Bush was one of only two women in American history to be both the wife and the mother of United States presidentsThe former US first lady Barbara Bush has died at the age of 92, a family spokesman has said. “Our souls are settled because we know hers was,” George W Bush said, adding that his mother was “a woman unlike any other who brought levity, love, and literacy to millions”. “As a wife, mother, grandmother, military spouse, and former First Lady, Mrs. Bush was an advocate of the American family,” the president said in a written statement. They had six children including the former president George W Bush and the former Florida governor Jeb Bush. As first lady from 1989 to 1993, Bush was an advocate for literacy and started the Barbara Bush Foundation to promote this goal.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2018 23:49 UTC