Barbara Bush Dies: Literacy Champion and Political Matriarch
Barbara Bush died at 92, the matriarch of a political dynasty that produced two presidents and a governor. Her lifelong advocacy for literacy education through the Barbara Bush Foundation reached millions of disadvantaged readers, while she became only the second woman in American history to be both wife and mother of a president.
April 17, 2018
8 years ago
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