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Secret revealed! What Laura Bush and Michelle Obama really talked about
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 11/25/2008
Secret revealed! What Laura Bush and Michelle Obama really talked about
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Closets. No, really. According to First Lady Laura Bush , whose taped interview with Cynthia McFadden appears on ABC's "Nightline" tonight, there were no personal problems and no weighty issues of state discussed when first-lady-elect Michelle Obama visited the White House ...
mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double standard
— mediamatters.org — In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters... and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ... (more) Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...

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washingtonmonthly.com - 11/24/2008
Last Secrets of the Bush Administration - Charles Homans
— washingtonmonthly.com — I n March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W. Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel... to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It concerned an important deadline that was looming one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon. In 1974, ... (more) Last Secrets of the Bush Administration - Charles Homans

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theanchoressonline.com - 11/20/2008
Bush was right. Victorious, too
— theanchoressonline.com — I’m still trying to keep to my new pledge of only writing about politics when it intersects... with religion, but it does seem only fair to note that, Old Europe, which has been struggling all along with its restrictions, has finally admitted ... (more) Bush was right. Victorious, too

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Michelle Obama's closet advice: Huge
The Swamp — ... Until departing First Lady Laura Bush let the secret out of the closet in a meeting with incoming First Lady-to-be Michelle Obama. ...

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