While her husband may not have the same bond with Laura, there’s a simple explanation for that. As Bush once told Jimmy Kimmel, “Well, he doesn’t sit next to her in the funerals.”
But the former first ladies have developed a bond over the years, too. During a joint panel at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in 2014, The Light We Carry writer called her predecessor “not just a role model but also a friend.” And Laura has spoken about the sisterhood first ladies can share.
“There’s a certain sort of sorority or club, I think, among people who are also first ladies,” she told the BBC in 2013. “We have a lot of things that we can talk about that no one else would really understand.”
Ultimately, Michelle has expressed her belief that Americans are craving more of these bipartisan moments.
“They’re hungry for what we all know—that party doesn’t separate us, color, gender, those kinds of things don’t separate us,” she continued in her 2018 Today interview. “It’s the messages that we send. If we’re the adults and the leaders in the room and we’re not showing that level of decency, we cannot expect our children to do the same. So that’s what I think about when I think about the gestures and the symbols and what our words mean and the impact that it has: I think about the next generation—every single time.”
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