Laura Welch Bush
H: What's it like for you being a private citizen?
L: Well, it's great, really is nice.
Enjoy our home in Texas a lot.
We have a new house and getting furniture.
And I had a lot of fun working on that.
We are both working on our memoirs, writing our memoirs
and then we are also building the presidential library.
H: How's President Bush doing?
Is he glad to be out of the spotlight?
L: He is doing very well. Thank you for asking.
He is riding his mountain bike a lot like that.
He's very disciplined about writing his memoirs.
In fact in everyday... (Shame you?) Yes, a lot better than me.
He is always a lot more disciplined that I am.
So he's working on those.
I keep telling him
that I have got the second grade in our memoirs.
H: How do you think the world will remember him?
L: I think the world would remember him for really what he is.
And that's why I think people will get to see both
from his memoirs and from mine.
And that is somebody who stood for freedom
and who stood for the security of our country
and I think people know that,
I think the people really know him,
know what he is like and they see what he stood for.
That's the freedom of 50 million people
in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
H: Many around the world would say that
he stood for divisiveness and destructiveness.
L: Well, I would say that's absolutely not right.
And I don't think they have either the right view of him
or what his responsibilities are and were
as president of United States.
H: Do you think he is doing a good job, President Obama?
L: I think he is, he's got a lot on his plate.
And he's tackled a lot, to start with.
That's probably made it more difficult.
H: How do you think Michelle Obama's doing?
L: I think she's doing great.
H: What strikes you, you know,
you have been there, you have seen her...
L: I saw her in the funeral,
Ted Kennedy's funeral last weekend
asked her about the girls and how they are doing,
and I know what she is doing.
You know, toward every woman
who moves there in that strive to make it home,
both for her husband who's the president and for her children.