Barbara Bush is the most friendly first lady

Barbara Pierce Bush is the wife of the forty-first US President George HW Bush, the mother of George W. Bush, who became the head of the country four years after his father, and also Jeb Bush, who was governor of Florida.

Years of Youth

Barbara Bush was born in the New York maternity hospital on June 8, 1925. Her mother's name was Pauline Robinson (1896-1949), and her father was Marvin Pearce (1893-1969). My mother died in a car accident when Barbara was still quite young. The ancestor of Barbara's father, Thomas Pearce, was one of the first colonists in New England, as well as the ancestor of Franklin Pierce, who became the 14th president of the United States. Thus, Barbara is the niece of Franklin Pierce through four generations.

Early childhood Barbara Bush was held in the village called Rye, New York. There she went to primary school. Later, the girl continued her studies at the closed private school Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina.

A family

Barbara Bush in her youth was a very attractive girl. She met her future husband, George, at a Christmas ball. At that time she was only sixteen years old, and the future president studied at the Phillips Military Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Shortly before Bush left to fight in World War II, they got engaged. George Herbert Walker Bush was a pilot of the torpedo bomber of the US Naval Aviation. He named all his planes in honor of the bride: Barbara, Barbara-2 and Barbara-3. In December 1944 George came home on leave. Already in half a month, on January 6, 1945, they were married. After the war, Bush graduated from Yale University, then the couple moved to the Texas Midland. In 1953, their daughter Robin died from leukemia. This loss seriously affected Mrs. Bush's health, which made her very early gray. April 13, 2013 Barbara Bush, whose children have long grown, became a great-grandmother - her granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager gave birth to a daughter.

Children

The Couple Busha gave life to six:

1. George W. Bush, who was born on July 6, 1946 and later became the 43rd president of the United States, and governor in Texas.
2. Paulin Robinson Bush, commonly called Robin, was born on December 20, 1949 and died of leukemia on October 11, 1953.
3. John Ellis Bush, better known as Jeb, was born on February 11, 1953, is the 43rd governor of Florida.
4. Neil Mallon Bush, saw the light on January 22, 1955; businessman.
5. Marvin Pierce Bush, born on October 22, 1956, also runs his own business.
6. Dorothy Bush Koch, the youngest daughter, was born on August 18, 1959, engaged in public and charitable activities.

Personal life

Over the years of joint life, the Bush family has moved 29 times from place to place. George Bush Sr. achieved success in business and became the founder of the company Zapata Corporation. He occupied many different posts in the government. In 1989, Bush Sr. became 41 American President and held this position until 1993.

First lady

Barbara Bush was the first American lady from 1989 to 1993, when her husband was the US president. She flawlessly coped with this role. Its main task was to combat illiteracy among adult immigrants and representatives of other strata of American society. Barbara Bush actively participated in the work of various charities and foundations. Employees of the White House say that she was the most affable and sympathetic first lady of all whom they had to work with. Due to its kindness and non-conflict, it was also more popular among Americans than its predecessor, Nancy Reagan, and successor, Hilary Clinton.

After the White House

After the end of the presidential term of George Bush Sr., the couple moved to permanent residence in Houston, Texas.

On March 18, 2003, two days before the US invasion of Iraq by President George W. Bush, journalists from the "Good Morning America" program on ABC asked Barbara to tell him about what television shows her family watched. She answered:

"I do not watch television at all." He [former President George Herbert Walker Bush] sits and listens, and I read books, as I know perfectly well that 90 percent of what we hear on TV news is just speculation. Does not understand my scrupulousness in this matter.But why should we listen about coffins and corpses, about when it happened, and about the number of deaths, as well as about all the details of the incident and your assumptions on this matter? I mean, this The information is superfluous.So why I should score to myself similar eschami and suffer for it? "

In 2006, it turned out that Barbara Bush had donated some money to the Katrina Foundation, provided that this charity event was recorded on the account of the educational software company, owned by Neil Busch.

In November 2008, Barbara was hospitalized because of abdominal pain. On November 25, surgeons found a ulcer in Mrs. Bush's intestine the size of a 1-cent coin. She underwent a course of treatment and was discharged on December 2, 2008, the doctors' forecasts were quite optimistic.

A few months later, on March 4, 2009, Barbara successfully underwent an operation to replace the aortic valve.

On December 31, 2013, Mrs. Bush entered the Methodist Hospital in Houston in connection with a difficult breathing. Doctors identified the condition of Barbara as stable and allowed family members to visit her. The former first lady of the United States came to the same hospital in 2008 to treat an ulcer, and in 2010 returned there for a routine examination. On January 4, 2014, she was discharged from the hospital, and reporters were informed that pneumonia was the reason for hospitalization. They write that Barbara said: "I do not have enough words to express my gratitude to the doctors and nurses of the Methodist Hospital for the fact that I received the best treatment and very quickly returned to George and our dogs."

The name of Barbara Bush is given to several schools in the United States.