The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

by Susan Page

he’s about to commit the United States to war. He wants the person in the room in whom he has the greatest trust to be there when he’s making one of the most momentous decisions of his presidency.’”

Periodically, however, Mom would walk in the room and say, ‘What’s it like to drive a car?’ And then walk back out. A few minutes later, she came in and asked, ‘How do you buy an airplane ticket?’”