and her aha moment was at wellesley when she came in the day martin luther king was shot, she came increaming and sobbing, and she said this can not go on. that was when she turned from being a little goldwater girl to being a real progressive marcher, a real liberal. >> how did -- >> that was 1968. and she -- she would graduate the next year. i think that was a moment where she turned into an activist. you can see her politics changing as soon as she got to wellesley really, as did hundreds of thousands of people of that generation of kids when they got to college. >> as the war was going on -- >> and civil rights and all of th that, yeah. >> how did she get to wellesley, this midwestern girl? >> she was a very smart student. she was the president of her high school class. it was an all girl's school near suburban boston. and, you know, her parents drove her out in the cadillac, hugh rodham's cadillac. >> it made her father furious when he realized it was snobby eastern liberal girls' school and he never visited her there until her graduation. it was the fascinating thing to me about

there were a number of high borne society girls at wellesley and that was not her bag at all. she wasn't sure she was smart enough at the beginning. and she was depressed. she was in her sophomore year. she may have considered. it >> i think it was more like taking a year off instead of dropping out. >> how did she get to yale law school? what was the decision to study law? >> that is what someone who wanted to have an active life and affecting change would do in that era. she got to yell law school in 1969, actually the year before bill clinton. i think she, not so much that she wanted, she may have wanted it more than he did, but they both sought as a way to get the life they wanted. both in politics and in affecting social change. yale law school was a very socially active place during that period. classes were the opposite of harvard law. i was not like everything was different. >> what was the environment for women studying at yellow school? >> there weren't very. many i think there is something like five in the class. so she was quite unique, there and she has been an ev

. >> 1990, wellesley college. >> i was there. >> what was the speech you gave? >> wellesley, you say, is not just a place but an idea. >> it was a difficult speech in that they objected to my speaking because i'd never done anything in my life, that i had just had a free ride. and they were right. and incidentally, it happened that rice and gorbachev was coming to this country with her husband, and i couldn't leave her. so, i invited her to come speak with me. and i got highly criticized saying, well, she doesn't dare come by herself. and she's bringing her as a protector. and it was a difficult speech. it turned out that there was one student at wellesley from south america who we were treating to this great education and a girl from maine. and the day or two before the speech, the girl from maine called and said, i'm so embarrassed, mrs. bush. this is built into a great thing. i was getting calls from president nixon saying you tell those girls to go to the devil and whatever. i mean, i had a lot of people for me. but i didn't want to get into a spitting fight

but you could see her politics changing as soon as she got to wellesley, really.ndreds of thousands kids of that generation whether they got to college. >>vqt as the war was going on a civil unrest. >> and civil rights and all of that. >> how did she get to wellesley. this mid western girl. >> she was a very smart student. she was the president of her high school class. and was an all-girls school in suburban boston. and her parents drove her out in the cadillac. >> but it made her father furious when he realized that it was snobby eastern liberal girls school and never visited her until her graduation. but it was fascinating a high school friend which he gave me. crisis. she thought she had to select her identity and laid them out like a snog as board and said should i have a pseudo hippie, because she didn't care about her appearance but a moral the rye and hated it. but said i don't like peoplebgt very much and maybe i'm a miss an tloep. and she.ì and she finally came to a decision, she chose her identity which was shervg might as well she couldn't stand intros

you spend several pages in your biography talking about her invitation to speak at wellesley college. >> that's right. >> what was the source of the controversy there? >> well, she had been invited to be the commencement speaker in june of 1990. and a few weeks after she accepted, 150 of the 600 wellesley seniors who were graduating sent a petition saying they felt that she was an inappropriate speaker because anything that she had achieved in life was because of who she was married to. so there was a short period where perhaps maybe mrs. bush thought this is isn't a great idea. but instead, she sort of finessed it, and she said, you know what? i was 21 once myself, and i questioned things, and i think that i have things to tell them. so she let them know that she was going to give the speech. she invited raisa gorbachev, the wife of premier gorbachev, who would be visiting at the same time, and the two of them went up to wellesley. >> we have a little clip from her address to the graduating class at wellesley that year. >> now, i know your first choice today was alice walker. [ laugh

. >> we have a little clip from her address to the graduating class at wellesley that year. >> (begin video clip) >> barbara bush now, i know your first choice today was alice walker. >> barbara bush guess how i know? known for "the color purple." instead you got me, known for the color of my hair. >> barbara bush for over 50 years, it was said that the winner of wellesley's annual hoop race would be the first to get married. now they say the winner will be the first to become a ceo. both of those stereotypes show too little tolerance for those who want to know where the mermaids stand. (applause) so i want to offer a new legend. the winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream -- not societies dream, her own personal dream. (applause) and who knows? somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day following my footsteps and preside over the white house as the presidents spouse. and i wish them well. >> i don't want to spend too much time on this, but in your book, you wrote about the fact this was classic barbara bush -- she was one to win over th

. >> 1990, wellesley college. this is a speech you gave. -- >> it was a difficult speech. they objected to my speech. -- incidentally, it happened that gorbachev was coming with her husband, and i could not leave her, so i invited her to speak with me. i got highly criticized by them saying, she does not there come by herself. she's taking her to protect her. it was a difficult speech. it turned out, there was one student from south america who we were treating to this great education, and a girl from maine. they are to before the speech, the girl from maine called and said, i'm so embarrassed this is built into a great thing. i was getting calls from president nixon saying, you tell those girls to go to the devil. i had a lot of people for me, but i did not want to get into spitting fight with the girls, but there it was. rice, on the plane, going up, it was ridiculous, she did not speak any english. we had an interpreter, and she said, i said do you mind if i work on my speech a little bit? she said, are you giving a speech? i said, well you are as well. she said, i am?

so michael worked on that, and then i also knew of a project he had done at wellesley where he used nativeplants and wildflowers. i knew that's what i wanted to do here on the grounds. so i had already started working with each of those committees, the design committee for the library and then with the other presidential library directorsg and foundation members. so in a lot of ways i started to anticipate what the next part of ike. i say in speeches that now we're living what i call the afterlife in the state george called the promiseland, of course, because that's what texas is to us. we love it here, so it was great to be back home. >> it's from press reports, you have been very active in the library, in the institute, in getting it started. but what about when you're invited to speak? or contribute to a political cause? what's your -- >> i do speak. i'm on the speaker circuit. i speak all over the country. i had even a speech in germany last summer, but that was to the lions club international with a lot of americans but a lot of people from all parts of the world as well. and i choose

there are obvious hats —— hotspots of devon and cornwall and north wellesley get snapped up weekly.umberland and norfolk and the scottish coast as well. and think a bit more imaginatively about the kind of holiday you want to do. cottages tend to book out very, very quickly. you could go is on a cycling to go glamping or a boat holiday. there has been a surge in those. think about what you do as well as where you stay and you might find more options open up. you know, have been on the scottish coast and norfolk and they have opened my eyes to the british coastline. gail is typical of those. here is what she told us. i was looking forward to go on holiday on saturday, a much longed for and awaited holiday in majorca. we expected to go. it may sound a year. we watched the news on the turn of events and we really started to believe that we were going. arena to blatantly say we will still run the flights, whether you are on them or not, you have paid your seats, tough, is actually quite appalling —— for rae lamb. and they can't understand how that hasn't been challenged. pepper, what pe