Laura Bush

Laura Lane Bush (née Welch) (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is the First Lady of the United States. She was named the second most powerful woman in the United States and the fourth most powerful in the world by Forbes magazine in 2004. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2004/08/18/04powomland.html

Early life

Laura Bush was born in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold Bruce Welch (1912–1995) and Jenna Louise Hawkins (born 1919) and her family was Democratic, as was almost everyone else in Texas at that time. She grew up in Midland and attended the same junior high school as her future husband (she did not know him at the time) and the same high school (Robert E. Lee High School) as Tommy Franks.

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Midland - Texas - Harold Bruce Welch - 1912 - 1995 - Jenna Louise Hawkins - 1919 - Tommy Franks

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In May 2000, a two-page police report about a fatal car crash caused by Bush when she was 17 was made public. The report says that on November 6, 1963 Bush (then Laura Welch) was driving her Chevrolet sedan with her classmate Judy Dyke. It was shortly after 8 {{PM}} on a clear night when Welch entered the intersection of U.S. Highway 349 and Texas Farm Road 868. Bush failed to observe the intersection's stop sign and collided into a Chevrolet Corvair sedan driven by her ex-boyfriend Michael Dutton Douglas, also 17. Bush and Dyke sustained minor injuries; Douglas was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. Welch was not ticketed or charged in connection with the collision.

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Car crash - November 6 - 1963 - Chevrolet - Sedan - Intersection - Stop sign - Chevrolet Corvair - Michael Dutton Douglas

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