Laura Bush shops, dines during her trip to Atlanta
Laura Bush greeted hundreds of fans at her book signing. Staff photo by Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com
Former First Lady Laura Bush, in town for a book signing at the Buckhead Barnes and Noble store this week, made time for shopping and a little Southern comfort food during her time in Atlanta.
Mrs. Bush, who greeted hundreds of fans at the signing for her new memoir, “Spoken From the Heart,” stopped into a few antiques shops on Miami Circle in Buckhead, accompanied by a friend and her security detail, Buzz hears from a well-placed source.
After her visit to the book store, she dined at South City Kitchen in Midtown. She enjoyed the evening’s special, which was pan-seared Georgia mountain trout with summer squash-mirliton gratin, roasted tomato jam, arugula, lemon and extra virgin olive oil, as well as a side of succotash.
We understand she arrived about 8 p.m. and was seated at a table on the patio – not a private dining room. She was accompanied by Secret Service personnel, who feasted on burgers.
Mrs. Bush was joined by former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn. Southern cuisine enjoys bipartisan support, you know.
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84 comments Add your comment
Allen
May 20th, 2010
12:43 pm
What is a great lady like Laura doing with a brainless SOB like Nunn?
Tired of the RIght
May 20th, 2010
12:45 pm
True Patriot: You said “Then Mr. Drummond had her tell Arnold, Kimberly, and Willis to “Just Say No” and so they didn’t do drugs.”
It is funny you mention this because to prove you wrong the actress playing Kimberly, overdosed on prescription pills in 1994. Todd Bridges, who played Willis has battled cocaine addiction since the 80’s. Glad to see what a GREAT First Lady Nancy Reagan was…glad to see her campaign for a drug free America worked for us…
Ugh
May 20th, 2010
1:05 pm
Makes me wish I had voted for McCain—dang! #%^#@
TypicalTypical
May 20th, 2010
1:18 pm
Lynn Educator is typical of the teachers in this state and why the education of our kids is in the toilet.
Lynn Educator is more than willing to take time to spew hatred at a decent lady as she babbles on about Ladybird Johnson…Next Jackie Kennedy & Hillary Clinton who’s husbands thought so “much” about them they bedded every ‘ho that passed them in the hall.
Typical.
TypicalTypical
May 20th, 2010
1:20 pm
Sam Nunn is a very decent man. A democrat this state can be proud of very much.
Deb
May 20th, 2010
1:32 pm
I think that no matter how anyone feels about George W. as President, Laura Bush always carried herself with class and dignity….she is a true role model for women and seems like a very sweet lady!
Splavistic
May 20th, 2010
1:35 pm
Laura is by NO means the best first lady. (Michelle is on the way to gaining that title) She’s nice enough, but she let her husband make murderous decisions that have ruined this country without even batting an eye. Oh, that is until she writes a book about her “differences” with her husbands views. NOW she tells us. Geesh!
Elizabeth
May 20th, 2010
1:37 pm
Especially when Laura Bush confessed that she DISAGREED with her husband on abortion and gay marriage only AFTER he left office.
What an honest woman! Puhleez! More like Stepford Wife.
BBro
May 20th, 2010
1:39 pm
Probably Lynn the Ex-Fired so called Educator with ignorant comments like that. I sure hope there’s not other teachers out there teaching with her type of outlook on good people.
Kapoonka
May 20th, 2010
1:40 pm
I don’t trust or like anyone who laid in bed with George Bush. Her face lift gives her a permanent “Joker like” smile. Didn’t she drive George to drinking? …..Geeez…can she “relate” to urban youth? Did she really stop kids from joining gangs? Ya’ll are dreaming. What a bunch of horse poo..and who cares what the heck she ate?
Yourboss
May 20th, 2010
1:59 pm
All you Democratic whiners need to get a job and stop complaining about your version of past events. Time will tell how wise your Prez is, and you’ll be begging for some responsible leadership again.
dwight
May 20th, 2010
2:10 pm
succatash!!!!! don’t that have corn in it? ohhhh lawd
LoserLiberal
May 20th, 2010
2:29 pm
Street Smart,
If you are street smart then I am glad to not be, who singed NAFTA into law? Since you are “smart”, that being relative, you should know it was Clinton, what does that have to do with Bush? Loser! I am betting you think Michele Obozo is a nice lady, did you know that she was the key figure in the development of the hospital shuffle? Yes that is where “to save money” they would send critically ill patients without insurance to other hospitals. Did you know people died from her “saving money”? Even better did you know that she ”demanded” a salary of $200,000 to be Obozo’s wife? Now that is a crappy, I mean classy wench, I mean lady..
tv viewer
May 20th, 2010
2:48 pm
Look at her – all smiles, life is beautiful, everything is great, nothing could be better!! Could it??
How much has she done during their 8 years to stop all these unprecedented frauds that only politicians can get away with? Starting with fixed elections, through 9/11, and other attacks caused by our great evergrowing “involvement” in other countries’ business, and ending with many piling domestic problems, that her hubby was just ignoring.. But wait – it was us who reelected him, so we have to be accountable for our own stupidity. Well that is what we deserve, and will be paying deerly for years, and years, and years…
Rich
May 20th, 2010
3:02 pm
I gag every time I see her. She reminds me of everything that was fake in the 1950’s. I can’t stand women like her.
dave
May 20th, 2010
3:19 pm
steet smart – have you checked out what YOUR President and first lady had to eat last night? You’re one biased dude, but then again, my folks who still support Obama are, they have to be or they’d have seen the light.
Carolyn
May 20th, 2010
3:31 pm
Lynn Educator, you wouldn’t know class if it bit you in the you know what! Laura Bush has more class in her little finger then Mrs. Obama has in her whole body! LIBERAL!!! Enjoy your ride cause it’ll be over come November!
Southern style and grace !
May 20th, 2010
3:44 pm
I agree, Mrs. Bush is a classy person. My her book do well.
johnson
May 20th, 2010
3:50 pm
I’m glad Mrs. Bush enjoyed her visit to the ATL. Knowing now that she holds positions that diverge from her husband – particularly related to social issues – I’d say she’s a classy lady and I look forward to reading her memoir.
street smart
May 20th, 2010
4:08 pm
DAVE My Pres didnt cause the economic meltdown that left so many unemployed and foreclosed upon, broke and hungry. Its bad enough he has to fix the mess the Bu$h dynasty got us into but now you want him to go into his own pocket and give his money to the people Dubya screwed over. In Nov if the Rethuglicans do take over then they can finish screwing over the middle class the way they did when Dubya took office. Thats a good boah Dave, vote the way Drugs Windbaugh and FIXed NEWS tell you to without question. Palin in 2012 yawl. Pathetic!
True Patriot is an IDIOT
May 20th, 2010
4:10 pm
Get your head out of the sand. Before, during and AFTER Nancy Reagan people did drugs, just like absentience & the young unmarried teens were not having sex. I guess Palin was for absentience with here daughter that had the baby out of wedlock. GET REAL!! What planet are you on because it couldn’t possibly be EARTH. Nancy Reagan along with her husband Ronald Reagan were two of the worst people in the White House after Tricky Dicky aka Nixon.
Forgot to Mention.....
May 20th, 2010
4:12 pm
Dumb (Bush) & Dumber (Cheney)
street smart
May 20th, 2010
4:22 pm
LOSERLIBERAL—–You are one scareyduse. Quick stick a finger down your throat and up chuck all that drugs Windbaugh Kool Aid you have been drinking. It never ceases to amaze me how much drivel you will swallow by the biased right wing media. You probably think that off shore drilling is still economically friendly and that there are still WMDs.You can point fingers and scream the sky is falling the sky is falling all you want there isnt 1 shred of evidence to substantiate anything you claim about the Obamas. Ive heard Lindbaugh, Hannitty and OReilly (youre main source of info) say whenever they get caught lying time and time again that no one should take what theyre saying seriously because all it is is entertainment. So are you. Go back to Pee Wees Playhouse now, OOPS I mean FIXed NEWS.
HippityHop
May 20th, 2010
4:26 pm
Always love positive reinforcement of the reason I have nothing but disdain for liberals.
street smart
May 20th, 2010
4:28 pm
KAPOONKA—-YOU ARE THE MAN.
nunnya
May 21st, 2010
9:56 am
I think President Obama and President Bush both married up!
UGH
May 23rd, 2010
1:11 pm
Would have been nice to know BEFORE she was here, AJC. You’re always behind!
The Hard Truth
May 28th, 2010
12:51 pm
To “Lin Educator”, I bet you are as black as soot. Michelle Obomination is far from a great first lady. Can you say “cleaning staff”?
Danielle
May 28th, 2010
6:05 pm
Who cares about ONE Bush!!!!!
Danielle
May 28th, 2010
6:08 pm
To the hard truth:
The blacker the berry – the sweeter the juice. By the way, God made Blacks so you had better be careful because he might make you paler than a ghost!
Thomas Paine
May 29th, 2010
7:55 am
Lynn Educator is teaching your children. Be afraid……… very afraid. Talk to your kids each day to set them straight about the propaganda with which the public school system tries to brainwash them. Mine, I am proud to say, understand that our first seven presidents made a far greater contribution to this nation than Che Guevara and Cesar Chavez. They know that the jury is still out on man-made climate change and that nations cannot spend themselves rich (i.e.: The War on Poverty, The Great Society, and The New Deal). My kids didn’t learn any of this from Lynn Educator or any other public school propagandist our tax dollars are wasted on.
Be Nice
May 30th, 2010
10:12 pm
Michelle O. all the way!!
I voted for Obama
June 2nd, 2010
3:27 pm
I’m sorry but Michelle Obama does not dress the part of a First Lady. She shows way too much skin. The White House and the Presidency are very conservative institutions and much respect should be shown. Michelle Obama is The First Lady and should dress like one not like she is going to an Oscar Awards Show. Washington not Hollywood.
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