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Aspen Ideas Festival: First lady Laura Bush on empowering women and girls

Former first lady Laura Bush
Former first lady Laura Bush spoke June 27, 2016 at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, CO.
Dan Bayer | Aspen Ideas Festival

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Former first lady Laura Bush talks about her work to educate and empower women and girls in Afghanistan, Egypt and Tunisia. Mrs. Bush says when half a country's population is left out, it's a failed country. She spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival along with Mina Sherzoy, the founder of the Afghan Women's Business Federation.

Laura Bush is chair of the Women's Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas. The moderator was Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson, on June 27, 2016.