welcome, lindy thoughts. [applause] is a distinct honor and privilege to introduce ms. laura bush. center eight years as first lady of the united states, ms. bush has continued her active involvement in key issues including education, health care and human rights. she recently hosted a conference on the needs of women at the newly opened george w. bush institute in dallas, where she directs her global and women's initiative project. mrs. bush's early career as a teacher and librarian in a particularly partial to that because my own wife is a teacher. her early career as a teacher like her and has helped shape her lifelong interest in literacy and education. during her tenure in the white house, she focused on early childhood development and is an enthusiastic proponent of teacher recruitment programs such as teach for america, the new teacher project and troops to teachers. and as first lady, mrs. bush helped launch the very popular library of congress first national book festival 2001, which continues over here and attracts hundreds of thousands of people to the mall every septemb

lindy murphy was at the game yesterday. >> the nationals just got done playing 20 games over a span of with a 10-10 record. they will get a much needed day off. they do it with momentum thanks to a walk-off home run in the tenth inning by willingham. >> willingham to left center ho. far? how far? game over. 4-3 nationals. >> when you are up at the plate, you can't be trying to do that or it usually doesn't happen. i was just trying to get a good pitch to hit and hit hard. and luckily i got it up in the air. >> nice to get on the plane way win. and we'll just relish this one. with an off day tomorrow, we've had 20 straight. we did have a rainout in there but 0 straight on the schedule trying to get to this point. >> we had our ups and downs during this little swing. can you see our team camaraderie we all come together. it is one big unit here and you can see something special is brewing. >> going into a big road trip, want to win a game like this and hopefully you can carry the emotion in the road trip. >> the nationals will return here to nats park on june 4th. that is when people man