Bush, Barbara, 1925-2018

Report on the annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in San Antonio, Texas, October 30-31, 1998. The report covers the dinner, speakers, tours, TRA elections, and the conferring of TRA awards. The report highlights the presentation of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal and the TRA Junior Officer of the Year Award, and it details changes made to the governance of the TRA, including the creation of an Advisory Board and changes to the terms and expectations of members of the Board of Trustees. Eight photographs from the meeting populate the text, including five of President George Bush, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1999

Creator(s)

Unknown

John A. Gable provides a brief biography of Barbara Bush, recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal in 1998, in which he highlights her support of literacy programs and her own achievements as a writer. Gable compares Bush to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt as a First Lady. A photograph of Bush appears at the center of the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1998-10-31

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.

The front cover of this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal features a photograph of President George Bush and his wife Barbara Bush, winners of the 1998 Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal. The back cover has a photograph of some of the officers of the Rough Riders assembled to eat in San Antonio, Texas in 1898.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1999

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

This section of the journal covers twelve topics including a brief report on the 1998 annual meeting which saw the conferring of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal to former President George Bush and his wife Barbara Bush. It also highlights a revival of the play Bully! starring actor John Davidson, the results of a survey of historians rating twentieth-century presidents, and the opening of an exhibition on Theodore Roosevelt at the National Portrait Gallery. “News and Notes” also discusses whether Roosevelt believed in the legend of a Sasquatch or Bigfoot creature, relays news from the The Friends of Sagamore Hill cooperating association, and notes the launching of a Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) website. The section closes with a listing of the members of the executive committee of the TRA along with the members of the Board of Trustees classes of 1999, 2000, and 2001, and with a text box indicating that this issue of the journal is dedicated to P. James Roosevelt. 

Five photographs of President Bush at the annual meeting appear in the section. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal