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December 2006
President Bush, Laura Bush: Lighting of the National Christmas Tree - Opening Ceremony for the 2006 Christmas Pageant of Peace. The Ellipse, Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush are joined by Junior Rangers from the National Park Service program Thursday evening, Dec. 7, 2006, as they press the switch to light the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
President Bush, Laura Bush: Lighting of the National Christmas Tree - Opening Ceremony for the 2006 Christmas Pageant of Peace. The Ellipse, Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush are joined by Junior Rangers from the National Park Service program Thursday evening, Dec. 7, 2006, as they press the switch to light the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Laura Bush poses with the family pets in the Blue Room in front of the White House Christmas Tree on December 1, 2006. President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush pose for their official 2006 Holiday Portrait in the Blue Room of the White House.
Conductor Zubin Mehta laughs with singers Dolly Parton and William "Smokey" Robinson during a reception for the Kennedy Center honorees in the East Room Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush attend the Kennedy Center Honors Gala at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006. Pictured with the first couple are Vice President Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney and the honorees. From left, they are musical theater composer Andrew Lloyd Webber; film director Steven Spielberg, country singer Dolly Parton, conductor Zubin Mehta and singer and songwriter William "Smokey" Robinson.
President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush sit with children of deployed U.S. military personnel and watch a performance of "Willy Wonka" by members of The Kennedy Center Education Department in the East Room Monday, Dec. 4, 2006. President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush sit with children of deployed U.S. military personnel and watch a performance of "Willy Wonka" by members of The Kennedy Center Education Department in the East Room Monday, Dec. 4, 2006.
President Bush, Laura Bush: Lighting of the National Christmas Tree - Opening Ceremony for the 2006 Christmas Pageant of Peace. The Ellipse, Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush are joined by Junior Rangers from the National Park Service program Thursday evening, Dec. 7, 2006, as they press the switch to light the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush join entertainers Eartha Kitt, left, and Cathy Rigby, center, along with Santa Claus, invited children and The Singing Angels choir director Charles Eversole, right, on stage Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006, at the 2006 Christmas Pageant of Peace and the 83rd lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
Crowds on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., watch the annual lighting of the National Christmas Tree, attended by President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, Thursday evening, Dec. 7, 2006, during the 2006 Christmas Pageant of Peace. Mrs. Laura Bush is joined by, from left, Jo Ann Jenkins, chief operating officer of the Library of Congress; Italian Ambassador to the U.S. Giovanni Castellaneta and his wife, Lila Castellaneta; Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, chairman and CEO of Finmeccancia; professor Paolo Galluzzi, the director of the National Museum of History of Science in Florence, Italy, and Marina Grossi, wife of Pier Francesco Guarguaglini and CEO of SELEX Sistemi Ingrati, during a tour of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawing and painting of The Adoration of the Magi, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Mrs. Laura Bush is shown a video presentation on the preservation and study of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawing and painting of The Adoration of the Magi, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., by professor Paolo Galluzzi, the director of the National Museum of History of Science in Florence, Italy. Mrs. Laura Bush sits with patient escorts Allison Meads, left, and Matthew Morgan, as she reads to an audience of children, patients and hospital staff Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, at The Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where Mrs. Bush visited with patients and debuted the 2006 Barney Cam video.
Mrs. Laura Bush and Mrs. Melinda Gates meet Thursday morning, Dec. 14, 2006, during a coffee hosted by Mrs. Bush at the White House, prior to their participation at the White House Summit on Malaria. Mrs. Laura Bush addresses her remarks at the first-ever White House Summit on Malaria, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006, at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. The President's Malaria Initiative, a five-year $1.2 billion program to eradicate malaria in 15 countries, announced at the summit that it will launch a further $30 million Malaria Communities Program to build independent, sustainable malaria-control projects in Africa.
Mrs. Laura Bush addresses her remarks at the first-ever White House Summit on Malaria, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006, at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. The President's Malaria Initiative, a five-year $1.2 billion program to eradicate malaria in 15 countries, announced at the summit that it will launch a further $30 million Malaria Communities Program to build independent, sustainable malaria-control projects in Africa.

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