Barbara Bush (b. 1925) is a former First Lady of the United States of America. She appeared on Sesame Street in a 1990 filmed segment, with Big Bird, the Count and the Kids, reading Peter's Chair. She also appeared in a celebrity montage singing "Sing" in the documentary Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music.

Barbara Bush was the first First Lady to appear on Sesame Street; Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama have since followed her lead.

Bush contributed a "Bologna for a Cocktail Buffet" recipe for the 1996 cookbook, In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy. She appeared with her husband, former President George H. W. Bush, in a video introduction to the 1990 animated anti-drug television special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.

Sesame Street Live characters have visited the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital/Maine Medical Center.

ReferencesEdit

• In the book The Muppets Make Puppets!, Barbara and her husband were caricatured as George and Barbara Brush.
• An Anything Muppet caricature of her appears as President Elmo's "third lady" in the "Elmo the Musical" segment, "President the Musical."

External linksEdit

• Sesamestreet.org (SSvideo)