…from the NY Times….
Barbara Bush, the widely admired wife of one president and the fiercely loyal mother of another, died Tuesday evening at her home in Houston. She was 92.
Jim McGrath, a family spokesman, announced the death in a statement posted to Twitter.
On Sunday, the office of her husband, former President George Bush, issued a statement saying that after consulting her family and her doctors, Mrs. Bush had “decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care.”
The Bushes had celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary in January, making them the longest-married couple in presidential history.
Mrs. Bush had been hospitalized with pneumonia in December 2013. She underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer in 2008 and had heart surgery four months later.
As the wife of the 41st president and the mother of the 43rd, George W. Bush, Mrs. Bush was only the second woman in American history to have a son of hers follow his father to the White House. (Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, was the first.)….
image…pbs.org….
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She seem to have steel balls
And no problem saying what she thought…
She will be missed….
“I always knew Barbara was the most beloved woman in the world, and in fact I use to tease her that I had a complex about that fact. But the truth is the outpouring of love and friendship being directed at The Enforcer is lifting us all up. We have faith she is in heaven and we know life will go on — as she would have it. So cross the Bushes off your worry list.”
President George H.W. Bush
you previously said that GHWB was not to blame for his frequent groping of women because of his age. But yet he can still write so eloquently. Somethings doesn’t add up. Does it?
The quote is credited to him and I did not say he was not to blame for patting the bottoms of women and making a joke from his wheelchair. He shouldn’t have done it, but it is clearly understandable how awkward physical contact while taking photos from his wheelchair might have first been accidentally initiated and why he tried to explain away the awkwardness the way he did.
“Frequent groping of women” is not something that applies to him and regardless of what one thinks of his politics, be they on the far left or at the heart of the Trump alt-right, he deserves some sympathy at this time.
Whatever one thinks of their politics, more women have accused GHWB of unwanted touching than have criticized Clinton. I’m not defending Clinton. You shouldn’t be defending GHWB.
Hero worship dies hard.
Trump will skip Barbara Bush funeral, sending first lady……
Bil and Hillary Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama WILL attend the services….
Former President George H.W. Bush was hospitalized in an intensive care unit on Sunday, one day after his late wife Barbara Bush’s funeral…..
The Hill….
George HW Bush has been released from the ICU….
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