04/19/2018

Barbara Bush, Nonprofit Leader

The former first lady helped raise millions of dollars for family literacy efforts

First Lady Barbara Bush left her mark on the world in many ways—as the wife of one president, and the mother of another—but perhaps the largest personal legacy she leaves behind is that of her nonprofit endeavors, particularly with literacy.

Bush, who died Tuesday at age 92, first got involved in the cause of family literacy during the 1980s when she served as second lady when her husband, George H.W. Bush, was Ronald Reagan’s vice president. Per a biography on the Bush Presidential Library & Museum website, Bush was deeply concerned by the fact that 35 million U.S. adults could not read above an eighth-grade level.

“If more people could read or write, we could be much closer to solving so many other problems that our country faces,” Bush is quoted as saying.

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