barmar, on 2018-April-19, 09:35, said:
I remember her being a very gracious First Lady, and they seemed like a good couple. Whatever issues I might have had with the Bushes' politics, they seemed like reasonable people, good representatives of their (and your?) generation.
There is a lengthy tribute on PBS
https://www.pbs.org/...nasty-matriarch
Her date of birth (1925) is closer to mine (1939) than it is to my parent's (1900 and 1899). A lot happened between 1925 and 1939, and a lot happened between 1900 and 1925, so identifying with a generation is tricky I think it is true that my parents would have felt kinship, or whatever it should be called, with her in a way that they would not have felt it with either Nancy Reagan or Hillary Clinton.
Politicians have to be political, this we accept, but I think anyone can see that now is different from then. Some of this, maybe much of this, depends on personal qualities and judgment.