Grandchildren. He and his wife barbara fell in love as teenagers and were in love decades after being married, and love letters like this one. My darling barbara, words should come easily, and in short, it should be simple for me to tell you how desperately happy i was to open the paper and see the announcement of our engagement. But somehow i cant possibly say all in a letter i should like to. I love you, precious, with all my heart and to know that you love me, means my life. How often i have thought about the im measurable joy it will be ours some day. How lucky our children will to be have a mother like you. Joining us now, are cnns special correspondent jamie gangel, who has covered and known the bush family for many years. Jamie youre getting new reporting on the former president s final day. What you can tell us . What weve learned is that he really had a rough final week, as we know, wolf, hes been suffering from parkinsons, and he had congestive heart failure. And the last wee
matches, he would turn a competition into everything he possibly could. and he had a ranking committee of one. he was the chairman of the ranking committee. and he would call it the family ranking committee. and we rank everybody s abilities, in different sports, and different things that they would engage with, and the amazing thing about him is that he could be having a meeting with king hussein of jordan, one minute, and talking with brent croft in a room the next and talking to you about a baseball game the night before, or what he was planning on doing that day, and in terms of the golf course, and what fish he had caught. and the memories that i will remember of him, are that he is somebody who had a constant parade of friends come to visit him during the summers in maine. and it wasn t just the typical republican rolodex. it was tip o neill, george mitchell, it was ted kennedy,