Like Mother, Like Son: A Beautiful Mind

The quote’s over a year old, so I’ll let you read other peoples’s commentary on it, but it was mentioned on the front page of the June 8 Wall Street Journal in a front-page article titled “For Antiwar Vets, Former Comrades Are Toughest Sell,” spread across the jump to A8:

“…in March 2003, in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” [Barbara Bush] the former first lady complained that TV newscasts were speculating too much about the impending war. “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths?” she said, adding, “I mean it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” [emphasis added]