Welcome to the Words Matter Library.

Welcome to the Words Matter Library.

I'm Adam Levine.

This week, as the country honors the life and legacy of the 41st Presidents of the United

States, George Herbert Walker Bush, we are proud to add 41, a portrait of my father,

by George W. Bush to the Words Matter Library.

The audible addition has the added benefit of being read by the author himself.

In the interest of full disclosure, I was honored and privileged to serve the author for

two years as Assistant White House Press Secretary.

So much like the book itself, this episode doesn't pretend to be objective.

On that note, let's listen to why the 43rd President decided to write this book.

A few months after we left the White House, Lauren and I invited Tim Lawson and his wife

Dorian McCullough Lawson to our ranch in Crawford, Texas.

I had commissioned him, a real artist, not an amateur like me, to paint some scenes of

the landscape we loved.

As Tim observed the nady prairie grasses and live oaks on the property, Dorian I talked

about her father, David McCullough.

I told her that a highlight of my presidency had been meeting her dead, to find historian

and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of John Adams.

After updating me on her father's health and projects, Dorian said you should know that

one of my father's great regrets in studying John Adams is there was no serious account

of him by his son, John Quincy Adams.

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