Show A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday February 28 2004 Q World & Nation Laura) I I to iraiso profile? ISwisHi (AP) — wife Bush's President doesn't ‘ like labels Even the title of first lady doesn't suit her “Too artificial’’ she says “I'd just rather be called careful not to appear to be for- g mulating White House although she says it hard for her to avoid it altogether “I live there right above the shop with the president" she said sipping water on a couch in the private quarters of her plane called Executive Fox Trot One “I’m very aware of a lot of different issues that are being discussed WASHINGTON policy-makjn- Laura Bush" It's not that she doesn't relish and respect her role and the platform to promote what interests her She just thinks it’s superficial maybe even plain wrong to typecast some- - -- ‘‘Sure make suggestions sometimes A lot of times I don’t But do I put in my two one She’s not ready to give her legacy a tag line either Hillary Clinton’s bumper sticker was “It Takes A Vil- ' cents? Sure” lage" Nancy Reagan's “Just reassuring words after the attacks Her picture Sept was splashed across newspa- pers when French President Jacques Chirac kissed her 1 1 hand in Paris She will be in the public spotlight more this year because of the presidential ' race and because she has expressed a desire her aides say to be more deeply involved discussing issues ' especially reading ' Generally though Laura Bush has kept a low profile “ the past three years She has raised awareness of heart dii ease especially in women urged the preservation of ' America's cultural and historic sites and talked about the plight of women who lived under the repressive Taliban rule in Afghanistan a nation she hopes to visit Education an issue that threads her life has been her trademark cause “My mother said she knew I’d become' a teacher when she heard me scolding my dolls for not paying attention" said the' former public school teacher and librarian who has promoted reading from California to Moscow “When it comes to getting ’ things done on behalf of children she takes the velvet hammer approach rather than the jackhammer approach" says Noelial Rodriguez the: first lady’s former director of v - - ' - - - Laura Bush has contributed more than pennies to the Say No" became synonymous with anti-dru- g campaigns “I probably don't have a catch word" Mrs Bush ‘told The Associated Press in an interview about life in the White House her rising visi- - ‘ bility in her fourth year as first lady and the role she will play in her husband's :campaign “But I hope that people will have a greater appreciation for reading and education when I'm through" Laura Bush was hailed as “comforter in chief” for her - I Bush-Cljen- ' ' AP photo First lady Laura Bush hugs Guadalupe Galindo 9 who gave the first lady a letter that Galindo wrote after she sat in on a class held by the reading intervention program at Limerick Elementary School in the Canoga Park area of Los Angeles early this month spokesman for Rosalyn Carter and Kitty Dukakis the former Massachusetts first lady whose husband was the 1988 Democratic presidential nomi-- s nee “Mrs Bush has simply chosen a quieter path" he Carl Sferrazza Anthony a historian and student of America's first ladies said Laura Bush's work has been eclipsed from the beginning by world events — much like Pat Nixpn ' was overshadowed by Water gate and Lady Bird Johnson by the Vietnam War On Sept 11 2001 the day Laura Bush was to make her policy debut testifying before said Laura Bush's White House phone is answered “Mrs Bush's office" not “Office of the First lady’-- ' That shows she has put her stamp on the position Costello says adding that he thinks Laura Bush has a lot of “character" and Congress onjarly childhood learning terrorists stuck “spunk" Asked who answers the phone when it rings in the middle of the night Laura Bush did not hesitate to take a playful shot at people who question the president's intellect! “We have phones oh both of the bed" she said sides sarcastically' “He actually can pick up the telephone He's actually very very competent in a lot of ways” ' America In February 2003 a literary symposium she was sponsoring was canceled after some poets planned to express their opposition to war with Iraq “Any time you have a president who is serving during war or at a time when he is being implicated in some kind of controversy you usually see the spouse walking an extremely cautious liiie” trea- ey sury now holding more than $150 million At events in 16 states she has raised more than $5 million since June 2003 She does not seem to mind the role of standing in the shadow of her husband whom she heaps high with praise “He does everything better than I do” she says “He’s a much better athlete he’s a much better card player he’s a much better Scrabble player" Who's better at the Spying at the UN a given some say LONDON (AP)— A former British ambassador to the United Nations said Friday he wouldn’t be surprised if countries engaged in spying at UN headquarters Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghasaid he always assumed ho was an espionage target And in Australia former UN chief weapons inspector Richard Butler said it was “plainly silly” to think his phone calls were not being monitored during his tenure The debate surrounding espionage at the United Nations deepened after allega- tions that Britain spied on UN officials before the Iraq war Clare Short former internali tional development secretary in Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet said Thursday she had read transcripts of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's conversations and that Britain had been spying on his office in the build-u- p to the Iraq war She quit her job last year over Blair’s Iraq policy and has since been a vocal critic of the prime minister repeatedly urging him to resign Blair has refused to confirm or deny Short’s allegation and branded his former minister “deeply irresponsible” for : commenting on sensitive security issues The United Nations warned that spying on Annan is illegal ' finances? “Oh he's much better at the finances” she said “I’m not a numbers person in the least" ' But don't mistake her loyal- ty for subservience says Regan Gammon good friends with Laura Bush since they were teenagers The first lady just doesn't feel the need to competewith her husband Gammon said “She’svery independent" Gammon said She’s very direct too While ' and said that allegations of happy to reiterate the presiBritish eavesdropping! if true dent's position on gay marwould undermine his work riage Laura Bush firmly Annan wants any spying declined share her personal activities stopped immediate- ' views on the- subject d ly UN spokesman Fred “Let’s just leave it at that" said she said Sir Crispin Ticket! Britain’s UN envoy from 1987-9- 0 said Short could have addressed her unease about the behavior of the secret services without going public “If there is a policy question which comes up about which you are uneasy there are different ways in which you can go round and say I am very unhappy about this” Tickell tola British Broadcasting Corp radio “You can move me from my job or you ' But can do whatever it is your prime loyalty is to your employer and indeed to the interests of the country" who was Boutros-Gha- li secretary general from 1992- 96 said he wasn't shocked by -- Short's claim “I was not surprised because from the first day I enter in my office they told ' me ’Beware your office is bugged your residence is bugged and it is a tradition that the member states that' have the technical capacity to bug will do it without hesita- said in a tion’” Boutros-Gha- li telephone interview with BBC radio “The best is thing is to find new technology to protect the secretary general to protect people' in the field of diplomacy against the possibility of being bugged" Boutros-Gha- li added “I believe that this ought to be done and to be done on a regular basis It costs money but it is important to protect them so that they will be able to do Eck-har- theirjob" Butler chief UN weapons inspector iri Iraq from 1997-9- 9 said Friday he was forced to go for walks in New York’s Central Park for confidential discussions with his contacts - Anthony said! 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