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"An interview with Editor in Chief Ellen Levine  Ellen Levine: Since we&amp;#039;re coming up on Valentine&amp;#039;s Day, I wanted to talk a bit about romance. I know you and the President are about to celebrate your 25th anniversary. Is he still romantic? Do you still get to do romantic things together? Laura Bush: He&amp;#039;s pretty romantic. We like to go for rides at our ranch, before dinner. He&amp;#039;s a windshield cowboy, as he says, which means he drives a pickup. We drive down into the bottoms of the creekbeds and the riverbeds. And we do that nearly every time we&amp;#039;re there, nearly every day. And it&amp;#039;s really the only time we&amp;#039;re alone like that, in a car. That&amp;#039;s fun! EL: What about little things? Does he send Valentine&amp;#039;s cards? LB: No, he&amp;#039;s not very good about doing that. When I get flowers from somebody else, he loves to act like he&amp;#039;s the one who sent them. [Laughs]  But the nicest and most romantic gift I&amp;#039;ve ever gotten from him was when he gave the Laura Bush Promenade to the library at my college, Southern Methodist University. It&amp;#039;s actually the garden walkway into the library. And when I opened the gifts under the Christmas tree that year, there was a little porcelain copy of the Fondren Library Center, the library at SMU, and then a drawing of the garden promenade. EL: Has your love changed at all while you&amp;#039;ve been in the White House? LB: I guess you could say it&amp;#039;s deepened, in the sense that we get so much comfort from each other. And that we look forward to the end of the day, when we&amp;#039;re going to be with each other. Because that&amp;#039;s a time when we can relax. And I think there&amp;#039;s something about being with somebody you love that sort of dissipates some of the anxiety and uncertainty that you felt during the day. EL: Do you ever get into arguments with the President? LB: We seldom will argue anymore, I have to admit. Or fight like we might have in the early years of our marriage. I think because we&amp;#039;ve been married for as long as we&amp;#039;ve been married, we seldom have those arguments that we might have had earlier. EL: Do you remember what you used to quarrel about? LB: Before, what always made me mad was that I thought he was messy. Or we were getting ready to have a lot of people to dinner, and I didn&amp;#039;t think he was helping enough. But on the other hand, he also was very generous. He always took the clothes to the laundry, to the dry cleaners. He always did that. My clothes and his clothes. I never had to run that errand. I did nearly all the cooking, although he was famous for pancakes. Pancakes \u00E0 la George. Or the chopped-egg sandwich \u00E0 la George. EL: Something about men and pancakes. My husband does that too. LB: There&amp;#039;s something about pancakes that they like. Of course, I did put the batter together. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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