OnPolitics Today: RIP, Barbara

with Jessica Estepa

Barbara Bush listens to her son, President George W.

We had a completely different intro written earlier.

But in light of the news that just broke, we're jettisoning that. This edition of OnPolitics Today is for you, Barbara.

The matriarch of the Bush family

Barbara Pierce Bush, the only woman in U.S. history to live through the presidencies of both her husband and her son, died Tuesday from complications of congestive heart failure. She was 92.

Her family announced over the weekend that she wouldn't further seek medical treatment for her illness. Just a day before her death, granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager described the former first lady as being in "great spirits."

USA TODAY's Susan Page wrote of Bush's life:

"Barbara Bush dropped out of Smith during her sophomore year to marry George Bush, the first boy she ever kissed and then a young Navy pilot in World War II. After the war ended and he graduated from Yale, she and their toddler son, Georgie, followed him from the comforts of Connecticut to the wilds of Texas, where he was determined to make his fortune in the booming oil business.

Over the years, she established more than two dozen homes in their peripatetic life, served as 'the enforcer' rearing their five surviving children, and emerged as one of her husband's most trusted advisers and biggest political assets. She had a sharp eye for phonies and a blunt-spoken willingness to speak her mind, including to her son, George W. Bush, when he became the nation's 43rd president."

Barbara Bush was known for her bluntness and candor. Here's what she had to say about death in a 2013 interview with C-SPAN:

"I have no fear of death, which is a huge comfort, because we're getting darn close. And I don't have a fear of death for my precious George or for myself, because I know there is a great God."

And she loved her husband to the end.

"I am still old and still in love with the man I married 72 years ago," she wrote in a note for the spring edition of Smith's alumnae magazine.

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