First lady Laura Bush describes the theme for this year's holiday season, "A Red, White And Blue Christmas," Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, during a media preview at the White House in Washington.
First Lady Laura Bush shares a moment with Chief Florist Nancy Clarke as she introduces the 2008 holiday decorations in the East Room of the White House during a media preview December 3, 2008 in Washington, DC.
Q Is there something about the decorations you're going to miss most?Mrs. Bush: Well, I'll miss working with everybody. It's been so much fun over the years to work, especially with Nancy, to develop these themes, to figure out how we'll express these themes. And so it'll be the people, of course, that we'll miss the most.
A lot of the butlers that will be working at all these parties are men that we've known since we came here in 1989. Nancy, as I said, met us at the door when we came in 1989. So we have a really almost lifelong friendship with a lot of the people that work here, and I want to thank all of them, every one of them, for their friendship, for the way they take care of the President and this beautiful house.