Tag: USA Today

We look back at the life of former first lady Barbara Bush. Barbara Bush: What’s the matter with Americans? President George W. Bush: Yes. There was a lot of psychobabble about my relationship with my parents during the presidency, and it’s natural, because people haven’t had a chance to ask many presidents, what it’s like to be president with your father being a former president and mother a former first lady? President George W. Bush: I did, yes. I look out in the pews, and there is the president’s parents, you know, President George Bush, Barbara Bush. Judy Woodruff: And you have told us that you went on to have a great friendship with them. Bonnie Steinroeder: It was a huge part of her life and of President Bush’s life as well. You could see it in the motivation that they felt to help other people, to be good people, to be kind, to be generous. And I do think that’s probably what helped her at the end of her life to have that sense of peace, because we had talked a long, long time ago about her beliefs that she knew she would be reunited with the people she loved who had gone before her.

SportsPulse: Ahead of the Final Four, Charles Barkley did not hold back his feelings on the NCAA and FBI. “I’m still trying to figure out why the FBI is involved,” Barkley said. We cheated back then. The toothpaste is out of the tube. They said they gave that kid at Arizona (Ayton) $100,000. “I didn’t realize the FBI needed to be paying attention to college basketball. “These (political) parties suck. Republicans do what they do — they’re gonna take care of rich people. We as democrats have to start calling our party out more. We have to start holding our politicians (more) accountable.