When George Herbert Walker Bush was a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1941, he noticed Barbara „Babs“ Pierce at a dance.
„George Bush sees her and asks a friend to introduce them,“ said Warren Finch, director of the George H. W. Bush Library and Museum. „So they start to dance and a waltz comes on, and George says, ‚I don’t know how to waltz. Can we sit down and talk?'“
Less than two years later, before Bush went off to war as a pilot in the U. S. Navy, he and Pierce got engaged.
„If you read some of those letters that President Bush wrote, when he was that fighter pilot, and those letters were sent back to his mother saying, ‚I love Barbara.
