@Suppressed
His apology said it was done in jest and he was sorry if she took it another way.
He faced this head on and dealt with it - Trump would have starting attacking her and wouldn't stop for 20 years.
Something else the elder Bush said a year or longer ago, before he was completely wheel chair bound:
He was falling all the time, and said, "When I am walking, I look for the softest place to fall." He was up front with his falling, telling the truth about it in humor.
@Victoria33 Thank you for explaining that! It really didn't seem to be the type of thing he'd do, and it confused me.
I've really liked the elder Bush, even if I wasn't in love with all of his policies. I'll forever kick myself for declining the invitation to lunch with him...I just shook his hand and thanked him (!) and got back to my newspaper to make deadline and run a special edition to support his re-election effort.
But I got to the Oval Office with W, and I'm glad for that. I'm not big on all he did, either, but I was eyes-open on his "open-border" stuff because I knew of him from Texas. It's not like he ever hid that, but I think many non-Texans were caught by surprise.
Neither was a choir boy, and both father and son are politicians, but they are also decent men, too, IMO.