Former first lady Barbara Bush, 92, is in 'failing health' and has decided not to seek additional medical treatment. Family spokesman Jim McGrath announced on Twitter Sunday that Barbara Bush, the wife of one president and the mother of another, made the decision after consulting with her family and friends. Ref. USAToday.
Barbara Bush, former first lady, dies at 92
Barbara Bush, the matriarch of a Republican political dynasty and a first lady who elevated the cause of literacy, died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. She was 92.
Only the second woman in American history to have had a husband and a son elected President (Abigail Adams was the first), Bush was seen as a plainspoken public figure who was instantly recognizable with her signature white hair and pearl necklaces and earrings. She became a major political figure as her husband, George H.W. Bush, rose to become vice president and president. After they left the White House, she was a potent spokeswoman for two of her sons -- George W. And Jeb -- as they campaigned for office.
The mother of six children -- one of whom, a daughter, Robin, died as a child from leukemia -- Barbara Bush raised her fast-growing family in the 1950s and '60s amid the post-war boom of Texas and the whirl of politics that consumed her husband. Ref. CNN.
Have you all heard the deplorable remarks made by professor Randa Jarrar about Barbara Bush saying she is glad she is dead because she was a racist? I did not know she could have such a venomous hater.
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