I heard very much the same about GHW Bush and Barbra. I had heard Barbra referred to as "the Grandma everyone wished they had".
Ronald Reagan likewise was a kind gentleman to his agents. Nancy, well she was no Barbra that's for sure. She was not nearly as warm and friendly. She she was extremely protective of Ronald and wanted everything to be perfect. This perfectionism sometimes caused her to get upset about little things. But she did have a good heart.
"I heard very much the same about GHW Bush and Barbra. I had heard Barbra referred to as 'the Grandma everyone wished they had'."
Back in the mid-90s, I had an Air Force NCO working for me who had spent some time on the White House Comm staff during the Bush 41 years. Whenever asked, she made of point of saying, "we're not allowed to discuss their personal lives" [meaning the Bush family], but she was willing to tell one story. She said she was on a team laying fiber optic cable at the Kennebunkport compound, and in Maine it gets cold in the wintertime. She said all of a sudden, everybody behind her stopped talking, so she stood up in the middle of the ditch and looked behind her over the dirt bank -- and there was Barbara Bush (alone) bringing the crew a tray of mugs and a big pot of hot chocolate...