Michelle's gift to Laura Bush was a journal with a Louis L'Amour quote...

[ScreamingMeemie]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090120/Inauguration.Bush/

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In the morning, before having coffee at the White House, soon-to-be first lady Michelle Obama handed Laura Bush a present. Inside, was a leather-bound journal inscribed with a quote from western fiction writer Louis L'Amour: "There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning." Also in the gift box was a pen engraved with Tuesday's date, for Mrs. Bush to begin her memoirs, according to Mrs. Obama's spokeswoman Katie McCormick Lelyveld.

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That was a nice gesture.

[Minimus]

1. Michelle has class.

[gauguin57]

2. Those Obamas have class to spare.

That was sweet of Michelle.

[myrna minx]

3. What an elegant, personal and thoughtful gift, especially since it was given

to a woman who was once a librarian.

[Spazito]

4. A very thoughtful gift!

Certainly a quote very fitting for the day.

[Cha]

5. Very nice and an excellent choice

for a gift at this time..who wouldn't like that?

[Enrique]

6. threatening investigations?

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. I don't think so...

unless you're buying into the whole Western, Louis L'Amour thing. :D

[Bluebear]

8. That is one elegant gift! nt

[Justitia]

9. Pure class - and so very thoughtful a gift! -eom

[sundog]

10. nice

michelle is a beautiful lady :)

[Flying Dream Blues]

11. Such a thoughtful, gracious gift! She will do us proud in so many ways, especially in bringing

attention to helping military families.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Kick for the morning.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

13. When you watch the clip

of the Obamas arriving at the White House, you can see Laura immediately handing off the box to someone inside before she opened it. Hope she recovered it before they left for Texas. It would have been much classier for Laura to bring it on into the room wherever they were sitting down and open it in front of the Obamas. Just sayin'.