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The effects of being functionally illiterate extend beyond the printed page.
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First Lady Barbara Bush reads to schoolchildren.David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images, FILE
Former first lady Barbara Bush’s foundation is partnering with the city of Houston to increase the city s jaw-dropping adult literacy rates.
“One in three Houstonians functionally illiterate, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a press conference last week announcing the partnership. The combined efforts of the Mayor s Office for Adult Literacy and the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation are essential to achieve transformational change in the lives of adults who cannot read.”
bush 41 cabinet. elizabeth dole, served in the cabinet. they kept a very tight group come up part of it was through the points of light foundation. part of it through the barbara bush literacy foundation. you have the library down at college station, all of that working together to keep these bushies in contact. they stayed in touch with each other sometimes through colleagues, to the networks professionally. but really there is a friendship at the family that takes place in any administration. i think you could really see that here tonight and you ll see it over the next couple of days as well. joint staff passing by as well. dana, thank you. let s go back to juan williams who was standing by and watching all of this with
president george h.w. bush has been moved out of intensive care. he is now an irregular recovery room where according to his spokesman, he s joking with folks at the hospital and saying he s more concerned with the upcoming rockets playoff games and anything that s going on with him or his health. according to his son, he said he s a stronger than an ox. we know he wants to get to maine this summer. we hope he is able to do that as well. all of that brings us to this great story behind the colorful socks covered with books that everyone noticed at barbara bush s funeral because he wore them as a tribute to the first ladies passion for fostering literacy. as a gift to him, my next guest who was selling hundreds of those socks and all the proceeds are going to the barbara bush literacy foundation. here now is john cronin, chief