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For the first time since she and her husband left the White House on Jan. 20, 1993, former first lady Barbara Bush explained on Wednesday why they never spoke ill of their successors, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Asked why she and President Bush 41 never criticized the Arkansas couple during their eight years in the White House, Mrs. Bush told radio host Sean Hannity, "We took a vow we would not speak badly." Asked about the nearly constant criticism by both Clintons leveled over the last three years against her son, George W. Bush, the former first lady at first...

Life After The White House POSTED: 4:23 p.m. EST October 31, 2003 UPDATED: 4:24 p.m. EST October 31, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Is there life after the White House? A new book by former first lady Barbara Bush proves there is. It's a busy life, with a dazzling aura and filled with places to go and things to do, without the pressures of public life. Before the start of President George H. W. Bush's 1992 reelection campaign, I interviewed Barbara Bush and found her ambivalent about whether she wanted a second term as first lady. Even so, she hit the campaign...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Barbara Bush introduced her new book at a fund-raiser for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts. Gov. Jeb Bush introduced his mother Saturday, joking about her outspoken nature. "With every passing year, we have no clue what she's going to say in public," he told the crowd waiting to get copies of her best-selling book, "Reflections: Life After the White House." Bush said she was able to remain grounded by never taking herself too seriously. She also wished she had kept all the photos of supposed Barbara Bush look-alikes over the years. "You cannot survive...

Former first lady Barbara Bush said Wednesday that her son, President Bush, never really had a drinking problem, though he might have given that impression with some offhanded comments during the 2000 presidential campaign. Asked whether first lady Laura Bush had played a key role in helping her husband turn his life around, the president's mother told CNN's "Larry King Live: "George was never a problem. He wasn't." "He really was not all of these horrible things," Mrs. Bush continued. "He brought that on himself, I think, truthfully, with all his Jack Daniels - 'Choose me or Jack Daniels' or...

<p>Former first lady Barbara Bush offered a tart-tongued analysis this week of the Democratic candidates who want her son's job.</p> <p>"So far, they are a pretty sorry group, if you want my opinion," Mrs. Bush said in an interview with NBC's "Today" show. The way I see it, never have 13 words said so much about so few who offer so little.</p>

Former First Lady Barbara Bush said Wednesday that her son, President Bush, never really had a drinking problem, though he might have given that impression with some offhanded comments during the 2000 presidential campaign. Asked whether First Lady Laura Bush had played a key role in helping her husband turn his life around, the president's mother told CNN's "Larry King Live, "George was never a problem. He wasn't." "He really was not all of these horrible things," Mrs. Bush continued. "He brought that on himself, I think, truthfully, with all his Jack Daniels - 'Choose me or Jack Daniels' or...

<p>She's the president's mother and a former first lady. Barbara Bush joins Larry for the hour to discuss her memoir for the first time on live television. Tune in at 9 p.m. ET.</p>

Barbara Bush Calls Democrat Line-Up a 'Sorry Group'Mon October 20, 2003 10:15 AM ETWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former first lady Barbara Bush and mother of President Bush described Democrats trying to unseat her son in the White House as a "sorry group" of politicians. "So far, they are a pretty sorry group if you want to know my opinion," said Mrs. Bush in an interview aired on Monday by NBC's "Today" show, when asked about the Democratic line-up for the 2004 presidential election. "This is the world according to Barbara Bush, not George, not George H.W., not anybody" she added. Her...

Former first lady Barbara Bush doesn't think much of the Democrat White House wannabes trying to topple her son. "So far, they are a pretty sorry group, if you want my opinion," she said this morning on "Today." "This is the world according to Barbara Bush, not George, not George H.W., not anybody." Her hubby noted the donkeys' abuse of "vicious rhetoric" against the president. "The one who makes, you know, the most outrageous charges against the president, and then he gets his 20 seconds on the evening news," former President G.H.W. Bush said. "Hey, I didn't ride in...

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 7:00 P.M. ET - Barbara Bush In an exclusive interview, former First Lady Barbara Bush talks to NBC’s Jamie Gangel about family secrets, the 2000 Presidential election, and what she calls the ”sorry lot” of current Democratic presidential contenders. The interview includes exclusive home videos that show the private side of one of America’s political dynasties.

"There is a myth in the United States -- you've heard it many times. It says that all American mothers hope that their child will grow up to be President of the United States," writes Barbara Bush in her new book "Reflections: Life After the White House," excerpted in the October 27 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, October 20). The former First Lady writes that in her case, that certainly is a myth. "But on January 20, 2001, even without having wished that one of our children would grow up to be president, there we were sitting on the...

Press Release Source: Newsweek NEWSWEEK BOOK EXCERPT: 'Reflections: Life After The White House,' By Former First Lady Barbara Bush Sunday October 19, 11:32 am ET 'There Is a Myth in The United States...That All American Mothers Hope Their Child Will Grow Up to Be President Of The United States. In My Case That Certainly Is a Myth.' 'I Find Myself Thinking of Al Gore and What He Must Be Feeling...We've Lost And Losing Is Not Easy,' Writes Bush of Her Thoughts During the 2001 Presidential Inauguration NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- "There is a myth in the United States...

Saturday, First Week of  Lent "If you love those who love you, what merit is there in that?" (Matthew 5:46) Reflection. St. Dominic Savio was born in Italy in 1842. One day when he was just four, he disappeared and his good mother went looking for him. She found the little fellow in a corner praying with his hands joined and his head bowed. He already knew all his prayers by heart! At five, he was an altar boy. When he was seven, he received his First Holy Communion. On that solemn day, he chose a motto: "Death, but...

Friday, First Week of  LentThe Fridays of  Lent are days of abstinence from meat. "Unless your holiness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees you shall not enter the kingdom of God." (Matthew 5:20) Reflection. HOW TO FAST Fast from judging others; Feast on Christ dwelling in them. Fast from apparent darkness; Feast on the reality of light. Fast from pessimism; Feast on optimism. Fast from thoughts of illness; Feast on the healing power of God. Fast from words that pollute; Feast on phrases that purify. Fast from anger; Feast on patience. Fast from worry; Feast on Divine Providence....

Friday After Ash WednesdayThe Fridays of  Lent are days of abstinence from meat. This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed. (Isaiah 58:6) Reflection.We must always remember what God tells us in Scripture: "Even if a mother could forget the child in her womb" - something impossible, but even if she could forget - "I will never forget you." And so here I am talking with you. I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there....

The alternative to my nuclear Ark  [ FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2002  2:24:25 AM ]SONIA JABBARSomebody, please build me an Ark. It should be large and capacious, able to accommodate not only my family and friends and the chance acquaintance, but also the neem and gulmohur trees in front of my house, a pair of Indian elephants, Bengal tigers, Himalayan bulbuls and rose-ringed parakeets, my books and CDs, my dogs, my friends’ dogs, and any other sentient being on this subcontinent wishing to leave. I don’t particularly want to sail away from my beloved land, but at this juncture the alternative...