President George W. Bush and first lady buy Texas house

President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush will return to old friends and the familiar haunts of their former north Dallas neighborhood in January.

Laura Bush's press secretary, Sally McDonough, said Thursday that the Bushes purchased a home in the Preston Hollow area, where some of the wealthiest residents of Texas live in some of the state's most expensive houses.

The Bushes do not yet have occupancy of the house, so the White House would offer no further details, McDonough said. However, local property records indicate that Robert McCleskey, a Bush family friend from Midland, Texas, who has done accounting work for the family, recently bought an 8,500-square-foot house with a market value of $2.1 million on a cul-de-sac with about a half-dozen homes.

McCleskey said he could not say for whom the home was purchased.
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