With Antiwar Poetry Set, Mrs. Bush Postpones Event
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
ASHINGTON, Jan. 30 - Laura Bush has postponed a White House symposium on the
works of Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman after some of the
poets invited said they hoped to use the event to protest American military
action in Iraq.
Noelia Rodriguez, the first lady's press secretary, said the event,
originally planned for Feb. 12, had been designed to celebrate the written
word. "While Mrs. Bush respects and believes in the right of all Americans
to express their opinions," Ms. Rodriguez said today, "she, too, has
opinions, and believes that it would be inappropriate to turn what is
intended to be a literary event into a political forum."
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