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‘I have no fear of death’: Barbara Bush on faith and finality

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.”

She said she looked forward to being reunited with deceased family members, including her daughter Pauline Robinson “Robin” Bush, who died of leukemia when she was 3.