Laura Bush, always supportive of husband, turns it up a notch on stump

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Laura Bush, always supportive of husband, turns it up a notch on stump

SIOBHAN McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, August 25, 2004


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(08-25) 13:45 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

As Laura Bush tells it, she and her husband were pulling into the driveway one night when she turned to him and said the speech he had just given wasn't very good. He drove into the garage wall.

No wonder the future president went a little off course. These were words from an endlessly supportive wife, who had till then heeded advice from mother-in-law Barbara Bush never to criticize her husband's speeches.

The family car -- or at least the ranch pickup -- has been safe ever since.

Sure, she let it be known she didn't care for his "dead or alive" ultimatum to Osama bin Laden. But first and foremost, this first lady is cheerleader to the president, and one who has used a louder megaphone this campaign than in the last to tell people what a great guy she and the country have landed.

In speaking so often of him, she has revealed little of herself.

"Very disciplined," she calls herself. "I don't really have to watch everything I say, because I'm pretty well-behaved as it is."

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