Bush 'tried to milk a horse': "Tried to milk a horse
Laura Bush also joked about the president's mother Barbara Bush. 'People think she's a sweet grandmotherly aunt Bea type. She's actually more like (fictional Mafia capo) Don Corleone.'
She said that that her husband actually knew little about ranching when they bought their ranch in Crawford, Texas.
'I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year, when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse,' she said.
The president now often spends time at the ranch clearing brush and cutting trails. 'George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chainsaw. Which I think is why he and Cheney and (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld get along so well.' "