The Heart Truth® Red Dress Collection and First Ladies Red Dress Collection.

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Since October of 2010, the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum's Ansary Gallery has had 12 celebrity red dresses and 13 First Ladies’ red dresses on display. This dress collection is called "The Heart Truth® Red Dress Collection and First Ladies Red Dress Collection.”

The Organization: The Heart Truth® is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Dresses: From the Red Dress Collection Fashion Show, held annually in New York City, the Red Dress Collection is a compilation of twelve dresses worn by Dara Torres, Lee Ann Womack, Danica Patrick, Valerie Bertinelli, Paula Zahn, Robin Roberts, Christie Brinkley, Heidi Klum, Allison Janney, Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, and Katie Couric.

From the 13 Presidential Libraries of the National Archives and Records Administration, this collection, originally initiated by The Heart Truth® Founding Ambassador Laura Bush, the First Ladies' Red Dress Collection highlights some rarely seen gowns, including a dress belonging to Jacqueline Kennedy. Other featured First Ladies also include Lou Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush.

Other Components: There will also be educational interactives and information about heart related issues such as high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, obesity and healthy lifestyles. These were birthed out of an unprecedented partnership with the Texas A&M Health Science Center. Visitors will enter an emergency room bay and learn how to resuscitate a heart attack victim. Another station will teach how to hear heart and breath sounds. There will also be risk screenings for diabetes, body mass index, and heart disease due to smoking.

This exhibit is available for viewing from now until August 14, 2011. For the hours of operation and admission costs click here.

Next time you are in College Station, book a room at Rudder Jessup B&B and then drive the 6 minutes to George Bush Library and check out this great collection!

I’m off to go do some cardio to get my heart pumping…