Take my husband, please

Washington, D.C.

First lady Laura Bush stole the show at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last week by mercilessly ribbing her husband. She said that President Bush was such a greenhorn when they bought their Texas ranch that he tried to milk the horse. “What’s worse,” she said, “it was a male horse.” The first lady said she and her husband were “complete opposites. I’m quiet, he’s talkative. I’m introverted, he’s extroverted. I can pronounce ‘nuclear.’” She also said she was a “desperate housewife” because the president—“Mr. Excitement”—was sound asleep by 9 o’clock every night. “I said to him the other day, ‘George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you’re going to have to stay up later.’”

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