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Barbara Bush: Fake Pearls, Real Heart
By Maureen Dowd
Opinion Columnist
April 21, 2018
WASHINGTON — Barbara Bush was an expert at throwing shade, even before the term existed.
When Congressman Dan Rostenkowski gave the first lady a shampoo for white hair made in his Illinois district, she tried it on her dog Millie.
“When I shampooed her with it, she became a brown and slightly yellow-haired dog,†she wrote in her memoir. “At this writing, Danny is under fire, accused of financial wrongdoing. We certainly wish him well.â€
She took her revenge, chilled, on Nancy Reagan, who never invited the Bushes to the White House residence for dinner in the eight years H.W. was vice president and who instructed Mrs. Bush to stay away from wearing “Nancy red†while she was the second lady. Writing about Nancy and Raisa Gorbachev competing at a wives’ lunch, Mrs. Bush said she wasn’t sure of Raisa’s age: “I don’t know how old, but I think the paper said 53 or 55. That’s funny, for we really don’t know if Nancy Reagan is 65 or 67 and she won’t tell.â€
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/opinion/sunday/barbara-bush-maureen-dowd.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/opinion/sunday/barbara-bush-maureen-dowd.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront)
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Dowd is not Cool..
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I was afraid to see what she had to say but I actually enjoyed it...for once Dowd was nice..
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I was afraid to see what she had to say but I actually enjoyed it...for once Dowd was nice..
It was a very nice article, and the family photo that is included is lovely.