Editor,
I believe our president is ill. I believe him to be of failing health, both, physically and mentally. How else can one justify his current international actions?
As a parent and son, I strongly believe in “a mother’s love” as a form of healing. It is a medicine of the strongest sort. It is with this belief, I urge all Americans to join together in a peaceful campaign to help our president achieve health once again.
If everybody baked and sent, the president of the United States, a dozen of his mother’s famous cookies, so proudly revered during the 1992 Clinton-Bush presidential campaign, we can make him better. And perhaps then, he will stop this madness called war. A healthy president makes for a healthy country.
Below is Barbara Bush’s ‘Famous’ Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. I urge you all to bake and send them to:
George W. Bush
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, D.C., 20500
After all, a mother’s love is hard to replace.
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Barbara Bush’s Chocolate Chips
Makes three dozen (18 servings).
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 teaspoons hot water
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/8 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1. Beat butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and egg until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in hot water and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour, baking soda and salt, until well blended and smooth. Stir in chocolate chips.
2. Drop dough by well-rounded teaspoons onto greased cookie sheets. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 10 minutes, or until golden. Cool cookie sheet on a wire rack for one minute, then remove cookies to a rack to cool completely.
Todd E. Eddy
UNM staff
