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FIRST LADY SPEAKS AT PRESERVE AMERICA VISIT TO MOUNT ESTATE AND GARDENS

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From: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Date: 20060424
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The White House's Office of the First Lady issued the following remarks:

The Mount Estate and Gardens

4:07 P.M. EDT

MRS. BUSH: Thanks, everyone, and thank you, Barbara, for the very kind introduction and for everything you, and Stephanie and everyone with Edith Wharton Restoration has done for this historic estate.

Lord Tugendhat, thank you, and George Ramsden, thank you both very, very both for your contributions to The Mount. And thank you for traveling to join us here today.

I'd like to thank Janet Pumphrey, the chairman of your Board of Selectmen, for welcoming me here to Lenox.

I'm ...

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