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Barbara Bush often joked that her successful life was a result of marrying well. Aware that she was not elected and carried no official duties, Mrs. Notably at the time, Mrs. Bush visited facilities for AIDS victims, held infected babies and hugged adults. Bush also came to the rescue of the Salvation Army in , when several Washington, D.

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Inspired by business leaders like publisher Harold McGraw, public officials like Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois, and other literacy advocates across the country, Mrs. Her literacy advocacy gradually expanded with her public profile. In , Mrs. Then starting as First Lady in , Mrs. Bush took the family literacy movement to a new level of national awareness when she launched the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, focusing simultaneously on early childhood education for preschoolers and adult literacy for their parents.

She also began Mrs. Bush's Story Time, a national radio program that stressed the importance of reading aloud to children. Bush and other advocates celebrated the passage of the National Literacy Act, which created the National Institute for Literacy and permitted the use of libraries and other municipal property as evening literacy centers for adults.

After leaving Washington, Mrs.