Fifteen years later, when Barbara Bush's eldest son was president and I was seated beside him at the WHCA dinner head table, I related that story to George W. Bush.
In her autobiography, Barbara Bush, who had been dark-haired before her little girl got sick, wrote about the toll Robin's death took on her - and on her eldest child - and also how the tragedy bound she and George together.
"That started my cure," wrote Barbara Bush, who had baby Jeb to care for as well as a 7-year-old boy needing attention.
George Bush would be back at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and Barbara Pierce was ensconced at Ashley Hall in Charleston, S.C. The two smitten teenagers wrote letters, went on a double date during spring break, and shared a first kiss - their first-ever kiss, both always insisted.
Bush, who was the youngest fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy, named his planes Barbara I, Barbara II, and Barbara III. Two of them were shot down in combat, the second one leading to his harrowing rescue in enemy waters.
By the end of her life Barbara Bush knew she no longer fit the modern feminist ideal - and hadn't for some time.
"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal," Mrs. Bush said at the 1990 Wellesley College commencement.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/04/21/barbara-bush-had-a-life-well-lived/
In her autobiography, Barbara Bush, who had been dark-haired before her little girl got sick, wrote about the toll Robin's death took on her - and on her eldest child - and also how the tragedy bound she and George together.
"That started my cure," wrote Barbara Bush, who had baby Jeb to care for as well as a 7-year-old boy needing attention.
George Bush would be back at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and Barbara Pierce was ensconced at Ashley Hall in Charleston, S.C. The two smitten teenagers wrote letters, went on a double date during spring break, and shared a first kiss - their first-ever kiss, both always insisted.
Bush, who was the youngest fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy, named his planes Barbara I, Barbara II, and Barbara III. Two of them were shot down in combat, the second one leading to his harrowing rescue in enemy waters.
By the end of her life Barbara Bush knew she no longer fit the modern feminist ideal - and hadn't for some time.
"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal," Mrs. Bush said at the 1990 Wellesley College commencement.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/04/21/barbara-bush-had-a-life-well-lived/
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