USPS Dedicates Barbara Bush Postal Stamp

Bush: ‘Mother would put her stamp of approval on it.’

Former President George W. Bush makes remarks during the first-day-of-issue ceremony of the commemorative stamp honoring his mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush, in Kennebunkport, Maine. (Image by Sam DeCoste via X)

Friends and family members of former First Lady Barbara Bush gathered in Kennebunkport, Maine, Tuesday where the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring the wife of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, two days after what would have been her 100th birthday.

From the podium, George W. Bush, the 43rd president, gazed at his mother’s portrait during the first-day-of-issue ceremony held at Ganny's Garden on the Green, a garden dedicated to Mrs. Bush in 2011 near the family's vacation home.

“This is a beautiful job,” the former president said. “I would say that mother would put her stamp of approval on it.”

The former president went to talk about how much family meant to his mother, who was first lady from 1989 to 1993.

“Family is really important to …