The day the president came to Minnesota to stump for first-time congressional candidate Michele Bachmann, she let her mother talk her into “dressing like a lady would have in the 1940s or 1950s — that is, all dolled up.” “I listened to my mother; that’s what a dutiful daughter always does,’’ the Republican presidential hopeful writes in her new book, “ Core of Conviction ,’’ released on Monday. Which is how she wound up wearing a “deeply discounted” pink suit with matching pumps, purse and “over-the-top” gloves to meet George W. Bush in 2006. “Lose the gloves,’’ he told her in the limo, so she wouldn’t look silly in a photo of the two of them enjoying a summer treat of frozen custard from a roadside stand. Read full article > >

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