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Barbara Bush offers glimpse into life with presiden
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Former first lady recalls
life in White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — Re
porters watching President Bush
speak at the home bases of
Desert Storm troops said the
president was
fighting off a
cold, biit Bar
bara Bush
knew better.
“That was
no cold,” she
wrote in her
diary Feb. 4,
1991. “He
was just so
moved.”
The diary
entry is
recorded in “Barbara Bush: A
Memoir,” in which the former
first lady offers a glimpse of life
with George Bush through his
12 years as president and vice
president and the couple’s ef-
Barbara Bush
forts to return to a more ordi
nary life in Houston after leav
ing the White House.
Mrs. Bush defends her hus
band at every turn and writes
bitterly about those who criti
cized him, but she acknowledges
that she disagreed with him on
two issues: She supports legal
abortion and opposes sale of as
sault weapons.
Mrs. Bush says, however, she
did her best to keep her opinions
from the public while her hus
band was in office.
Of her successor as first lady,
Mrs. Bush writes that Hillary
Rodham Clinton seems stronger
than President Clinton, which
she predicts will cause problems
for the president.
“I am afraid that when prob
lems or controversy occur, and
they will, the finger will be point
ed at Hillary,” Mrs. Bush says. “I
am not saying this is right or
wrong. It just occurs to me that
the American people also are go
ing through an adjustment.”
Even for a first lady who dis
tanced herself from policy-mak
ing, there was tremendous
stress in being married to the
president, especially during the
Persian Gulf War.
“For the last twelve hours I
have known something so
dreadful that 1 can’t even imag
ine it,” Mrs. Bush wrote in her
diary in January 1991, hours
before the United States began
bombing Baghdad.
“George told me last night
that they decided it would start
tonight. God knows they have
given Saddam every chance.”
The book includes passages
from Mrs. Bush’s diary along
with narrative describing her
childhood and life with Bush —
from their first meeting at a
dance, through his military ca
reer, campaigns and time in
Congress, the CIA, as vice presi
dent and president,
She also tells about the move
back to a private home in Hous
ton after 12 years of being
cared for by large staffs in
White House and vice presij
t’s house.
Remembering how to
was not a problem, Mrs.
says, but her first attempt
cooking after leaving the 111
House could make new
for “1 Love Lucy.”
dete
After an encounter wii
juicer that left carrots
from floor to ceiling, thefoi
president came in and
to worry, he had brought din
“He had made his first!
to Sam’s Club and boughi
world’s biggest jar of spa
sauce and some spaghetti.
Bush writes. But while clea
carrots, she broke the jar,
“That was the night
and 1 made an amazing di
ery. You can call out lor pi;
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Identical twins participate in AIDS research projec
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Rudy
Vasquez of Fort Worth, who has AIDS,
says he’s looking forward to a federal re
search project he’s been asked to partici
pate in, even if he doesn’t understand it.
Vasquez and his brother are among 12
sets of identical twins who are scheduled
to participate in a federal blood cell-shar
ing test. In each of the 12, one twin has
AIDS and the other does not.
“I feel like it’s helping other people, be
ing a part of research,” said Vasquez, di
agnosed with AIDS in 1992 after he was
hospitalized for weeks with a bout of
nearly fatal AIDS-related pneumonia.
“I hope it can benefit and help some
body else,” he said. “And, I hope it does
what they want it to do in my system.”
Vasquez, 32, and his brother, Ronnie,
leave Wednesday for the initial physicals
and screenings at the National Institutes
of Health of Health in Bethesda, Md., a
suburb of Washington, D.C.
Later, Rudy will be transfused with ge
netically treated immune-system cells
from his uninfected brother.
Under privacy guidelines, project offi
cials said they could not confirm the iden
tity of research participants.
The goal of the research is to learn hpw
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long T-cells live in the body of an individ
ual with AIDS, said Dr. Robert Walker,
principal investigator in the project for
the National Institutes of Health.
T-cells are a component of human blood
that are key to fighting infection. A
barometer of the overall strength of the
body’s immune system, the T-cell count is
about 800 in an average, healthy person.
Rudy Vasquez said last week his T-cell
count is “holding steady” at about 15, leaving
him prey to nearly any type of infection.
Walker’s research, which is about three
months old, genetically treats T-cells
drawn from the uninfected identical twin,
causing more of the cells to grow in a lab
oratory environment. The cells are also
“marked” so they can be tracked inside
the infected twin.
“Identical twins provide a simply ideal
ized model for reconstituting the immune
system,” Walker told the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram.
“Their immune systems are in fact
identical, and so when you transfer the
cell from one to the other, you don't have
the chance of rejection or of host diseases
— the two major problems usually found
in transplant experiments,” he said.
The National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, part of the
Walker’s home agency, is conducting
research with the National Center for,
man Genome Research.
The experiment could conceivablybti
Rudy Vasquez’s T-cell count.
“I'd he glad if it was just 500,” Vasij
said.
“But I’ve never let my T-cell
bother me. I worry about other t
What 1 can do — like that,” he said.
Fort Worth-based American Airli:
has offered to provide Rudy Vasquez minister of >
fare for the first visit.
“It sounds like important research 1 :
could benefit a lot of people,” said!
Kincaid, a spokesman with American
lines in Fort Worth.
in November, American received
cism for the way attendants tread
passenger with AIDS who used anIV
during a flight. American officials
apologized to Timothy Holless, who
arrested after he refused to disembark
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