We don't usually think of Laura Bush as firing anybody. She is just as loyal as everybody else in the Bush family. So I think it's very unusual.

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She is really not that guarded of a person in private, and I think she is more comfortable letting the public see some of that.

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She does not have to help that man get elected again, and that is very liberating. All first ladies have suffered under that. You know, the American people have all these expectations they voice on the first lady, in which she is supposed to be substantive, but not too substantive.

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She is saying, 'Look, I know you don't want to stay up very late but darn it, every once in a while, I want to have some fun people around, a little music, a little dancing, a little wine, a little more fun at night.' And he says, 'OK dear.' .

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He has said that Mrs. Bush wanted to set her own style, and he had tried to adapt and wasn't able to do that, so she is moving on.

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