Former President George W. Bush is thanking well-wishers who wrote him a note about the passing of his dad with a letter of his own and a photographic memento of former President George H.W. Bush.
“Thank you for your sympathies. The Bush family is grateful for the sweet remembrances of my Dad from friends and fellow citizens,” he wrote in his card.
“George H.W. Bush was a great man, a great father, and a great President. He showed us how to make the most of every minute of every day and serve a cause greater than self. To us he was the brightest of a thousand points of light. We give thanks to God for George H.W. Bush and for the many who have prayed for him and us,” he concluded.
- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who busted her pelvis and hip socket in a painful bicycle accident, is out of a wheelchair and using a walker as she recovers. …
- Independent presidential candidate Howard Schultz is headed to Austin for the annual SXSW festival to woo younger voters to his 2020 bid. …
- When he was near death with a heart infection in December 2017, Jan Scruggs, the founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, got a special gift from his friend, songster Jimmy Buffett. It was a song that ended, “Hang In There, Jan.” To celebrate a year of good health, Buffett just sent Scruggs a note that read, “We’ll look at you, the poster boy for ‘Growing Older But Not Up.’ Amazing and wonderful. Fins UP. Jimmy.” …
- Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines is getting lots of credit for pushing a bipartisan lands package through Congress and to President Trump. His office described it as a lifelong passion. “He spends weeks in the wilderness every summer with his wife and two dogs, he taught his kids how to fly fish just after they learned how to walk, and he recently bagged elk on some of Montana’s most beautiful public lands. Who better to work to protect public lands and increase public access to those lands, than someone who spends most of his time outdoors?” said his office. …
