Bush sr really liked to bang the uglies, kek
Look at the evil looks Barbara is giving her.
>When Bush was assigned to head the embattled CIA in 1975, Barbara 'fell into darkness'.
EXCLUSIVE: 'I would pull over and park so I wouldn't go hit a tree.' Barbara Bush revealed how she fell into a deep depression and considered suicide while her husband George carried on decade-long affair with younger aide, explosive new bio reveals
Barbara Bush fell into a serious depression and contemplated suicide, the former first lady told author Susan Page for her new book The Matriarch Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
She said: 'I felt terrible. 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'
The mother-of-six had just returned from a post in Beijing where her husband George H.W. served as chief of the US Liaison Office in 1974
Those close to Barbara speculated that her husband's suspected affair with aide Jennifer Fitzgerald contributed to her grief and suicidal depression
Their flirtation began in 1973, and a woman sharing a beach house in Maryland with Fitzgerald remembered Bush calling the house a least once a day
A member of Bush's inner circle said when Bush was first introduced to Fitzgerald by Dean Burch in the 1970s, he 'was simply captivated'
A lobbyist recalled that in 1984 an ambassador was asked to arrange for Bush and Fitzgerald to share a private cottage during an official visit to Geneva'
Page writes that Fitzgerald was 'not a striking beauty' but 'was flirty and solicitous and focused completely' on George
'Their surreptitious romance would last for more than a dozen years, inexplicable to those around him and impossible for anyone to manage', writes the author
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'.
George held his weeping wife in his arms every night, while she tried to explain her feelings.
'I almost wonder why he didn't leave me', Barbara confessed to the author.
She was able to hide her depression from other family members and friends – but not George who encouraged her to get professional help.
When the crisis passed, Barbara theorized her depression was 'a toxic combination of factors'.
With George's new position at the CIA, it was the first time since his early days as chairman of the Harris County Republican Committee in Houston that he couldn't share with Barbara what he was doing. His job at the CIA was top secret.
'The truth is, I can't keep a secret', Barbara told the author in many conversations they had before Barbara's death in April of 2018.
'You tell me a secret, I'll keep it for about a day, maybe a day and a half'.
Barbara considered that with the onset of menopause, a hormonal imbalance might have set her off emotionally.
Or the empty nest at home with her children away at boarding schools or in new careers left her feeling inadequate to bring on such darkness.
But others who were close to Barbara speculated that there was an unmentioned reason that contributed to her grief and suicidal depression – Jennifer Fitzgerald.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6861667/Barbara-Bush-devastated-humiliated-Georges-affair-aide-considered-suicide.html