Here, for your holiday enjoyment, is another selection from Bill Adler’s First Mom: the Wit and Wisdom of Barbara Bush:

What convinced George W. Bush to run for president? According to Time magazine, it happened at a prayer service with his family in Janary 2000.

”Pastor Mark Craig started preaching about duty, about how Moses tried to resist God’s call, and the sacrifice that leadership requires. And as they sat there, Barbara Bush leaned over to the son who has always been most like her and said, ‘He’s talking to you, George.’”