, 339
Haiti, 376, 408, 430
Hale, David, 399
Hall, Janet and Tony, 394
Hammond, Kim, 66, 134
Hampton, Lionel, 107, 190
Hance, Kent, 100, 101
Hanks, Tom, 133, 357
Hanukkah, 244, 381, 403-4
Harper's Weekly, 275
Harrigan, Steve, 162, 169
Harrison, Caroline, 224
Harry Ransom Center, 91-92
Harvard Business School, 101, 114
Haskins, Don, 365
Havel, V'clav, 259, 270-71, 319
Havlov', Dagmar, 259, 270-71
Hawass, Zahi, 325
Hawkins, Gertie, 38
Hawkins, Hal, 4-5, 31-37, 38, 73-74, 139, 310
Hawkins, Jessie Laura ("Grammee"), 7, 31-37, 38, 45, 139, 310, 395
Hawkins, Kitty, 38
Hayes, Rutherford B., 246-47, 370
Haynes, Ola Dublin, 47
Head Start program, 142
Healy, George P., 176
Heart Truth, 379-80
Heiligenstein, Anne, 181
Helping America's Youth Initiative, 349-58, 373, 377
Henry (LWB's cat), 23
Henry, Ed, 352
Hernandez, Israel "Izzy," 154
Herrera, Carolina, 296, 378
Herzog, Chaim, 123
Heymann, David, 154-55
Heyne, Fred, 89-90
Heyne, Janet Kinard, 76, 82, 85, 86, 89-90, 212
Hickox, Joe, 100
Hisham's Palace, 322-23
HMS Resolute, 246-47
Hogan, T. S., 18
Hogg, James Stephen, 139
Holbrook, Hal, 280
Holocaust, 13-17, 182-83, 189, 259, 292, 321, 323
Homeboy Industries, 354-55
Homeland Security Department, U.S., 245, 338-39, 426
Honore, Russel, 358
Hopi Indians, 287
Houston, Sam, 54, 134, 138-39, 172
Howard, Janette and John, 197
Howard University, 350-51, 355-56
Howell, Brady and Elizabeth Anderson, 244
Hughes, Karen, 204, 234-35, 237, 429
Hughes, Langston, 280, 281
Hu Jintao, 372, 419
human rights, 255, 278, 319-20, 392-94, 404, 410-11, 421-22
Humble Oil and Refining Co., 26
Hungary, 258-59
Hurricane Camille, 338
Hurricane Katrina, 337-47, 358, 359, 363-65, 369, 374, 422
Hurricane Rita, 358
Hurston, Zora Neale, 280
Hussein, Qusay, 285
Hussein, Saddam, 128, 146, 255, 264, 270, 276, 277, 292-95, 298, 362, 382, 421
Hussein, Uday, 285
I Love You, Little One, 215
India, 255, 352, 367, 368-69, 410
India (LWB's cat), 140, 167, 329, 360
Indonesia, 255, 295
Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS), 406
International Criminal Court, 255
International Human Rights Day, 404
International Women's Day, 252
Iran, 263, 293, 294
Iraq, 113, 128, 255, 263, 273
Iraq War, 255, 264, 270, 275, 276-88, 291, 292-95, 297, 298, 300, 304-5, 353, 362, 366, 367, 373-74, 382-83, 385, 393, 399, 401-2, 404, 421, 425
Isaacson, Walter, 162
Israel, 256, 279, 321-23, 325, 352, 412
Italy, 192, 318, 366
Jack and Jill School, 38-39, 82
Jackson, Andrew, 171, 175, 221, 360
Japan, 13, 218, 291, 295, 305, 352, 373, 393
Jawad, Shamim, 413
Jefferson, Lisa, 213
Jefferson, Thomas, 213, 217, 221, 405
Jensen, Larsen, 419
Jerman, Wilson, 348
Jesus Christ, 37, 159, 275
Jeter, Derek, 229
Jewish Museum (New York City), 244
Jiang Zemin, 237
John F. Kennedy Elementary School, 69, 86-91, 94, 142
Johnny's Bar-B-Q restaurant, 9, 16, 40 43, 44, 79, 117, 130
John Paul II, Pope, 192, 318
Johnson, Anne and Clay, 106
Johnson, Lady Bird, 92, 145, 152, 164, 187, 266, 348-49, 402
Johnson, Luci, 92, 187, 223, 349
Johnson, Lynda, 92, 187, 223, 348, 349
Johnson, Lyndon B., 72, 92, 218, 222, 243, 298, 348, 349, 386
Johnson, Robert and Weldon, 106
Jones, Eric, 244
Jones, James, 426
Jones, Mike, 53-54
Jordan, 318-21, 399-400
Judge, Mychal, 201-2
KaBOOM!, 364-65
Kagame, Jeannette, 283, 333
Kaiser, Michael, 369
Kalam, A. P. J. Abdul, 369
Kamiya, Jason, 317
Karume, Shadya, 331
Karzai, Hamid, 252, 312, 316-17, 368, 414
Karzai, Zeenat, 316-17, 368
Kashmere Gardens Neighborhood Library, 92
Katsav, Gila, 321
Kaur, Gursharan, 108, 368-69
Kellam, Sheppard, 357
Kelly, Michael, 353
Kemp, Jack, 394
Kemp, Joanne, 394
Kempthorne, Dirk, 389
Kennedy, Caroline, 91, 183, 223
Kennedy, Edward M., 197-99, 213, 247, 365
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 72, 164, 165, 183-84, 185, 220, 221, 222, 224, 251, 265, 273, 348, 351
Kennedy, John F., 52, 67, 71-72, 73, 83, 91, 176, 183, 198, 199, 218, 222, 247, 298, 360, 365
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 199, 223, 247
Kennedy, Patrick, 72, 224
Kennedy, Robert F., 80-81, 199
Kennedy, Victoria, 198
Kerry, John, 163, 277, 278, 305-6, 354
Kerry, Teresa Heinz, 306
Khrushchev, Nikita, 52, 233
Kibaki, Lucy and Mwai, 294
Kimberlin, Wanda, 50, 52, 88
King, Larry L., 143-44
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 80-81, 406
Kitty (LWB's cat), 203, 205, 244
Klass, Perri, 375
Knorr, Charlie, 98
Koch, Bobby, 410, 424
Koch, Doro Bush, 129, 163, 384, 410, 424
Koizumi, Junichiro, 291, 373
Kosciuszko, Thaddeus, 266
Kosovo, 192, 220
Kufuor, John, 363, 407
Kufuor, Theresa, 407
Kurtzer, Sheila, 321
Kuwait, 128, 146, 278, 280, 398-99