Lady Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification ; Pat Nixon encouraged volunteerism and traveled extensively abroad ; Betty Ford supported women's rights ; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities ; Nancy Reagan founded the Just Say No drug awareness campaign ; Barbara Bush promoted literacy ; Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reform the healthcare system in the U. S .; and Laura Bush supported women's ' rights groups and encouraged childhood literacy.

* November 16 – Luke and Laura marry on the U. S. soap opera General Hospital ; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.

He also worked on the scripts for the films Laura ( 1944 ), Brotherhood of Man ( 1946 ), Forever Amber ( 1947 ), and M * A * S * H ( 1970 ).

Signal Hill is in the 37th Congressional District of the U. S. Congress, represented by Congresswoman Laura Richardson ( D ).

* Laura Ling-Sister of Lisa Ling, former Current TV reporter and U. S. journalist detained in North Korea in 2009.

Garvey for the Stringer family: James M., Laura J., Rachel, and Sarah S. When originally established it consisted of just seventeen blocks with 246 lots.

United States Secret Service | U. S. Secret Service agents guarding the former First Lady Laura Bush

The event marked the dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial and was attended by U. S. President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker John Boehner.

* Toft, Jessica and Abrams, Laura S. " Progressive Maternalists and the Citizenship Status of Low-Income Single Mothers.

Andrews ' two signature roles came as an obsessed detective in Laura ( 1944 ) opposite Gene Tierney, and as a U. S. Army Air Force officer returning home from the war in the Oscar-winning 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.

Mwai Kibaki and Mrs. Kibaki with then U. S. President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush at the White House during a state visit in 2003

* " Little Sir Echo " w. Laura R. Smith m. J. S. Fearis

Monthly auditions were held in the U. S until January 1985, and Jane Krakowski, Yasmine Bleeth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marisa Tomei, Laura Dern, Ally Sheedy, Maddie Corman and Mia Sara all auditioned for the role.

He has also written a number of screenplays, including David Cronenberg's adaptation of M. Butterfly, John Madden's Golden Gate, and Neil LaBute's Possession ( co-written with Laura Jones and LaBute, adapted from the novel by A. S. Byatt ).

* Scott Shane and Tom Bowman with contribution from Laura Sullivan, " New book on NSA sheds light on secrets: U. S. terror plan was Cuba invasion pretext ," Baltimore Sun, 24 April 2001.

President of the United States | U. S. President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush arrived to Bagram Airfield in Air Force One on 1 March 2006.

Bates, John E., Brechwald, Whitney A., Hill G., Laura, Kenneth, Dodge A., Orrell-Valente, Joan K., Pettit, Gregory S. ( 2007 ).

Other notable journalists, editors and cartoonists on the staff of Sun papers include Richard Ben Cramer, Russell Baker, Michael Sragow, John Carroll, James Grant, Turner Catledge, Rodney Crowther, Price Day, Margaret Dempsey-McManus-McKay, Edmund Duffy, J. Fred Essary, Thomas Flannery, Jack Germond, Mauritz A. Hallgren, David Hobby, Gerald W. Johnson, Kevin P. Kallaugher ( KAL ), Frank Kent, William Manchester, sportscaster Jim McKay, novelist Laura Lippman, columnist and correspondent Thomas O ' Neill, Hamilton Owens, Drew Pearson, Phil Potter, Louis Rukeyser, David Simon, Raymond S. Tompkins, Paul W. Ward, Mark Skinner Watson, Jules Witcover, Rafael Alvarez and Richard Q. Yardley.

Through his sister Laura, Lee was an uncle to novelist William S. Burroughs.

Laura Bush announces a $ 60 million partnership between the U. S. Government and the Case Foundation at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York on September 20, 2006.

Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, she was a daughter of Harry Hays Morgan Sr, an American diplomat who was U. S. consul in Buenos Aires and in Brussels, and his half-Chilean, half-Irish-American wife, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick.

Other current columnists include H. Candace Gorman, Laura S. Washington, and Terry J. Allen.

Former U. S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipient John Lewis Gaddis on November 10, 2005 in the Oval Office at the White House.

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Highway incorporates U. S. 14 from South Dakota in the west to Rochester, Minnesota in the east, where the historic roadway continues on U. S. 63.

Laura Keene had been in the green room.

Laura Keene brushed by him with the glass of water.

Laura was sitting in an easy chair about eight feet away.

Then, gently, he shoved her behind toward Laura.

She lost not a second, picking herself up and continuing her pilgrimage to Laura.

Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.

Laura touched his hand.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

By comparison, Fritzie and Laura Andrus were quivering fledglings.

Their names had not come up in any discussions with Laura, and he had no idea what they would be like.

Just as exciting but in a more technically proficient way is Laura Stuart, whose complete control of her every movement is lovely to watch.

Laura is a good role for Miss Resnik, and she gave it force, dramatic color and passion.

Laura did not answer him.

Not even Laura.

* 1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

The mother of Napoleon, his consort Maria Louise ( as Concord ), to model whom the author made a further journey to Paris in 1810, the princess Esterhazy and the muse Polymnia ( Elisa Bonaparte ) take their place in this class, as do the ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, Beatrice and Helen of Troy.

* 1945 – Laura Spurr, American nurse and tribal leader ( d. 2010 )

During the next decade ` Abdu ' l-Bahá would be in constant communication with Bahá ' ís around the world, helping them to teach the religion ; the group included May Ellis Bolles in Paris, Englishman Thomas Breakwell, American Herbert Hopper, French Hippolyte Dreyfus, Susan Moody, Lua Getsinger, and American Laura Clifford Barney.

It was Laura Clifford Barney who, by asking questions of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá over many years and many visits to Haifa, compiled what later became the book Some Answered Questions.

Much that happened between Nora and Torvald happened to Laura and her husband, Victor, with the most important exception being the forged signature that was the basis of Nora's loan.

Ibsen wrote A Doll's House at the point when Laura Kieler had been committed to the asylum, and the fate of this friend of the family shook him deeply, perhaps also because Laura had asked him to intervene at a crucial point in the scandal, which he did not feel able or willing to do.

Euna Lee and Laura Ling had been imprisoned for illegally entering the country from China.

In 1550 Ammannati married Laura Battiferri, an elegant poet and an accomplished woman.