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Barbara Bush: Housekeeper Kept Fetus

Says her son’s memoir is wrong.

Former President Bush’s fact checker should have called his mother: Barbara Bush says her son’s story about the time she showed him a jar containing a fetus she miscarried is incorrect—though she does confirm that there was a fetus in a jar. It was put there by her housekeeper, Paula Rendon, who also showed it to a teenaged George W. Bush. “I was shocked when she gave it to him,” Barbara Bush told Larry King. The fetus was brought to the hospital after Bush’s miscarriage.

Read it at Talking Points Memo

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