Bush Aims to Ease Worries And Burnish Legacy
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You know, I'd like to say that annual jokes about FLOTUS' box during the State of the Union have become less funny as I've aged. I'd like to say that I've become more mature. I'd like to say that my sense humor has become more refined, and that I need not rely on toilet humor to entertain myself.

I'd like to say that, and I'd like for it to be true:

The White House filled the first lady's box with guests who exemplified progress: military personnel whose units have returned home from Iraq without being replaced; a homemaker who got help with her distressed family's mortgage through a government-brokered program; the city administrator of Greensburg, Kan., a place that was leveled by a tornado last year but is now on the way back; a Tanzanian woman who has been helped by an administration AIDS initiative.