{"id":26440,"date":"2006-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/06\/09\/nursing-student-meets-president-bush\/"},"modified":"2006-06-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T05:00:00","slug":"nursing-student-meets-president-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2006\/06\/09\/nursing-student-meets-president-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing student meets President Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/app1.unmc.edu\/PublicAffairs\/TodaySite\/Images\/SiteImages\/weatherlybush.jpg\" border=\"2\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\">Meeting President George Bush was an opportunity of a lifetime for UNMC nursing graduate student Rosa Weatherly. <\/p>\n<p>Bush was in Omaha Wednesday to promote his plan for immigration reform.<\/p>\n<p>Weatherly was among the crowd at Metropolitan Community College in south Omaha who listened to the president&#8217;s 30-minute speech on assimilation and then talked briefly to the fellow Texan. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an honor to meet and speak with him,&#8221; said Weatherly, president of the Nebraska Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. &#8220;It&#8217;s one of my top experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said the president was familiar with her hometown of Winters, Texas. &#8220;I was honored that he knew where my little hole-in-the-wall town was,&#8221; Weatherly said, noting the town in central Texas has approximately 2,880 residents.<\/p>\n<p>Weatherly told Bush she returned to Texas every couple of years. &#8220;You know what you&#8217;d find if you went home?&#8221; President Bush said. &#8220;It&#8217;s hot and dusty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weatherly, a master of science in nursing student in UNMC&#8217;s Health System Nurse Specialist program, said she&#8217;ll treasure Wednesday&#8217;s experience. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to put it into words,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I know he&#8217;s just a person, but he&#8217;s the President of the United States. 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