Institute programming. i hosted in march the u.s. afghan women s council, because i want to continue working to support afghan women and to make sure that they can that, you know, the taliban doesn t reverse their progress they ve been able to make so far. so this was a conference that i hosted that focused on literacy for girls and women in afghanistan. larry: the library will be at southern methodist? at smu. uh-h uh-huh. larry: that s your alma mater, right? that s my alma mater, right there in dallas on central expressway in mockingbird. i think it s going to be great. larry: how is it progressing? very well. we should break ground in november. the architect is working on the construction plans right now and they re due in october. so we re excited. we ve already started a lot of the programming that has to do with the institute. we hosted a couple of weeks ago a cyberdissidents conference, for dissidents around the world for the ways they can use the internet to get
that s right. it will be part of the bush library that will be at smu. we ve already started the institute programming. i hosted in parr the u.s. afghan women s council, because i want to continue working to support afghan women and to make sure that they can that, you know, the taliban doesn t reverse their progress that they ve been able to make so far. so this was a conference that i hosted that focused on literacy for girls and women in afghanistan. larry: the library will be at southern methodist? at smu. larry: that s your alma mater, right? that s my alma mater, right there in dallas on central expressway in mockingbird. larry: how is it progressing? very well. we should break ground in november. the architect is working on the construction plans right now and they re due in october. so we re excited. we ve already started a lot of the programming that has to do with the institute. we hosted a couple of weeks ago
larry: one week from tonight we have mick jagger. first, we welcome back laura bush. her new book is spoken from the heart. a terrific read published by scriptners. you were such a private first lady. wasn t this hard for you to do? it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted it to be very candid. i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a lot of gaps that what reporters asked me about, all those eight years we were there, you know, didn t cover some of the things that were in this book. so i had a great time writing it. i went back home to midland when i started it. my mother still lives there, and went by all those houses my dad built. and the houses george and i lived in, and the schools we went to. larry: lived your life over. that s right. and i really did there is something cathartic about it. i saw things really for the first time with my vantage point, now, at my ag
one week from tonight we ve got mick jagger here for the hour. right now we welcome back former first lady laura bush to larry king live. we spent many hours together. her new book is spoken from the heart. a terrific read published by scriptners. you see its cover. you were such a private first lady. wasn t this hard for you to do? it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted to be very candid, i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a lot of gaps that what reporters asked me about, all those eight years we were there, you know, didn t cover some of the things that were in this book. so i had a great time writing it. i went back home to midland when i started it. my mother still lives there, and went by all those houses my dad built. and the houses george and i lived in, and the schools we went to. larry: lived your life over. that s right. and i really did and there s something really cathartic about it. i saw things re
Youthful. it was popular in my youth. larry: how do you account for their popularity? they have a sound people like and charisma that appeals to people. larry: we have a funny item from the book. the royal family is not without its quirks. when prince charles and camilla duchess of cornwall came to visit us, they requested glasses of ice before we began a long receiving line. the staff dutifully produced them and the prince removed a flask from his pocket and added to each a small splash of what i presume was straight gin so that they might be fortified before the hour or more of shaking hand hands. i just presumed it was straight gin. yon what it was. it wasn t water. larry: what next? you re working on the bush institute? that s right. we already started the institute programming i hosted in march,