boyden gray, i'm going to starth ou.s so remarkable to me, we just heard both president bushes comment witweh this, sayin are comfortable with this. she was comfortable with her passing. we heard h.w. bush say, "cross hethe bushes off worry list." that tells you a lot about her is and her family. >> isays a great deal. she went out the way she lived her life. she did it her way, she did it honestly, she did it straightforwardedly. it was a dignified way to go. those of us who work with the feel so lucky to have been exposed to such to such love yd strength. >> woodruff: susa've been working on this book, which we mentioned, about barbara bu that's coming out next year. and i was struck, one of the things-- you said you've en struck by how she was often misperceived, underestimated by people. what did you mean by that? >> well, e of the reasons i thought she deserved a biography is that people had, i think, perception of her as a warm grandmother and a very soft-- the national grandmother with the white hair and the big p

boyden gray, i want to come back to you.re are so many pa ts of her liat are really interesting. i want to go back to what susan was saying about barbara bush's influence in the white house on her husband. how did you see that? >> well, she-- she was on top of everything. she didn't get involved, as susan said, in individual policies, except very, very rarely. but she knew everything. she was politically very, ve astute. and if she thought staff was not serving her husband well, orth somebody was cutting corners, she would let it be known, quietly, but strongly. and no one ever messed around when shewas watching. so she was an enormous watchdog for him, and she was anus enor tower of strength. she never flinched. she never blinked. and ime always supported to the fullest. it was a remarkable partthnershp they had. >> woodruff: susan, what's an example of that. you talked to us about the difficult, the painful times at she went thrugh, and often we didn't have any idea that that was going on. >> you know, it's true. she is fr