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The year after their marriage, the couple began campaigning for George W. Bush's 1978 Congressional candidacy.

According to George Bush, when he asked her to marry him, she had said, " Yes.

But only if you promise me that I'll never have to make a campaign speech.

" She soon relented, and gave her first stump speech for him in 1978 on the courthouse steps in Muleshoe, Texas.

After narrowly winning the primary, he lost the general election.