U.S. Relations With the People's Republic of China (2008)

The White House

For Immediate Release
Office of the First Lady
November 14, 2008

Mrs. Bush's Remarks at the Coming Up Taller Awards Ceremony

East Room

9:36 A.M. EST

MRS. BUSH: Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to the White House. It's so great to see you all this morning. This is one of my favorite events, the Coming Up Taller Awards. I love to be able to highlight terrific youth programs that are going on around our country, and now with our new partnerships around the world, as well.

This is my last Coming Up Taller program here at the White House. I've told my friends, Adair, that I'm on sort of the tour of the last of everything right now. (Laughter.) But this has been so much fun. It's been really terrific to be involved with the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities. I want to thank all of the board members here from the President's Committee for your great outreach both in the United States, finding and identifying these terrific programs that help young people, as well as reaching out to people in Mexico and China, and now Egypt. So it's very exciting to have Egypt as our new partner in the Coming Up Taller Awards.

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Mrs. Zhou -- Mr. Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese Ambassador to the United States. Where are you, Ambassador? I saw you when we came in. Right over there. Thank you, Ambassador, very much.

Minister Cai Wu, the Minister of Culture from the People's Republic of China, thank you, Mr. Minister, for joining us today.

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