well, i think, just the whole family really gets so close together. you always have an opponent in politics. so doesn t have to be your husband. i like you anyway. so do i. no. i think that there s something about politics when the world isn t against your husband, you think, at times for children. our grandchildren, 17 plus four, are very close. i think it is because of politics. i can imagine. they are very close. very loving. i will say to pierce, oh, i haven t heard from marshall for a while. oh, i just talked to her yesterday. or they get the iphone which is evident leap you can talk forever for free. incidentally, marshall has just asked me to sign a picture for cane corso dog breeder. it is a dog about so big that can eat you up. it killed a woman. she s getting one. i signed it, but i didn t want to. what do you miss the most about the white house? i always say the chef. understandably. just like barb said, we miss all the people we work with.
white house, whether it was organizing a barbecue for lady bird johnson or exercising their diplomatic skills at a state dinner, social secretaries were the right hands of the first lady. in this hourlong conversation at the george w. bush presidential center in dallas, texas, they recalled their duties and life inside the white house. introduce the panel. richard norton smith who will be chairing this panel is a nationally renowned author. between 1987 and 2003 he served as director of the her boort hoover presidential library, the dwight d. eisenhower presidential library, the ronald reagan presidential library and the gerald ford presidential library, so he has presidential library experience and in 2003 he was appointed the founding director of the abraham lincoln presidential library in springfield, illinois. he s an author and commentator on c-span and pbs and he s working on a biography of norman rockefeller. on our panel is bess abel, she s a kentucky girl who can w