New book details final moments between George H.W. and Barbara Bush: “They gave each other permission — for her to die, for him to live.'
The couple sat in the den of their Houston home holding hands, according to author Susan Page.
“They gave each other permission — for her to die, for him to live,” Page writes. ‘“I’m not going to worry about you, Bar,’ George Bush told her. ‘I’m not going to worry about you, George,’ she told him.”Barbara Bush died two days later.The former first lady, who had long struggled with congestive heart failure and pulmonary disease, was 92. Her husbandTheir 77-year union made them the longest-married couple in presidential history.
George would go on to ask Barbara to his senior prom, where he kissed her on the cheek, “in front of the whole world," she would remember.“I floated into my room and kept the poor girl I was rooming with awake all night while I made her listen to how Poppy Bush was the greatest living human on the face of the earth,” Barbara Bush recalled in her biography.
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