nypost.com - 11/11/2008
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November 11, 2008 -- LAURA Bush is lining up a multimillion-dollar deal to write her memoirs - but the first lady's lame-duck hubby may have to wait years before cashing in on a tell-all about his two troubled terms as president. "Laura is interviewing publishers who are bidding on her memoirs," ...
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Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Tuesday?
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What are the most popular stories around the web this morning? Townhall does the surfing so you don't have to. New York Post: Laura's Hot, But Dubya's Not Slate: ...
Laura Bush Having Greater Success Than George Shopping Memoir
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... , but he's not going to be able to take comfort in the fact that a down economy has the publishing world bearish on presidential remembrances anymore. Because while he can't even get wingnut welfare imprint Regnery Publishing to take his phone calls, his wife is setting up a deal for her own book that looks like a towering pile of dollar bills: ...
Laura Bush Having Greater Success Than George Shopping Memoir
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... , but he's not going to be able to take comfort in the fact that a down economy has the publishing world bearish on presidential remembrances anymore. Because while he can't even get wingnut welfare imprint Regnery Publishing to take his phone calls, his wife is setting up a deal for her own book that looks like a towering pile of dollar bills: ...
Laura Bush’s memoir fetches less than Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush’s.
Think Progress —
... ” on the book deal, far less than the several million that it was expected to fetch. Gawker notes that Bush’s deal “is not only a mere one-fifth of what [former First Lady Hillary Clinton] got, ...
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Planet Reich: Thanks for the memoirs - Reason Magazine
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We let Bush down
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Obama should be like Bush
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Obama asked Bush for help for auto industry —
Reuters: Politics 11/11/2008
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Obama Urges Bush to Help Auto Industry —
FOXNews.com 11/11/2008
President Bush said he would sign a second economic stimulus bill if congressional Democrats pass the Colombia Free Trade deal, according to sources familiar with Bush's Monday meeting with President-elect Barack Obama.
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