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America's Favorite Grandmother, the author of the best-selling Barbara Bush: A Memoir, is sitting on the plumped-up cushions of a luxurious suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers and revealing another side. It's not one that rhymes with rich, as she so famously characterized Geraldine Ferraro, her husband's 1984 vice-presidential rival, but not one that's soft and cuddly either. Pose a question about the Clintons, and she will snap,"Oh, them. This is supposed to be about my book." Point out that her pro-choice stance is totally at odds with her husband...
...Barbara Bush, author on tour, is a lot more interesting than the old one. She discloses that she was so depressed for a six-month period in 1976 that she felt like driving into a tree. She adds,"It was the kids' being gone and menopause. Today I would take chemicals to help me through." For the first time she talks poignantly about a Mother Problem. She regrets that her mother, who had everything, "wanted this, had to have that, didn't know how well...
...didn't want to let her labor the point that George Bush (she always refers to him in the third person) had once worked in the private sector, unlike a certain President from Arkansas. Letterman said, "I think she's pretty steamed at me." Who would have thought Barbara Bush and Madonna would ever have something in common...
PUBLIC EYE: The Edge of Barbara Bush...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Gregory Jaynes, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...