WASHINGTON, Oct 22: Barbara Bush, former first lady and mother of the current US president, writes candidly about the different governing styles of her husband and son in her memoirs.

Published on Tuesday, her book “Reflections: Life After the White House” says this about her husband and former president George Bush (1989-1993): “... the greatest thing he did was to teach us how to keep the peace by staying close to our allies.”

In that time, her eldest son George W. Bush climbed the political ladder to become governor of Texas in 1994 and US president in 2001.

Barbara Bush, who descends from US president Franklin Pierce (1853-1857), does not conceal her pride in being at the center of the Bush political clan.—AFP