USA TODAY Exclusive: In 'The Matriarch,' Barbara Bush blames Donald Trump for her heart attack and for driving her from the Republican Party.
EXCLUSIVE: This story is adapted from The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty, which will be published April 2 by Twelve Books. Author Susan Page, the Washington Bureau chief of USA TODAY, spent hours interviewing the former first lady during the final six months of Bush's life and was given access to her personal diaries spanning decades.It wasn’t technically a heart attack, though she called it that.
That was a stunning acknowledgment. Barbara Bush had been one of the most recognizable faces of the Republican Party through two presidencies. She was the matriarch of one of the GOP’s leading families. But after Trump’s rise, she saw it as a party she could not continue to support, a party she no longer recognized – even as one of her grandsons, George P. Bush, was on the ballot as a Republican running for re-election as Texas land commissioner.
She returned to New Hampshire, the state that had rescued the elder George Bush’s presidential prospects in 1988, to campaign once again. This time, she was 90 years old and using a walker. She pushed it through a New Hampshire snowstorm as she went from event to diner to interview. “Putin endorsed him, for heaven’s sake,” Barbara Bush erupted. “Putin the killer! Putin the worst! He endorsed Trump! That’s an endorsement you don’t want.”
More than a quarter-century later, Barbara Bush couldn’t quite imagine that Trump was going to win the White House on his own. The morning after the election, George H.W. Bush, honoring the traditions of the office, called the president-elect to offer his congratulations. Trump “was very nice,” Barbara Bush wrote in her diary. “He said that George was a great president and he admired us both. He said Jeb was strong and a great man. He is trying ... at this moment ... to be conciliatory. He says he wants to represent all the people.
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