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Barbara Bush Dubious ComplimentBarbara Bush (who had schools, hospitals, and streets named in her honor) once recalled receiving a touching letter from a six-year-old girl. "Dear Barbara," it read. "Great news. I've named my heifer after you!"
[Barbara continued to receive periodic updates about the progress of the cow, which was later entered in a cattle competition in Houston. Barbara was thrilled to learn that she had finished eighth. "Can you imagine the headlines?" she said. "'Barbara Bush Wins Fat Stock Show'!"]
[Trivia: "George Bush just became president," Richard Belzer joked in 1988, "and his wife's already on the dollar bill."]
Bush, Barbara (1925- ) American former first lady, wife of U.S. President George Herbert Bush
[Sources: "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" - Nov. 2003]More Barbara Bush anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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