The Unknown and Underestimated First Lady,Barbara Bush: w/Susan Page, Bush's biographer.
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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USA Today DC Bureau Chief Susan Page discusses her biography of the powerful woman who was wife to one President and mother to another.
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| 1:03.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:09.8 | Her husband was a member of Congress, ambassador to China, ambassador to the U.N., director of the CIA, |
| 1:12.6 | vice president and president of the United States. |
| 1:13.8 | But who was she? |
| 1:15.2 | Most of us think of her as a nice old lady who just hovered in the background of George |
| 1:19.6 | H.W. Bush's career. |
| 1:21.6 | But Susan Page took a long look at Barbara Bush and came up with a totally different take. |
| 1:27.2 | In her new book, The Matriarch, Barbara |
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