Anyways, what did she really do during her 8 years as 1st Lady?
From Wikipedia:
"Though during her years in the Governor's Mansion, she did not hold a single formal event,[17] Laura worked for women's and children's causes including health, education, and literacy.[15] She implemented four major initiatives: Take Time For Kids, an awareness campaign to educate parents and caregivers on parenting; family literacy, through cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, she urged Texas communities to establish family literacy programs; Reach Out and Read, a pediatric reading program; and Ready to Read, an early childhood educational program.[15]
She raised money for public libraries through her establishment of the Texas Book Festival,[15] and established the First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative, which encouraged families to read together.[18] Bush further established "Rainbow Rooms" across the state, in an effort to provide emergency services for neglected or abused children.[15] Through this, she promoted the Adopt-a-Caseworker Program to provide support for Child Protective Services.[15] She used her position to advocate Alzheimer's disease and breast cancer awareness as well.
Early into the administration, Bush made it known that she would focus much of her attention on education. This included recruiting highly qualified teachers to ensure that young children would be taught well.[22] She also focused on early child development.[22] In 2001, to promote reading and education, she partnered with the Library of Congress to launch the annual National Book Festival. To promote American patriotic heritage in schools, she helped launch the National Anthem Project.
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Later in her tenure, she was honored by the United Nations, as the body named her honorary ambassador for the United Nation's Decade of Literacy. In this position, she announced that she would host a Conference on Global Literacy.[27] The conference, held in September 2006, encouraged a constant effort to promote literacy and highlighted many successful literacy programs.[28] She coordinated this as a result of her many trips abroad where she witnessed how literacy benefited children in poorer nations.
Another of her signature issues were those relating to the health and well being of women. She established the Women's Health and Wellness Initiative and became involved with two major campaigns. She first became involved with The Heart Truth awareness campaign in 2003.[29] It is an organization established by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to raise awareness about heart disease in women, and how to prevent the condition.[30] She serves in the honorary position of ambassador for the program[29] leading the federal government's effort to give women a "wake up call" about the risk of heart disease.[29] She commented on the disease: "Like many women, I assumed heart disease was a man's disease and cancer was what we would fear the most. Yet heart disease kills more women in our country than all forms of cancer combined. When it comes to heart disease, education, prevention, and even a little red dress can save lives."[29] She has undertaken a signature personal element of traveling around the country and talking to women at hospital and community events featuring the experiences of women who live, or had lived, with the condition.[29] This outreach was credited with saving the life of one woman who went to the hospital after experiencing symptoms of a heart attack.[29]
With her predecessor, former First Lady Nancy Reagan, Bush dedicated the First Ladies Red Dress Collection at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in May 2005. It is an exhibit containing red suits worn by former First Ladies Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Laura Bush meant to raise awareness by highlighting America's first ladies.[31] She has participated in fashion shows displaying red dresses worn on celebrities as well."
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