Barbara Bush Quotes
One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
Bush, Barbara. Barbara Bush: A Memoir. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.
That was true for Maryland even in modern times. Originally the only Catholic founded colony until modern times had been the buffer between the Southern States and the Northern. In the Civil War, Maryland was filled with passionate advocates for both sides.
This and other quotations like {640617} and {640615} show that the State Department knew that Mobutu Sese Seko, the man we were backing in the Congo had many very undesirable characteristics for a dependable foreign ally and one who should be given control of billions of American money. Yet nothing was done and we continued to support him despite the kleptocracy and the instability that undermined his regime and the United States along with it.
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.
