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Barbara Bush and the national literacy movement; includes related article on literacy in Japan
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The crusade against illiteracy.
Barbara Bush, a woman with a mission, uses all the influence she can muster in leading the way to what has now become a national literacy movement
J. T. Pace, the 63-yearold son of a former sharecropper from Mauldin, South Carolina, will never forget the day he met the wife of the Vice President of the United States. He had traveled to St. Louis last year to appear at the climactic moment of a three-hour live entertainment special on ABC-TV, a program celebrating the Fourth of July and the Bicentennial of the Constitution and promoting the cause of literacy. Barbara Bush had come to St. Louis as well. Because of her concern about the growing problem of illiteracy in America and her compassion for those afflicted by the problem, she had become the national leader in the literacy movement. That evening she was to walk out on a giant stage under the Gateway Arch to speak before a live...See the full content of this document
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