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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi highlighted her heat and longstanding relationship with the Bush household in an interview with MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.
“We were friends. He was such a lovely man,” Pelosi instructed Psaki of her friendship with President George H.W. Bush, who died in 2018.
Pelosi joined MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” the place the previous speaker mentioned the upcoming election, President Biden dropping out of the race, her new guide, “The Art of Power,” in addition to her decades-long friendship with the Bush household.
“You also speak glowingly – I kind of love this part of the book – about the Bush family, specifically George H.W. Bush. Your family goes way back. But you even have some nice things to say about his son, George W. Bush, which might surprise people who read the book because you were a strong opponent of the Iraq War,” Psaki requested Pelosi in an interview that aired Sunday.
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First girl Barbara Bush and President George H.W. Bush are proven through the National Medal of Arts ceremony on the White House on Nov. 19, 1989. (Ron Sachs/CNP/Getty Images)
Pelosi stated she first shaped a relationship with George H.W. Bush within the late Nineteen Eighties as the 2 sparred over insurance policies in China after the Tiananmen Square bloodbath.
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“I went in there [Congress], started fighting against our policy on China right after Tiananmen Square. I came in ‘87, that happened in ’89. So, I had a disagreement with President George Herbert Walker Bush on that. But we kind of – it was a difference of opinion. It wasn’t an animosity. It was just policy, it wasn’t personal,” Pelosi defined.
Nancy Pelosi in 2021 (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/File)
A friendship quickly bloomed between the 2 earlier than H.W.’s son, George W. Bush, was sworn in as president in 2001. Pelosi additionally struck up a pleasant relationship with the forty third president regardless of the pair’s political variations, she stated within the interview.
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“When President George W. Bush was being sworn in, I, as is the custom, go to the … the White House to escort him to the Capitol. And he said, ‘My father and mother will be here.’ And I said, ‘Well, I can’t wait to see him. He’s a sweetheart.’ And he said, ‘Why does everybody say that about him and not about me?’” Pelosi stated whereas smiling concerning the encounter.
She additionally recounted within the interview that in President George W. Bush’s administration, Pelosi joined a Christmas gathering on the White House the place H.W. Bush got here as much as her and chit-chatted about household, earlier than he quipped, “Madam Speaker, give my kid a break.”
“Such a great story,” Psaki responded whereas laughing concerning the trade. “I mean, every parent can relate to that.”
Pelosi launched her guide, “The Art of Power,” this month, which repeatedly cites the Bush household and her “warm relationship” with H.W. Bush and first girl Barbara Bush.
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Former President George W. Bush is proven with House Democrat chief Nancy Pelosi at an arrival service for former President George H.W. Bush as his physique lies in state within the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Dec. 3, 2018. (Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images)
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Pelosi’s interview comes after the 2024 presidential election took a flip final month, when Biden dropped out of the race after mounting issues over his psychological acuity. Amid the hypothesis that Biden would drop out, the Associated Press reported that leaders inside the Democratic Party, resembling former President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Pelosi, have been reportedly working within the background to encourage Biden to drop out as a consequence of issues he couldn’t defeat former President Trump.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi talks with President Biden within the East Room of the White House on June 13, 2022. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Pelosi has denied hypothesis that she helped lead a coup to strain Biden to exit the race, however she revealed this month that she has not spoken to Biden since he dropped out of the race.
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“Is everything OK with your relationship?” CNN’s Dana Bash requested Pelosi throughout an interview this month.
“You’d have to ask him,” Pelosi answered. “But I hope so.”
Psaki pressed Pelosi in her interview that aired Sunday whether or not there’s a “way back for your friendship?”
“In our family, we have three generations of love for Joe Biden. My husband and I, of course, we’ve known him for a very long time – respect him, love him and Jill. He and Jill are so remarkable and their family. Our kids have always loved them. I had pictures with him from our children growing up and now our grandchildren growing up,” Pelosi responded.
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“But the most important thing we have to do is to win the election, just to sustain his legacy, and to have the legacy be to do even more in the presidency and the vice presidency of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” Pelosi continued.
