Word: grandchildren
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Lord is survived by her husband, Edwin C. Lord Jr., two children, Mary C. Lord '75 and Ted Lord '75, and three grandchildren...
...really meant it when I said I want to get active with the grandchildren," he declared recently. "The big things in the world are better now. But I firmly believe that the biggest danger to us is the disintegration of the American family...
...they are "points of light" that answer his call for volunteerism from those old days. "It's a different kind of thing that you do here," he declares. "Make a life a little better. It isn't going to be done just by government." His 13 grandchildren claim a large slice of him. "Doro ((daughter Dorothy Koch)) brought down her Bobby ((10 months)) the other day. I was down on the floor crawling around and watching him follow me. A total joy. I mean it." So is the time he spends with his quiet 18-year-old grandson, George...
...recent day, Bush rushed to pick up Lauren, his son Neil's nine-year-old, to take her to school for a grandfather-granddaughter breakfast. He was half an hour late for a jet waiting to fly him to Mexico for a speech. Promises to grandchildren take precedence...
Bush is one of the five members of that amorphous but exclusive club of retired Presidents. He phones up Reagan and Ford now and then. He sent Nixon 13 photographs of the five of them and asked him to autograph one each for Bush's grandchildren. "I'm not selling these," Bush promised. Nixon signed...