Ronald Kessler Quote

At one point, Bush and his wife, Barbara, were staying at their Kennebunkport home in the winter, and they went out for a walk in the freezing cold. I had a hat on, and two of the other agents had a hat on, but the one agent assigned to the first lady didn’t bring a hat with him, says former agent Patrick F. Sullivan, who was on the President’s Protective Detail from 1986 to 1990. So the president came out with Mrs. Bush, and we started to walk. Where’s your hat? Mrs. Bush asked the hatless agent. Oh, Mrs. Bush, I didn’t bring one. I didn’t realize it was going to be so cold here, he said. George, we need to get this agent a hat, Barbara Bush—code-named Tranquillity—said. Okay, Bar, he replied. She walked back into the house, got one of President Bush’s furry hats, and gave it to the agent. No, Mrs. Bush, that’s fine, the agent said. Hey, don’t argue with Mrs. Bush, Bush said. The agent put on the president’s hat. That was Mrs. Bush, Sullivan says. She was everyone’s mother, and she didn’t want this forty-year-old man walking around at Kennebunkport without a hat on. She was a sweetheart. Barbara and George Bush were genuinely in love, Albracht says. They share a special bond of being married and being each other’s best friend that you don’t really see a lot of. Today