It feels like I’ve lost a friend in Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush’s passing rekindled memories of her visit to Chapman University in April 2000. She accompanied her husband, George H. W. Bush, who received Chapman’s Global Citizen Medal.
When they arrived, I gave the former president and first lady a short tour of the campus. President Bush could not have been more charming. He reached out to everyone he encountered with a kind word and smile. He gently ribbed me with jokes about the pressures he astutely knew accompanied my job as pre