HAVING YOU HERE TONIGHT, I HOPE
YOU CAN COME BACK TO SO WE CAN
DISCUSS WORLD ISSUES FURTHER AND
TONIGHT, WE HAVE TURNED OUR
ATTENTION TO BARBARA BUSH AND
JOINING ME NOW, CHRIS WALLACE,
HOST OF FOX NEWS SUNDAY.
GOOD EVENING TO YOU.
OBVIOUSLY, SAD NEWS.
EVERYONE JUST REGISTERING THIS
LOSS.
>> IT IS VERY SAD NEWS AND GOOD
EVENING, MARTHA.
FIRST OF ALL, YOU HAVE TO PUT
BARBARA BUSH IN HISTORICAL
CONTEXT BECAUSE SHE SHARED
SOMETHING WITH ABIGAIL ADAMS
WHICH WAS SHE WAS THE ONLY OTHER
WOMAN WHO WAS BOTH THE WIFE OF
THE PRESIDENT AND THE MOTHER OF
A PRESIDENT.
BARBARA BUSH AND ABIGAIL ADAMS,
GREAT COMPANY.
AND THE EX-ORDINARY LOVE AFFAIR
BETWEEN GEORGE H.W. BUSH 41 AND
BARBARA BUSH.
SHE MET HIM WHEN SHE WAS 16
YEARS OLD, SHE WAS IN BOARDING
SCHOOL.
HE WENT OFF TO WAR, THEY
MARRIED, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE
AGE, SHE WAS 20 YEARS OLD AT THE
TIME.
THEY WERE MARRIED FOR SEVEN TO
82 YEARS.
HE CAME BACK FROM
A BOARD TO WHERE HE WAS THE
YOUNGEST NAVY PILOT TO ENLIST IN
THE NAVY DURING WORLD WAR II MAY
HAVE A SIX ORDINARY RELATIONSHIP
HAVE A SIX ORDINARY RELATIONSHI
RELATIONSHIP, THE LONGEST
MARRIAGE OF ANY FIRST COUPLE IN
AMERICAN HISTORY.
TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF HER
FLAVOR, I WAS WITH HER A NUMBER
OF TIMES, THE FAMILY CALLED HER
AT THE FOX, THEY CALLED HER THE
ENFORCER, SHE WAS TOUGH.
SHE RAN THE FAMILY AND I THINK
THAT BUSH 41 WOULD ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT BECAUSE HE WAS OFF PURSUING
HIS CAREER, FIRST IN THE OIL
BUSINESS, AND THEN IN NATIONAL
POLITICS.
SHE RAN THE FAMILY AND WAS THE
ENFORCER IN TERMS OF DISCIPLINE
AND WHAT WAS ALLOWED AND WHAT
WASN'T ALLOWED.
ED WENT NATALIE FOR HER
CHILDREN, BUT FOR HER
GRANDCHILDREN.
YOU DIDN'T MESS WITH BARBARA
BUSH.
I REMEMBER WHEN THE PRESIDENT
WAS PRESIDENT, BUSH 41 WAS
PRESIDENT AND HE ANNOUNCED
DEFIANTLY THAT HE DIDN'T LIKE
BROCCOLI AND HE WASN'T GOING TO
EAT BROCCOLI AND HE WAS THE
PRESIDENT AND NOT PUT UP WITH IT
ANYMORE.
IT WAS A HUGE OUTCRY FROM THE
BROCCOLI GROWERS.
HE WOULD HAVE A HUGE TRUCK OF
BROCCOLI DELIVERED UP TO THE
WHITE HOUSE.
ALL AMERICANS SHOULD EAT
BROCCOLI IS WHAT SHE SAID.
>> Martha: REALLY CAN'T
CONVINCE
SHOES FROM ONE OF THE
CONVENTIONS.
I AM RECOVERING A CONVENTION IN
NEW YORK FOR W. BUSH AND SEEING
BARBARA BUSH AND PRESIDENT BUSH
41 THERE, JUST BEAMING, EAR TO
EAR.
THEY WERE SO PROUD OF THEIR SON.
WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH 41 LOST TO
BILL CLINTON FOR THAT SECOND
TERM, HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE A ONE
TERM OR, AS WE ALL REMEMBER.
SHE TOOK THAT LOSS HARD AND THEN
TO SEE HER SON, THE FORMER
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS TAKE ON THAT
ROLE, OBVIOUSLY IT WAS AN
ENORMOUS BURST OF PRIDE FOR THE
TWO OF THEM.
I REMEMBER SO CLEARLY THINKING
ABOUT WHAT AN AMAZING HISTORICAL
MOMENT THAT WAS.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
OF COURSE, BUSH 43 DID GET
REELECTED, WAS A TWO-TERM
PRESIDENT AND I THINK THERE WAS
SOME FEELING OF VINDICATION
INSIDE THE BUSH FAMILY.
YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, MAYBE IT
WAS BRETT THAT DID, THAT WHEN
THERE WAS TALK EARLY ON IN THIS
LAST CAMPAIGN ABOUT JEB BUSH,
GEORGE BUSH 43'S YOUNGER BROTHER
RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, SHE SAID
I THINK THERE'S BEEN ENOUGH, BUT
WHEN JEB DECIDED HE WANTED TO
RUN, OF COURSE, SHE WAS OUT
THERE, IT WAS TWO YEARS AGO, SHE
WAS 90 YEARS OLD.
SHE WAS OUT CAMPAIGNING FOR HIM
IN THE PRIMARIES AS A BEAUTIFUL
MOTHER WOULD BECAUSE IT WAS VERY
DEEPLY LOYAL TO HER SON.
>> Martha: YOU THINK ABOUT THE
GREAT POLITICAL DYNASTIES IN
AMERICAN HISTORY AND YOU THINK
ABOUT THE KENNEDYS, YOU THINK
ABOUT THE BUSHES, THERE IS