these are not springer spaniel's. guest: this is a leash city and you cannot walk your dog's without a leash. -- with a springer spaniel a squirrel will go by and i'm flat on the ground. these i can hold. they are good. i am not sure they are dogs though. they may be people. they are very spoiled. we go to the public ground, which we are not a member of the club but nobody cares say you cannot, so i walked him at the polo ground. [barking] and they bark occasionally. your you have written memoir, you kept a journal all your life. guest: still. host: will the papers go to the library? guest: they're all there and they are not to be open for 50 years so i can say what i want. i'm getting very forgetful, and it really helps to have the memoirs to remember things. it makes it easier to write a book, doesn't it? host: when you think about your legacy as first lady, what would you like it to be in what do you think it will be? guest: never thought about it. -- ie it will be that she hope it will be that her children are her

we just saw barbara bush with her famous springer spaniel. she was a great lover of springer spaniel spared one of the great things about her or anyone, but i have to say she was with her husband all the time, she traveled with him. what was her political sensibility? she must of had a sense of it being around her whole life. >> she had a pet issue, literacy, she had a number of causes she supported, literacy was the one that was most conspicuous and i went to be the emcee at the 75th anniversary of pearl harbor a year ago last december and that was at the bush library, bush 41 library in texas and the first night we were there, she was not there because she was away at a literacy event with her son neil. there was a cause that she lost sight of. the springer spaniel's were out of the picture and she had a couple of these dogs that went wherever she would go and you could tell when she was going to come into a room because she would be preceded by the dogs and they kept an eye on things. she liked that. >> tucker: our dogs get smaller as we a

barbara brought their springer spaniel millie to the white house, describing in a book how millie might have seen a day in the life of the president and the white house. and when she grew criticism from feminists who found her message old fashioned, she responded, offering this advice. >> at the end of your life, you will not regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. you will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent. >> reporter: barbara bush, a woman of strong opinions ultimately left politics to her husband and sons. she's remembered for her maternal persona, yankee frugality and protector of the bush family name. pet peter alexander, nbc news. >> funeral arrangements have not been publicly announced. our other big story tonight, the harrowing moments in the sky over pennsylvania. a passenger was killed when an engine on a southwest airlines jet exploded in flight, hurling shrapnel, shattering a window. the cabin depressurized and nearly sucked a female passenger out of the plane. as pilots of the cripple

the english springer spaniel has become a guessing game, when and how many?e labor began, the president correctly picked the litter. >> i would guess six. >> reporter: and right he was, five females and one male. millie is not the first famous bush dog. a millie book is under consideration that would help education causes. millie could tell how the arrival of the puppies threatened to disrupt presidential sleeping arrangements. >> she said tonight you're in the lincoln bed alone. >> reporter: millie went into labor while the bushes were watching a movie together with company. mrs. bush missed the last part of the movie and calls the puppies the cutest thing you've ever seen. marshall bush is a safe bet as one future owner. abc news, the white house. >> and millie, one of millie's little puppies came back to the white house as george w. bush's dog. >> there is a park in houston named after millie. the legend continues. >>> this is abc's "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. now," informing insomniacs for two decades. >>> good morning. i'm dia

. >> these are not springer spaniels though. >> i know. this is a leash city/. if a squirrel goes by, i am flat on my face. these i can hold. i am not sure they are dogs though. they may be people. they're very spoiled. we go to the polo grounds of which we are not a member of the club, but nobody would dare say. i walk them there. [barking] and they bark occasionally. >> you have written your memoir. you kept a journal all of your life. will those papers come the library? >> they are all there. they are not to be opened for 50 years, so i can say what i want. i'm getting very forgetful and it really helps to have that memoirs to remember things. it makes it easier to write a book, doesn't it? >> barbara bush when you think about your legacy as first lady, what would you like it to be? and what do you think it will be? >> never thought about it. i hope it will be that her children are her legacy and her grandchildren. and now three great grandchildren and a fourth coming. i hope family. certainly, family is crucial. i would like to see the american family come b

springer spaniel named millie.>> if people could read, write, and comprehend we would be that much closersolving many of the problems that plagued the nation.>> reporter: she was raised in the new york city suburbs. she attended a prestigious private school. she was 16 when she met her husband during a christmas break. she left college to marry mister bush after he returned home a curio -- a hero from world war ii. she will be remembered as a gracious first lady who headed one of the nation's most prominent political families. kenneth craig cbs news. >> the mayor of san francisco being honored today. his widow stepped into accepted the survivor fire helmet. willie brown presented mrs. lee with the award. part of the gathering that takes place every april 18 to remember the great earthquake of 1906. the fire helmet presented for his efforts to restore a fountain. tomorrow morning at exactly 5:12 they will hold the animal -- they will hold the annual remembrance ceremony.>>> a breakthrough to fighting plastic pollution. >> kpix5 weather sponsored by mancini sleep world. rest easy during man

barbara broughtnaire springer spaniel millie to the white house describing how she might have seen the after brez and the white house. when she drew criticism from feminist who's found her message too old fashions she responded offering this advice. >> at the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. you will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent. >> barbara bush a woman of strong opinions ultimately left politics to her husband and sons. she's remembered for her maternal per seasonna, yankee frugality and maining her role as ferocious protector of the bush family name. peter alexander, nbc news. >> again cache the breaking news barbara bush passed away at the age of 82. jon meacham wrote a biography of george h.w. bush. he joins us by phone. thank you for taking a few minutes. that start, if you would, just describing that marriage. that relationship. it goes back so far, connecticut to texas. all the way to the top in washington, all the way to the year 2018. >> it's

millie, their springer spaniel, had the run of the white house >> this is pickles. >> woodruff: millieduced a famous litter of puppies, displayed before the washington press corps when they were just a few days old. >> do you really want to keep one? >> well, i haven't won that battle. >> woodruff: in time, mrs. bush was inspired to write a best-g sellildren's work, titled "millie's book." she reminisced about it in 2012 at the george w. bush presidential library. >> she made over a million dollars for charity. as george says, i worked all my life, got the highest job maybe in the world, and my dog made more money than i did. >> woodruff: writing her own book was just part of a larger campaign for literacy in america. barbara bush took an active role in several literacy organizations, including the one she founded. >> remember we have a new baby in the house. i have now spent more than 25 years promoting famieracy as i truly believe that being able tread, write and comprehend is one of the keys to a very succeful, happy life and that a literate society is important to keeping our count