How I lived 72 of the year with George W. Bush: the former first lady told about her marriage
'07.04.2018'
Source: The Daily Mail
“I'm still old and still in love”: Former First Lady Barbara Bush shared rare and intimate details of a marriage that has lasted more than 72 years, with special warmth about her husband.
92-year-old woman shared her feelings with Smith College's Alumnae Quarterly magazine, stressing that he still loves the same man whom she married tens of years ago, writes The Daily Mail. Barbara left college in 1944 Smith and two weeks later she got married. In 1989, the college awarded her an honorary degree. In the same school, by the way, she studied Nancy Reagan, graduating in 1943 year.
Bush recently joined nine other 1947 alumni in an interview with a local magazine, with a full page photo and Barbara's own signature: “I had excellent medical care and more surgeries than you might believe. I'm not sure God will recognize me; I have so many new body parts! ”.
Barbara speaks fondly of her spouse: “George W. Bush gave me the world. He is the best - thoughtful and loving. "
The couple served as President and First Lady of the United States from January 1989 to January 1993. Although Bush did not mention her five children and 17 grandchildren by name, the mother and grandmother said that she is very proud that all her children are working and “serving others - each by - to his own ”.
Long marriages are the calling card of the family. The couple's eldest son George has been married to his wife Laura since 1977 to this day, Jeb's second son has been married to Columba since 1974, and the youngest son Marvin and his wife Margaret went down the aisle in 1981. All marriages are flourishing to this day.
Over the years, Bush periodically supplemented a publication about graduates, first reporting the birth of Jeb’s second son in 1953, telling about family life in New York in 1972, when George W. Bush served as US ambassador to the United Nations. In 2015, she left another note that her 90-year-old husband had serious health problems.
“My precious George was in the hospital and, thank God, has already been discharged. We have five of the best children in the world - they all became givers, caring people, she wrote. “Being 90 is difficult, as many of you know, but with a loving, close family, almost anything can be lived through.”
