America's Favorite Grandmother, the author of the best-selling Barbara Bush: A Memoir, is sitting on the plumped-up cushions of a luxurious suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers and revealing another side. It's not one that rhymes with rich, as she so famously characterized Geraldine Ferraro, her husband's 1984 vice-presidential rival, but not one that's soft and cuddly either. Pose a question about the Clintons, and she will snap,"Oh, them. This is supposed to be about my book." Point out that her pro-choice stance is totally at odds with her husband's -- he would make abortion illegal, after all -- and she says,...
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