Texas News Barbara Bush, First Lady and Literacy Champion, Took a Bold Approach to the AIDS Epidemic KWBU | By Texas Standard Published April 18, 2018 at 12:43 PM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 10:40 George Bush Presidential Library George and Barbara Bush in Houston, Texas on the night George Bush was elected to Congress. “The image of the First Lady of the United States holding to her chest a dying child really reworked the entire notion of AIDS for many people around the country.”