Profile
Barbara Bush
First Lady of the United States
Female
Born
Jun 8, 1925
Age
88
Hometown
New York
Religion
Episcopal Church ...
Alma Mater
Smith College
Barbara Pierce Bush is the wife of the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of the 43rd President George W. Bush and of the 43rd Governor of Florida Jeb… Read More
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Barbara Bush
Age 88
parents
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Pauline RobinsonMother, d.1949
children
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Robin BushDaughter, d.1953
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Douglas Kmiec: Are There Books In The Bush Library Any Non Fiction?The Huffington Post - Apr 26, 2013
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Barbara Bush: No More Bushes In White HouseSeattle Pi - Apr 25, 2013
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Barbara Bush Branch Library Event Schedule, May 7 22Houston Chronicle - Apr 23, 2013
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Barbara Bush Branch Library Event Schedule, May 4 May 28Houston Chronicle - Apr 10, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1925
Birth
Born on June 8, 1925.
TWENTIES
She met George Herbert Walker Bush at age 16, and the two married in 1945, while he was on leave during his deployment as a Naval officer in World War II.
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THIRTIES
1959
34 Years Old
While in Texas, in 1959, George Bush was elected Harris County Republican Party chairman, in the first of what would become many elections.
1964
39 Years Old
His first run for a prominent political office was in 1964, for U.S. Senator from Texas and although he lost, the exposure of the Bush family put George and Barbara Bush on the national scene.
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FORTIES
1970
45 Years Old
As the wife of a Congressman, Barbara immersed herself in projects that piqued her interest, included various charities and Republican women's' groups in Washington, D.C. Though her husband lost a second bid for the Senate in 1970, President Richard Nixon appointed him the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, which enabled Barbara to begin forming relationships in New York with prominent diplomats.
1973
48 Years Old
As the Watergate scandal heated up in 1973, Nixon asked Bush to become Chairman of the Republican National Committee; Barbara advised her husband to reject the offer because of the harsh political climate, but he accepted anyway.
1974
49 Years Old
Nixon's successor, Gerald R. Ford, appointed Bush head of the U.S. Liaison Office in the Peoples Republic of China in 1974, and thus the Bushes moved internationally.
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FIFTIES
Barbara Bush defended her husband's experience and personal qualities when he announced his candidacy for President of the United States in 1980.
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In 1984 she wrote a children's book about her family told from the point of view of her dog C. Fred entitled C. Fred's Story.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
In 1988 Vice President Bush announced his candidacy for President to succeed Reagan.
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1992
67 Years Old
During her husband's 1992 presidential campaign, Barbara Bush stated that abortion and homosexuality are personal matters and argued that the Republican Party platform should not take a stand on it, saying that "The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, platforms and conventions."
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2003
78 Years Old
On March 18, 2003, two days before the beginning of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, ABC's Good Morning America asked her about her family's television viewing habits; she replied:
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2006
81 Years Old
The remarks generated controversy. In 2006, it was revealed that Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush–Clinton Katrina Fund on the condition that the charity do business with an educational software company owned by her son Neil Bush.
In November 2008 Bush was hospitalized for abdominal pains.
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2009
84 Years Old
Bush underwent aortic valve replacement surgery on March 4, 2009; she was released from the hospital on March 13, 2009.
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