strategist. she advised three generations of bushes politically, her husband, her two sons, one who became president. she was on the campaign trail, though, with jeb bush all the way till the end of that brutal, brutal primary campaign. and i sat at a table with her right after the 2012 failed presidential campaign of mitt romney where she was slicing and dicing what had gone wrong in that national political contest and dispensing advice to george p. bush, who was on the ballot for statewide office in texas. and she had more political savvy than anyone i had ever worked with in national politics. but i think what has everybody, you know, she s 92. i deep hearing that. for people that know the family, her health has been of much graver concern to people than his since the summer of 2016. and so even though people should have been prepared, this is such a blow. she was the beating heart of everything the bush family demanded of the people in it and of the people around it. and it wasn t
graver concern to people than his since the summer of 2016. and so even though people should have been prepared, this is such a blow. she was the beating heart of everything the bush family demanded of the people in it and of the people around it. and it wasn t just about blind loyalty. it was loyalty to all that was good about public service, to all that was good about working in the republican party. and i think there s a whole generation of us who thought we were republicans when in reality, we were bush family loyalists. john meacham, a family of nobles oblige. a family, most of all, of public service. she married into that notion. i guess she got a strong hint when her husband became the youngest aviator in the u.s. navy. she really is the first lady of the greatest generation.