Laura Bush to Release Memoir Next Year

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

ABC News' Yunji de Nies Reports: First Lady Laura Bush has found a publisher, and is set to release a memoir next year.

Publishing house Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., has acquired the rights to the first lady's book. In a statement, Scriber says the memoir will offer "an intimate account of Mrs. Bush's life experiences, including eight years in the White House."

Nan Graham, Vice President and Editor-in Chief of Scriber, will edit the book. Neither Scriber nor the White House has said how much Mrs. Bush will be paid.

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/01/laura-bush-to-...

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1. Free suggestion for a title

"Listening to Xanax."

You're welcome, Mrs. Bush.

[MessiahRp]

15. Considering how these morons view themselves I suspect it will be more upbeat

"The Best President Ever" or "We Were Awesome!" fits the bill.

Rp

[DemoTex]

18. "A Stepford Wife in a Potemkin Village"

By Pickles Bu$h

Into by Ru$h Limbaugh

Photos by Karen Hughes

[tanyev]

20. Halcyon Days With Halcion

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Will this be one of the chapters? Will she give an intimate account of this life experience?

Laura Bush Car Accident



Claim: While a teenager, future First Lady Laura Bush caused the death of a classmate in a car accident.

Status: True.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

In May 2000, a two-page police report pertaining to a fatal accident that had taken place near Midland, Texas, in 1963 was made public. It Laura Bush contained the information that 17-year-old Laura Welch had run a stop sign, causing the death of the sole occupant of the vehicle hers had struck. According to that report, the future First Lady had been driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on 6 November 1963 when she entered an intersection without heeding the stop sign and there collided with the Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. Also in the car with Laura Welch was a passenger, 17-year-old Judy Dykes.

How fast Miss Welch might have been driving is open to question. That part of the police report is illegible, although two biographies of the First Lady refer to her as having been going 50 mph at the time of the collision. The speed limit on that portion of road was 55 mph. According to the police report neither driver had been drinking, but no tests were performed. No charges were filed as a result of the accident.

News accounts from 1963 reported the young man as having been thrown from his car and dying of a broken neck; he was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. According to various biographies of Mrs. Bush, the boy's father had been traveling in a car immediately behind his son's and witnessed the whole thing.

The two teen girls were taken to the same hospital and treated for minor injuries that amounted to bumps and bruises.

Michael Douglas, the young man who was killed, had been a member of Laura Welch's crowd at high school and her friend. He had been a star athlete, excelling in track and football, and was looked up to by his peers not just for his athlete prowess, but for his personality and intelligence too. By all reports, he was likeable, outgoing, and funny. He was nominated as the school's most popular boy while a junior, an honor that almost always went to a senior.

[LibDemAlways]

12. You can bet that won't rate a mention. Neither will her

behavior the night of 911 when she and the chimp shared a private laugh in the WH living quarters.

I have a feeling her "memoir" will go straight to the $2.00 bargain bin where it will sit languishing forever.

[panader0]

3. I'm sure I don't want to know anything about her "intimacies"

[Frustratedlady]

4. Whoa! I'll be sure to jump on that one when it's published.

I'm sure it will be truthful and informational...an inside look at our illustrious 44th and all the reasons why he was such a failure. If she can't come up with some excuses, I'm sure Karen can.

What a waste of trees.

[hlthe2b]

5. Ahh.. Scribner's found a tax write-off for the next year...

Who the hell thinks there will be anything worth noting in her book?

[Donnachaidh]

6. oh goodie - I need something to prop up an old table we have

I'll bet it will be JUST the right thickness to level it off.

[Nickster]

7. "And then I packed up my things and moved to a nearby hotel. Of course, to keep up my good Christian

appearance, I still showed up for photo-ops with Dubya, but I slept every night elsewhere. Meanwhile, I knew that he found comfort from his good friend Jack Daniels and the arms of his other "wife". It was just too much for me to bear......"

[HopeHoops]

8. "Botox and Booze - The Real Story" - the wingnuts will eat it up.

[MineralMan]

9. I wonder if she'll post stills from the

Dubya/Rice hidden camera videos.

[asjr]

10. I'm sure the Best Seller List is waiting

with open arms.

[Autumn]

11. On pins and needles here,

NOT. I wouldn't want to hear a thing that creature has to say.

[onehandle]

13. "...after 30 seconds, the drunken chimp collapsed on me. I pushed his unconscious body off...

...and ran to the bathroom to wash his stink off. Ciggies and Xanax will help as they always do."

"Four more years... No, Karl says eight more years of this and I can escape."

- Chapter one, paragraph one of "The Chimp and I."

[izquierdista]

14. You can buy it right now

One of those books with the pretty covers that's blank inside.

[timtom]

16. Didn't Dostoevsky already cover that

with his bio of Laura, "The Idiot"?

[Aristus]

17. "How To Commit Vehicular Homicide And Get Away With It." By Laura "Pickles" Bush.

[benld74]

19. My life as the Real Joker!

[hunter]

21. It will be a work of historical fiction.

One five minute telephone interview with the ghost writer and she'll be done.