President. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series first ladies influence and image. Tonight is the story of barbara pierce bush, the wife of our 41st president , George Herbert walker bush. And here for the next 90 minutes to tell us more about her life and her influence are two guests. Myra gutin is the barbara bush biographer, part of that first lady series weve turned to so often during this series this year. Shes a first ladies scholar, and she teaches at Rider University in lawrenceville, new jersey. Thanks very much for being here with us. Ms. Gutin my pleasure. Ms. Swain Jeffrey Engel is the founding director of the center for president ial history at Southern Methodist university. Hes the author of one book on george bushs Foreign Policy and at work on another one. Thank you for being here tonight. Mr. Engel good to be here. Ms. Swain now, we heard barbara bush at the outset talk about the fact that, when she became first lady, her words had much more were much more attentio
Cspan produced the series through the help with the White House Historical society. We tell the stories of americas 45 first ladies. Now barbara bush on first ladies influence image. This is about 90 minutes. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] did i feel prepared . Yes. I did notice the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the president s wife is huge because the Vice President s wife can say anything and nobody cares. The minute you say one thing as the president s wife, you have made the news. That was the lesson i had to learn. Barbara bush used the office of first lady to promote literacy and to raise awareness about aids and homelessness. She earned her way into the history books. She and Abigail Adams are the only women to be both a wife and mother of a president. Welcome to first ladies influence and ima
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