FLOTUS – Barbara Pierce Bush

A.K.A.: Barbara Bush

D.O.B.: June 8, 1925

P.O.B.: New York City, New York

Relationship to POTUS: Wife of George H.W. Bush

5 facts:

• Was a distant cousin of President Franklin Pierce: they shared a colonist ancestor

• Took on literacy as a cause

• Thought 1984 Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro was a “rhymes with rich”

• She was in contrast to her predecessor Nancy Reagan that she kept her white hair and rejected fashionable clothes and was overall more concerned with things like gardening

• Was fond of her English Springer Spaniel Millie and wrote a children’s book about her and her puppies

Describe in one (1) word: