Barbara Bush had spent an hour talking about legacy and family — about the Christmas dance where she met the man who’d become her husband, about being “the enforcer” of a family that included two former U.S. presidents.
It was 2013 and Bush was 88 at the time of the interview, part of a C-SPAN series focusing on first ladies. She wore a pink blazer and her trademark faux pearls — and spoke with a mixture of grace and bluntness that her family and the American people had come to instantly recognize over the past four decades.
“And I don’t have a fear of death for my precious George or for myself because I know that there is a great God.