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November 2008
President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush stand with the recipients of the 2008 National Humanities Medal in the Blue Room at the White House Monday, Nov., 17, 2008. Pictured from left, Thomas A. Saunders III, president, and Jordan Horner Saunders, Board of Directors, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems; Albert Marrin, author; Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, National Review; Harold Holzer, Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gabor S. Boritt, Director, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College; Milton J. Rosenberg, WGN Radio Chicago; Myron Magnet, editor, City Journal; Adair Wakefield Margo, Presidential Citizen Medal recipient; Robert H. Smith, president, Vornado/Charles E. Smith; Laurie Norton, Director and CEO, Norman Rockwell Museum; Bruce Cole, Presidential Citizen Medal recipient.
President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush stand with the recipients of the 2008 National Humanities Medal in the Blue Room at the White House Monday, Nov., 17, 2008. Pictured from left, Thomas A. Saunders III, president, and Jordan Horner Saunders, Board of Directors, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems; Albert Marrin, author; Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, National Review; Harold Holzer, Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gabor S. Boritt, Director, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College; Milton J. Rosenberg, WGN Radio Chicago; Myron Magnet, editor, City Journal; Adair Wakefield Margo, Presidential Citizen Medal recipient; Robert H. Smith, president, Vornado/Charles E. Smith; Laurie Norton, Director and CEO, Norman Rockwell Museum; Bruce Cole, Presidential Citizen Medal recipient.
Mrs. Laura Bush, as part of her briefing Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 on the acid attack against young women on their way to school Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan, reviews press footage about the incident in the East Wing at the White House. President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush stand with the recipients of the 2008 National Medal of Arts and Presidential Citizen Medal recipients in the Blue Room at the White House Monday, Nov., 17, 2008. Pictured from left, Henry 'Hank' Jones, Jr, jazz musician; Wayne Reynolds, president of the board of the Ford's Theatre Society; Stan Lee, legendary comic book creator; Paul Tetreault, director of the Ford's Theatre Society; Olivia de Havilland, actress; Carla Maxwell, artistic director of Jose Limon Dance Foundation; Hazel O'Leary, president of Fisk University and Paul Kwami, musical director for Fisk University Jubilee Singers; Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; Adair Wakefield Margo, chairman for the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities; Jesus Moroles, sculptor; and Robert Capanna, of the Presser Foundation.
President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush stand with the recipients of the 2008 National Humanities Medal in the Blue Room at the White House Monday, Nov., 17, 2008. Pictured from left, Thomas A. Saunders III, president, and Jordan Horner Saunders, Board of Directors, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems; Albert Marrin, author; Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, National Review; Harold Holzer, Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gabor S. Boritt, Director, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College; Milton J. Rosenberg, WGN Radio Chicago; Myron Magnet, editor, City Journal; Adair Wakefield Margo, Presidential Citizen Medal recipient; Robert H. Smith, president, Vornado/Charles E. Smith; Laurie Norton, Director and CEO, Norman Rockwell Museum; Bruce Cole, Presidential Citizen Medal recipient. Mrs. Laura Bush watches with children as a reenactor demonstrates rail splitting during her visit to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Site Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, in Hodgenville, KY.
Mrs. Laura Bush tours a replica Log Cabin of Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace during her visit to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, in Hodgenville, KY. Mrs. Bush is led on the tour by Ms. Sandy Brue, Chief of Interpretation and Resource Management, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site. Mrs. Laura Bush delivers her remarks during her visit to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, in Hodgenville, KY.
President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush smile as they participate Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, in the reopening of the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush is silhouetted against the renovated Star-Spangled Banner American flag exhibit Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, during his visit with Mrs. Laura Bush to the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The flag, which flew above Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the British attack in 1814, inspired Francis Scott Key to write the lyrics that became our national anthem.
Mrs. Laura Bush spends a moment with Ms. Robalba Robinson, a breast cancer patient recovering from recent reconstructive surgery, during a visit Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, to the National Oncology Institute in Panama City. Joining her is Mrs. Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos, First Lady of Panama, in pink, and Dr. Rosario Turner, Panama's Minister of Health. The man at right is unidentified. Mrs. Laura Bush participates in an informal discussion Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, during a visit to the National Oncology Institute in Panama City. With her are, from left: Ms. Maria Victoria Gonzalez, breast cancer patient; Mrs. Bush; Mrs. Vivian Fernandez de Torrijos, First Lady of Panama, and Ms. Silka Delgado, breast cancer patient.
Mrs. Laura Bush waves goodbye as she departs the National Oncology Institute in Panama City Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Earlier, Mrs. Bush announced the U.S.-Panama Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research. Breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death among women in Panama, with 40 out of 100,000 women diagnosed each year. Mrs. Laura Bush hugs a young girl after she was presented with a bouquet of flowers upon her arrival welcome to the San Clemente Health Center Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, in San Clemente, Peru. Mrs. Bush visited the center and participated in interactive demonstrations depicting community-based health training.
Mrs. Laura Bush and Ms. Nancy Quispitupa, Program Manager and Community Trainer, watch as 8-year-old William Sebastian Hernandez Jeri demonstrates learned hand-washing techniques Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, at the San Clemente Health Center in San Clemente, Peru. The center is the town's major health provider and serves an average of 80 patients per day. A very proud 8-year-old William Sebastian Hernandez Jeri holds up his hand to show how clean it is after demonstrating hand-washing techniques Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, for Mrs. Laura Bush at the San Clemente Health Center in San Clemente, Peru. Looking on is Ms. Nancy Quispitupa, Program Manager and Community Trainer.
Mrs. Laura Bush looks on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, as Ms. Maria Salguero Trillo, Community Health Educator Volunteer at the San Clemente Health Center in San Clemente, Peru, demonstrates how families are trained to treat contaminated water for safe drinking. In the town of 25,000, nearly 89 percent of the homes were affected by the August 2007, 8.0-magnitude earthquake.

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