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Allegedly George had a 12 year affair with his Female Aide according to this latest book...
Former First Lady and family matriarch Barbara Bush was once described as 'a silver-haired pearl draped howitzer'.
But a combination of blows in her life in the mid-seventies sent her spiraling into a depression that almost led to her taking her own life.
Among the causes of her despair was a woman who would stay by her husband George's side for more than 12 years.
Her name was Jennifer Fitzgerald and she was his aide – and according to some, his mistress, reveals Susan Page, author of The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty out next Tuesday.
Returning from a post in Beijing, China as chief of the US Liaison Office under President Gerald Ford, Barbara recalled the dizzying year as the best of times.
But it quickly evolved into the worst.
When Bush was assigned to head the embattled CIA in 1975, Barbara 'fell into darkness'.
'Barbara Bush found herself falling into the worst personal crisis she had faced since daughter Robin had died more than two decades earlier,' writes Page. 'Overwhelmed by pain and loneliness, she contemplated suicide.
'She would pull over to the side of the road until the impulse to plow into a tree or drive into the path of an oncoming car had passed'.
'I felt terrible. I would pull over and park so I wouldn't go hit a tree', Barbara confessed to author Susan Page before her death.
'I really wasn't brave enough to do that, but that's why I pulled over, so I wouldn't do that, or I wouldn't run into another car'.
More here with pictures... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...d-Georges-affair-aide-considered-suicide.html
Former First Lady and family matriarch Barbara Bush was once described as 'a silver-haired pearl draped howitzer'.
But a combination of blows in her life in the mid-seventies sent her spiraling into a depression that almost led to her taking her own life.
Among the causes of her despair was a woman who would stay by her husband George's side for more than 12 years.
Her name was Jennifer Fitzgerald and she was his aide – and according to some, his mistress, reveals Susan Page, author of The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty out next Tuesday.
Returning from a post in Beijing, China as chief of the US Liaison Office under President Gerald Ford, Barbara recalled the dizzying year as the best of times.
But it quickly evolved into the worst.
When Bush was assigned to head the embattled CIA in 1975, Barbara 'fell into darkness'.
'Barbara Bush found herself falling into the worst personal crisis she had faced since daughter Robin had died more than two decades earlier,' writes Page. 'Overwhelmed by pain and loneliness, she contemplated suicide.
'She would pull over to the side of the road until the impulse to plow into a tree or drive into the path of an oncoming car had passed'.
'I felt terrible. I would pull over and park so I wouldn't go hit a tree', Barbara confessed to author Susan Page before her death.
'I really wasn't brave enough to do that, but that's why I pulled over, so I wouldn't do that, or I wouldn't run into another car'.
More here with pictures... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...d-Georges-affair-aide-considered-suicide.html