Laura Bush says Reid comments were “graceless”

In an upcoming book, former First Lady Laura Bush says she was bothered on the occasions when Sen. Harry Reid called her husband a "loser" and a "liar."

The New York Times got its hands on a copy of "Spoken from the Heart," that is due in bookstores early next month.

In it, Mrs. Bush raps President George Bush's adversaries for "calling him names." She singles out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and also Reid, the Senate's Democratic leader, who famously called the president a "loser" and a "liar" on separate occasions.

“The comments were uncalled for and graceless,” she writes. “While a president’s political opponents, as well as his supporters, are entitled to make what they see as legitimate criticisms, and while our national debates should be spirited, these particular words revealed the petty and parochial nature of some who serve in Congress.”

Reid called Bush a liar in 2002 after the president signed off on designating Yucca Mountain in Nevada for nuclear waste storage, after saying he would let "sound science" guide his decision.

In 2005, he renewed the accusation after Bush told him he would stay out of a Senate fight over judicial nominations, but then didn't.

And speaking with students at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas in May 2005, he declared of Bush: "I think this guy is a loser."

Reid apologized later that day to Bush through the president's political adviser Karl Rove, and has since said he felt bad about the remark.

Not so calling the president a liar. Reid has said he thought he was justified in describing Bush as such.