Heidi Alexander: “I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a copy of my remarks from earlier today at the Barbara Bush…”

“I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a copy of my remarks from earlier today at the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's Conversation on the Future of Adult Literacy. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY Mr. ALEXANDER. I'm glad to be invited to join the conversation on adult literacy and to do as my late friend Alex Haley used to say, ``Find the good and praise it,'' especially about Barbara Bush. Tomorrow, one of the speakers you're going to hear, Jon Meacham, just finished his book, a biography of George H. W. Bush, and had the extraordinary opportunity to go through the personal diaries of Barbara and President Bush going back to the 1960s. I don't know any other biographer who's had that kind of access to that much material. The name of the book is ``Destiny and Power.'' I have a friend in Nashville who says that a better name for the book would be ``The Last Gentleman.'' I think an even better name for the book would be ``The Last Gentleman and His Lady,'' and perhaps the best name for the book would be ``The Last Gentleman and His Very Independent Lady'' because as we all know Barbara Bush was and is a very independent lady. I know that from experience.…”