Laura Bush at the Museum Center

First Lady Laura Bush praised Rep. Steve Chabot as a man who can help her husband be successful in the last two years of his presidency.

At a luncheon fundraising event for Chabot in the basement of the Cincinnati Museum Center, the first lady rattled off a long list of what she said were Chabot's "great record of support and help for his district."

In the audience for the fundraiser were the families of four area servicemen who have lost their lives in Iraq.

The fundraising event raised at least $170,000 for Chabot, who is locked in a difficult re-election campaign.

After the lunch, Mrs. Bush, accompanied by Chabot, his wife and mother, did a walking tour of the Cincinnati Children's Museum, where the First Lady played with children and posed for dozens of photographs taken by the kids' mothers and fathers.