OT: RIP Barbara Bush

[EricSD]

Grace and class. Only one other woman in history was the mother of one President and the wife of another. Quite the legacy...

Barbara Bush passes

 

[Blue Huskie]

Awesome woman. Classy and strong. RIP.

 

[UConnNick]

A great lady and a great American.

 

[JordyG]

Grace and class. Only one other woman in history was the mother of one President and the wife of another. Quite the legacy...

Barbara Bush passes

Well said and a fine article.

 

[meyers7]

We could use more strong women like her. RIP.

 

[ChicagoGG]

A warm, wonderful woman, who worked tirelessly for literacy, AIDS awareness and many other causes. A fine First Lady, but an even better wife, mother and person. RIP, Mrs. B. You will be missed!

 

[Bronx23]

We could use more strong women like her. RIP.

We also could use more strong men like her!
Bronx23

 

[ME Husky Fan]

I'm fortunate to live in Kennebunk and get to see the impact the Bush's have on the community. Regardless of where one resides politically you can't minimize what the family has done for us here in southern Maine. I had some time off from work in the summer of 2015 and walked the Kennebunk beach every morning and there was Mrs. Bush, with the dog and the Secret Service in tow blending in with every other morning beach lover. That blending-in was precisely hers and the family's hallmark. RIP..

 

[JellyBean]

Classy lady indeed.

 

[UConnNick]

I'm fortunate to live in Kennebunk and get to see the impact the Bush's have on the community. Regardless of where one resides politically you can't minimize what the family has done for us here in southern Maine. I had some time off from work in the summer of 2015 and walked the Kennebunk beach every morning and there was Mrs. Bush, with the dog and the Secret Service in tow blending in with every other morning beach lover. That blending-in was precisely hers and the family's hallmark. RIP..

A lot of people don't realize that the house in Maine was from her family, not his. Her family was far more prosperous than the Bush family. They eventually bought out the last remaining relatives of hers that owned an interest in that property, but didn't completely assume full ownership until toward the tail end of his term as President.