No one who has followed the Bush family over the years was surprised that the funeral service for former first lady Barbara Bush, who passed away last week, was gracious, joyful, bipartisan, straightforward and classy. Those qualities describe former president George H.W. Bush and his late wife of 73 years.
Let’s also remember that they governed as they lived. Historian Jon Meacham delivered one of the eulogies. Much remarked upon was this passage: “From the White House to Camp David to Walker’s Point, in hours of war and of peace, of tumult and of calm, the Bushes governed with congeniality, with civility and with grace.