Barbara Bush, Wife of 41st President and Mother of 43rd, Dies at 92
Source: NY Times
Barbara Bush, the widely admired wife of one president and the fiercely loyal mother of another, died Tuesday evening. 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 see 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.)
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/us/barbara-bush-dead.html
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them." - regarding Hurricane Katrina victims in the Astrodome.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)She is now neither more nor less than all those who passed before her, and those yet to pass. In death, there is no privilage.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)I'm not one of them, though (but I don't have to be).
forgotmylogin
(7,529 posts)She was a tough lady who loved her family.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)But my sympathies to the Bush family
geomon666
(7,512 posts)NNadir
(33,523 posts)One might have said that she gave birth to the worst President of the 21st century but regrettably for our country, GWB is off the hook.
As horrible as it is to contemplate, there is actually someone worse than GWB.
I kind of wonder how this country can survive having had two terrible Presidents in the birth of this century. Perhaps, because their horro shows were divided by a President of grace and intelligence that neither come close to matching, we have a chance of getting through.
A comforting thought is that the country survived Franklin Pierce and the actual worst President of the 19th century, James Buchanan.
Of course, 600,000 Americans died to make it survive and it also took a Lincoln to see that through. We may need one, but can't expect one either.
Lincolns I think, are hard to come by.
She should have died hereafter. There would have been time for such a word.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)try as i might I've never felt any fondness for the Bushes.
meh. I'll stop myself there.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)On with my evening.
Kaleva
(36,307 posts)mia
(8,361 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)question everything
(47,483 posts)iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)I actually LOLed.
Demonaut
(8,918 posts)Coventina
(27,120 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)IF I GIVE A DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)will help others to do the same. That would be a legacy that would help temper the negatives.
She must have realized that she was sick of suffering without any hope for better days. Many people suffer needlessly in this country, they should be able as she did to say no more. That never give up shit is not always right.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I worked at a hospice in San Diego in the late 1990s and it was not uncommon then/there.