“In those awful seconds, the car door must have been flung open by the impact and my body rose in the air until gravity took over and I was pulled, hard and fast, back to earth,” she writes in her new book.

'She was a nice girl, she was always very friendly to me as a younger boy on the block.' But he also never forgot her wild driving-what he described as her 'two-wheeling.'īut in her new memoir, Spoken From the Heart, Laura Bush finally discusses the matter (though she acknowledged its impact on her in Ann Gerhart’s biography, The Perfect Wife). I would need to get permission from her.” in Midland for 25 years, she said quickly, “I’m not going to give you any information till I talk to Laura. During the 2000 election run-up, when I reached Billie Ruppe, who lived across from Laura’s family, the Welches, on Humble Ave. At the same time, the Bush family cautioned friends and former neighbors to be circumspect in their comments. For many years, the Midland city attorney and police department blocked the release of the police report of the accident, until lawyers for the tabloid The Globe successfully appealed to the state's attorney general. Bush’s staff prayed the details of her deadly crash would never emerge. With an assist from friendly Texas officials, George W. Urn:oclc:760177161 Republisher_date 20120426062028 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120424045609 Scanner the eight years of her husband’s presidency, the subject of Laura Bush’s role in a deadly car crash when she was a 17-year-old high school senior was considered off limits to the press. Urn:lcp:spokenfromheart00bush:lcpdf:c34f0b8c-ee4d-4338-a54b-de75b292a3ed Extramarc Princeton University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier spokenfromheart00bush Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9669k31g Isbn 9781439155202ġ439155208 Lccn 2010294161 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL24540136M Openlibrary_edition

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Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush