House : `` But in the years since , it has become acceptable to mock candidates and their families , and other elected officeholders , in highly personal ways ; David Letterman feels free to ridicule Sarah Palin 's teenage daughters , and the audience laughs . Book says she and husband became ill , husband bedridden , in Texas . Barbara Bush says 1963 car crash in Texas that killed schoolmate caused loss of faith . Criticism of president from New York Times majority leader , House speaker graceless , she says . Mrs. Bush says her mother-in-law , Bush , can be `` ferociously tart-tongued ''
House : Book says she and husband became ill , husband bedridden , in Texas . Barbara Bush says 1963 car crash in Texas that killed schoolmate caused loss of faith . Criticism of president from New York Times majority leader , House speaker graceless , she says . Mrs. Bush says her mother-in-law , Bush , can be `` ferociously tart-tongued ''