Kwassniewska, Jolanta, 189, 264, 265, 266
Kwassniewski, Aleksander, 264-65
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence), 58
Lafayette, Marquis de, 171, 400-401
Laney, Nelda and Pete, 142
Lauder, Ronald, 189
Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries, 345-46, 369
Lea, Tom, 246
Leachman, Holly, 394
Leahy, Patrick, 219
Learning Leaders, 213-14
Lee, Robert E., 79
Leno, Jay and Mavis, 233
Leon, Luis, 268-69
Leonardo da Vinci, 188, 228
Lerangis, Peter, 293
Letterman, David, 307
LeVias, Jerry, 78
Lewis, David Levering, 281
Lewis, Suzanne, 402
Liberia, 296, 360-64, 418
Library of Congress, 180, 194, 401
Life, 346
Limerick, Patricia, 281
Lincoln, Abraham, 98, 121, 176, 185-86, 222, 224, 225, 243, 246, 274-75, 282-83, 297, 332, 347, 386-87
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 164, 224, 297, 387
Lincoln, Willie, 224, 225
Lineweaver, Lindsey, 311, 316, 367
Little Women (Alcott), 41
Liu, Madame, 372, 373
London subway bombings (2005), 327
Longfellow Elementary School, 82-84, 87-88, 142, 289
Lott, Trent and Tricia, 289, 347
Lu, Zheng-Huan, 274
Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi, Sheikha, 396, 397
Lustig, Arno, 16-17
Lynch, Jessica, 287
McBride, Anita, 311, 312, 313, 315, 347, 367, 399, 425, 429
McBride, Timothy, 413-14
McCain, Cindy, 160, 305
McCain, John, 156, 305, 420
McCleskey, Robert, 48, 49
McClure, Dede, 425
McConnell, Mitch, 172
McCullough, David, 271, 272
McCullough, Rosalee, 271
McDonough, Sally, 399
McGuinness, Cheryl, 304
McGuinness, Tom, 304
McMurtry, Larry, 143
McPherson, James and Patricia, 271
McQuillan, Laurence, 199
Madison, Dolley, 164, 168, 266
Madison, James, 169, 171, 243, 266
M'dl, Dalma and Ferenc, 258
Mae La Refugee Camp, 416, 417-18
Mae Tao Clinic, 416-17
Magruder, Elaine, 136, 309
Mahon, George, 84-85, 98-99, 100
Main Street Program, 141-42
Major, John, 177
Make Way for Ducklings, 260
malaria, 333, 376-78, 391, 408, 422
Malaria No More, 377
Maliki, Nouri al-, 373
Malini, Srini, 105, 107-8
Malveaux, Suzanne, 322
Malvo, Lee Boyd, 272
Mamo, Jeanie, 244
Mansfield, Mike, 386
Margo, Adair, 37, 406
Marine Corps, U.S., 177, 218, 242, 244, 265, 286, 305, 359, 361, 362
Marine One, 192, 217, 235, 368, 426
Marriott, Bill, 345
Martin, Robert, 406
Martin, Sheila, 300
Martinez, Adrian, 219, 245, 403
Marty (LWB's dog), 23
Matsuura, Koichiro, 293
Maugham, Somerset, 46
Maung, Cynthia, 416-17
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 395
Medecins Sans Frontieres, 376
Medina, Carlos, 310
Medina, Fidel, 175
Meet the Press, 91
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 278
Merkel, Angela, 300, 415
Mesnier, Roland, 191, 243, 298, 381
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 183-84
Mexico, 10, 36-37, 98, 193-94, 273
Meyers, John, 200, 203
Middle East, 276, 279, 319, 325, 395-400, 432
Midland County, Tex., 101-2, 116-17
Midland High School, 54, 56, 57, 58, 66-67, 405
Midway Island, 387-89
Military Child Education Coalition, 280
Miller, George, 247
Millie (Barbara's dog), 167, 299
Miss Beazley (LWB's dog), 310, 360, 402
Mitchell, Margaret, 58
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, 13-17
Mitterrand, Francois, 146
Mkapa, Anna, 331
Moe, Dick, 175
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 248
Molefe, Florence, 375
Molly Dawson Elementary School, 93, 95, 142
Monde, Le, 207
Monroe, James, 171, 213, 221, 360
Monsoor, Michael, 288
Moore, Ann, 346
Morris, Thomas, Jr., 219, 230
Morse, Ann and Joe, 30, 50
Moscow Summer Olympics (1980), 233
Moss, Vance and Vince, 376
Mothers2Mothers, 329-30
Mother Teresa, 368, 416
Mubarak, Hosni, 324, 325
Mubarak, Suzanne, 181, 323-25
Muhammad, John Allen, 272
Munn, Bill, 177
Munn, Kelly, 177
Munn, Lynn, 122-23, 177
Musharraf, Pervez and Sehba, 369
Myers, Lisa, 302
Nabel, Elizabeth, 379
Nader, Ralph, 61
Nafisi, Azar, 359
Nagin, Ray, 338
Napolitano, Janet, 426
Nast, Thomas, 274-75
National Association of Women Judges, 294
National Book Festival, 180, 193, 194, 197, 230, 272, 294-95, 345, 365, 423
National Cathedral (Washington, D.C.), 174, 208-9, 265
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 342
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 157, 405
National Fallen Firefighters Memorial, 217
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), 228-29, 265
National Geographic Society, 226, 377
National Governors Association, 140-41, 179-80
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 61-62
National Museum of American History, 248, 267-68
National Museum of Women in the Arts, 125, 251
National Park Foundation, 402-3
National Press Club, 231-32
National Security Council (NSC), 193, 324, 400
National Trust for Historic Preservation, 175, 423
Native Americans, 18, 113-14, 121, 122, 150, 153, 287, 405
Nau, John, 175
Nazi Germany, 13-17, 189, 218, 278, 292
Nazir, Farahnaz, 253
Needlman, Robert, 375
Nelson, Bill, 106, 394
Nelson, Grace, 394
Nelson, Pam, 106, 144
Neruda, Pablo, 411
Newsome, Leon, 260
New Yorker, 300
New York Times, 187, 281, 351
New York Times Magazine, 351, 385
Ney, Elisabet, 172
Nigeria, 130, 361
Nirschel, Paula, 300-301
Nixon, Richard M., 92, 93, 100, 222, 419
Nixon, Tricia, 223
No Child Left Behind Act (2001), 247
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The (Smith), 187
Noor, Queen of Jordan, 252
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 16-17, 188, 192, 273, 404
Nour, Ayman, 324
Obama, Barack, 420, 426, 429
Obama, Michelle, 426
O'Connor, Sandra Day, 352
O'Keeffe, Georgia, 40, 142
Oklahoma City bombing, 200
Oliphant, Susie, 167
Olmert, Aliza and Ehud, 415
Olson, Barbara, 202
Olson, Ted, 202
Omar, Mullah Mohammed, 242, 257
Onderdonk, Julian, 246
104th Infantry Division, U.S. ("Timberwolves"), 11, 13-14, 182, 404-5
O'Neill, Jan Donnelly, 90, 94-95,
96, 102, 118, 246, 410
O'Neill, Joe, 49, 73, 90, 94-95, 96, 102, 108, 118, 246, 410
O'Neill, Kevin, 49, 73, 90
Operation Homecoming, 405
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 256-57
Paige, Rod, 247
Pakistan, 248, 254, 256, 258, 317, 367, 369
Palestinians, 322, 325
Palin, Sarah, 307
Pape, Jean, 408
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963), 176
Pataki, George, 179, 211, 212, 215
Pataki, Libby, 215
Payne, Marshall, 345
Peace Like a River (Enger), 249-50
Peacemakers, The (Healy), 176
Pearl, Adam, 258
Pearl, Chaim, 403-4
Pearl, Daniel, 248, 257-58, 403-4
Pearl, Judea, 248, 403-4
Pearl, Mariane, 248, 257-58
Pearl, Ruth, 248, 403-4
Pease, Elisha M., 139
Pedro Pan (Peter Pan) airlifts, 268-69
Pelosi, Nancy, 290, 384-85, 386, 410
Pelosi, Paul, 290, 385
Pentagon, 195, 200, 201, 207, 208, 218, 225-26, 231, 244, 248-49, 252, 254, 269, 279
Perini, Tom, 197, 235, 275
Perlman, Itzhak, 120, 389
Perot, Ross, 129
Perry, Anita, 167-68
Perry, Rick, 167
Pfeiffer, Joseph, 268
Pfeiffer, Kevin, 268
Phelps, Michael, 419
Philip, Prince, 295, 389
Pickens, Madeleine and T. Boone, 344
Picturing America, 406
Piestewa, Lori, 287, 288
Poland, 189-90, 264-65, 266, 284, 292
Pollard, Jonathan, 321
Porter, Katherine Anne, 264
Potasnik, Joseph, 231
Powell, Alma, 370
Powell, Alvy, 308, 409
Powell, Colin, 264, 268, 327, 370
Powell, James, 176
Powell, Rusty, 228, 229
Preserve America Communities, 175
Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), 204-5, 311
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 328-34, 391, 408
President's Malaria Initiative, 377-78, 391, 408
Presley, Elvis, 53, 373
Prey, Barbara, 298
Proctor, Barbara, 282
Proctor, Mike, 48, 78, 282, 299
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 71-72
Purucker, Jane, 76, 79
Putin, Vladimir, 190, 230, 235-37, 242, 247, 260-62, 273, 292, 294
Putina, Lyudmila, 230, 235, 236, 242, 272, 293-94, 300
Putina, Maria and Yekaterina, 273
Radice, Anne-Imelda, 406
Ramon, Ilan, 279
Rania, Queen of Jordan, 181, 216, 319, 320, 415
Rather, Dan, 237
Reach Out and Read National Center, 375
Read All About It! (L. Bush and J. Bush), 84
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafisi), 359
Reagan, Nancy, 165, 176, 194, 228, 249, 265, 266, 307, 310, 347, 348
Reagan, Ronald, 102-3, 119, 121, 126, 159, 177, 184, 247, 249, 310
Red Cross, 250, 253, 329, 340, 341
Red Dress Project, 379, 380
Reece, Jim, 100
Reid, Harry, 278, 385, 386
Reid, Landra, 385, 386
Reid, Richard, 245, 248, 278
Republican National Convention: of 1980, 103; of 1988, 125; of 2000, 158; of 2004, 303-4
Republican Party, 99, 100, 103, 112, 125, 128-29, 152-64, 179-80, 185, 212, 273-74, 281, 289, 290, 303-4, 311, 383, 420
Revolutionary War, U.S., 266, 400
Reyes, Diego and Wendy, 411
Reynolds, Gabby and Mercer, 173
Rice, Condoleezza, 173, 193, 204, 209, 235, 256, 263, 297, 310, 327, 361, 389
Richards, Ann, 129, 133, 140, 233
Ridge, Michele, 191
Ridge, Tom, 191, 210-11, 212, 245
Rieff, Susan, 152
Robert E. Lee High School, 54-57, 58, 66, 71-72, 78, 94, 126, 405
Roberts, Robin, 353
Rockefeller, Jay, 277
Rockefeller, Laurance, 402
Roe v. Wade, 302-3
Roman (LWB's dog), 22
Roosevelt, Alice, 223
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 164, 297-98, 372
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 177, 204, 205, 218, 221, 222, 223, 247, 251, 273-74, 347, 380, 422
Roosevelt, Theodore, 159, 221, 222, 223, 251
Rose, Deedie, 127, 154, 168
Rose, Lela, 168
Rose, Rusty, 127, 168
Rove, Karl, 175, 310-11, 429
Rubenstein, David, 308
Rumsfeld, Donald, 254, 368, 382
Rumsfeld, Joyce, 254
Russert, Tim, 91
Russia, 260-61, 278, 284, 292, 293-94, 394
Rusty (LWB's dog), 22
Rwanda, 331-34, 377-78
Ryan, Nolan, 133
Sabah, Rasha Al-, 398
Sale, Russell, 228, 229
Salvation Army, 340, 430
Sandburg, Carl, 224, 423
San Jacinto Junior High, 47, 49-50, 51, 54-58
Santamaria, O. J., 286
Sarabi, Habiba, 300, 335, 413, 422
Sarkozy, Cecilia, 400
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 391, 400, 401, 415
Saturday Night Live, 306-7
Saudi Arabia, 128, 319-20, 325, 397-98, 412
Sauer, Joachim, 300, 415
Saunders, Dave, 204
Save a Child's Heart, 376-77
Save America's Treasures, 175, 423
Sawyer, L. E., 102
Scaasi, Arnold, 194
Scarborough, Dorothy, 20
Scharbauer Hotel, 17, 18, 115
Schieffer, Bob, 305
Schieffer, Tom, 127, 305
Schroeder, Gerhard, 285
Secret Service, U.S., 128, 157, 164, 165, 174, 192, 197, 198, 200, 201-4, 212, 227-28, 230, 231, 243, 244, 245, 260, 262, 267, 285, 297, 307, 311, 315-16, 322, 366, 372, 373, 391, 408, 430
SEED School, 358
Senate Spouses Lunch, 289
Senate Women's Caucus, 393
Senegal, 327-28
"September 11: Bearing Witness to History" exhibition, 267-68
September 11 attacks (2001), 195, 197-218, 225-28, 241-42, 248-49, 254, 262-63, 264, 267-70, 284, 291, 293, 295, 304, 311, 339, 374-75, 419, 422
Sesame Street, 324, 368
Shakespeare, William, 58, 91, 357, 405
Sharon, Ariel, 322
Sheets, Morris, 100
Sherrard, Eva Louise LaMaire, 31-32, 77
Sherrard, Joseph, 31-32
Sherzoy, Mina, 315
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 405
Shugart, Karen, 260
Shultz, George, 164
Siddiqi, Muzammil, 209
Sierra, Ruben, 167
Singh, Mahmohan, 108, 368-69
Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson, 360-62
60 Minutes II, 300
Skimin, Robert, 143
Slade-Sawyer, Penny, 102, 106, 118, 216, 249
Slovenia, 190, 415
Slutkin, Gary, 356, 358
Smalley, Robin, 329, 330
Smith, Alexander McCall, 187
Smith, Gwyne, 39, 52, 53, 75
Smith, Paul Ray, 287
Smith, Ursula, 281
Smithsonian Institution, 184, 245, 248, 430
sniper attacks (2002), 271-73
Somalia, 263, 356
South Africa, 328-30
South Carolina, 152, 156
Southern Baptist Convention, 340
Southern Methodist University (SMU), 74-81, 116, 128, 158, 172, 184, 432
South Korea, 277, 416
Soviet Union, 190, 232-33, 278, 292, 310, 313, 315, 317-18
Spanish-American War, 176
Spann, Johnny Michael, 242
Spectrum 7, 115
Spellings, Margaret, 197, 247, 312, 363
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bsp; Spot (LWB's dog), 140, 147, 167, 193, 203, 205, 210, 243-44, 284, 299
Sprinkle, Ron, 197, 260, 267
Stahl, Leslie, 103
Stapleton, Craig, 127, 259, 271
Stapleton, Debbie, 127, 259
Star, 156
Steagall, Red, 359
Steinbeck, John, 54
Steinbrenner, George, 229
Stephens, Charles, 106
Stern, Robert, 358-59
Stevens, Robert, 219
Stine, R. L., 293-94
Stoddard, William, 225
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 78
Sullivan, Ed, 41, 52-53
Supreme Court, U.S., 73, 163, 303, 352, 405, 410
Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation, 128, 258, 395
Sutton, Sam, 175
Suu Kyi, Aung San, 392-94, 410
Suzanne (9-11 victim), 210
Sweden, 188-89
Switzer, Anna, 214
Taft, Charles and Robert, 223
Taft, William Howard, 223
Taiwan, 372
Taliban, 212, 217, 219, 233-38, 242, 251, 255, 257, 312, 317-18, 414-15
Tanzania, 330
Tate, Willis, 81
Tatu (Rwandan girl), 333
Taylor, Charles, 361-62
Taylor, Dick, 56
Taylor, Gene, 347
Teach for America, 180, 226
Temple of Gold, The (Goldman), 58
Ten Bears, Chief, 121
Terra Museum of American Art, 194
terrorism, 216, 245, 248, 256-57, 264, 271-73, 294-95, 304, 384
Texas: Big Empty of, 94; climate of, 18-20, 26-27, 40, 44; economy of, 113-16, 419; education in, 38, 82-88, 93, 143-45; Hill Country of, 92, 149; LWB as first lady of, 134-46, 167-68, 169, 180; oil industry in, 16, 17, 21, 24, 26, 27, 43-44, 73, 74, 77, 113-16, 131, 144, 419; prairies of, 151-52, 155, 431; racial segregation in, 54, 72-73, 78-79, 82-83, 87-88; ranching in, 20, 21, 26, 115, 121-22, 154; temperance movement in, 11, 36, 44, 52, 116-19; West, 9, 18-20, 24-25, 30-31, 44, 46, 73, 98-100, 113-15, 121-22, 131, 151-52, 153
Texas, University of, at Austin, 74-75, 154, 157, 158, 172, 262, 301-2
Texas, University of, Humanities Research Center of, 144-45
Texas Book Festival, 143-45, 162
Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy, 37, 73-74, 365-66
Texas Rangers baseball team, 126-27, 129, 130, 133, 151, 167, 182, 214, 305
Texas Tech, 23, 77, 101
Texas Western University, 37, 365-66
Thailand, 295, 307-8, 404, 416-18
Thatcher, Margaret, 177, 360
Thigpen, Kenyatta, 351, 352-53
Thirteen Days, 365
Tibet, 359, 381
Time, 162, 245
Today, 168, 329
Tonkawa Indians, 150
Tornabene, Andy, 241
Transition Coordinating Council, 425-26
Troops to Teachers, 180, 218
Truman, Bess, 164, 221, 223, 273
Truman, Harry S., 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 247, 266
Truman, Margaret, 223
tsunami (2004), 307-8, 338, 359, 376, 410
Tubb, Richard, 382
Twain, Mark, 143-44, 250, 280, 281, 423
Tyler, John and Letitia, 224