Barbara Bush Quotes
My worst expectations never happened.
Bush, Barbara. Barbara Bush: A Memoir. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.
Commenting on the Democratic Presidential Convention of 1988:
This was the worst storm that hit the East Coast that anyone could remember. The East Coast Governors together with the Federal and local governments performed magnificently keeping the fatalities very low considering the ferocity of the storm and the tens of millions of people affected, With all the destruction, there were no storm caused fatalities in Atlantic City.
Barbara Bush was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 as the wife of George H. W. Bush, who served as the 41st president of the United States, and the founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. She previously was the second lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Among her six children are George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd governor of Florida. She and Abigail Adams are the only two women to be married to one U.S. president and the mother of another.