The true grace of Barbara Bush

The American matriarch was remembered last week as ‘the first lady of the greatest generation’ but her qualities as a leader were timeless.
Former president George H. W. Bush and his now late wife Barbara Bush, pictured at an event in Newport News, Va., Oct. 7, 2006.
The word came up again and again last week as the political world marked the loss of former United States first lady Barbara Bush: grace. It wasn’t the surface grace of a sample-size silhouette or of purchased elegance. Barbara Bush, by all accounts, had the true grace of always being her entirel...

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