Christina Baker Kline for Slate writes:
In Apr of 2014, I was invited to Houston equally a invitee author for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy fundraiser, along alongside 2 well-known manly individual authors in addition to a manly individual journalist who’d written a mass nearly a Navy SEAL..
.After the luncheon, it was fourth dimension to accept grouping photos. Barbara Bush in addition to I stood in addition to chatted for a few minutes acre the lensman readied his camera. President George H.W. Bush, whom I had non nevertheless met, sat inwards his wheelchair inwards the take in of the room, acre others were arranged approximately him for photos inwards diverse groupings. When it came fourth dimension for my hubby in addition to me to live on photographed alongside him, President Bush beckoned me close.
“Hello,” I said. “It’s genuinely an laurels to run across you.”
He cocked his caput at me for a moment, therefore said, “You’re beautiful.”
“Thank you,” I said.
“You’re a writer.”
“Yes."
“You wanna know my favorite book?” he whispered. I had to thin closed to bespeak heed him.
“Yes, what is it?”
By instantly the lensman was readying the shot. My hubby stood on i side of the wheelchair, in addition to I stood on the other. President Bush pose his arm approximately me, depression on my back. His comic timing was impeccable. “David Cop-a-feel,” he said, in addition to squeezed my butt, hard, merely equally the lensman snapped the photo. Instinctively, I swiped his paw away.
It’s correct at that topographic point inwards the official photograph. President Bush laughing at his joke...
,Bush spokesman Jim McGrath directed Slate to a arguing he released inwards reply to allegations before this calendar week that read: “At historic menses 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly v years, therefore his arm falls on the lower waist of people alongside whom he takes pictures. To endeavor to pose people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — in addition to on occasion, he has patted women’s rears inwards what he intended to live on a good-natured manner. Some get got seen it equally innocent; others clearly stance it equally inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely. Sumber http://www.targetliberty.com/