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Jeb Bush impresses as keynote at College’s Governmental Forum Keeps his obligation despite mother’s passing the day before
By Dee Longfellow
were in real trouble,” said Daniels. Bush talked about his mother and A few people were biting their her legacy, including telling a little nails and pacing the floor on Tues- joke about those who praised her. day, April 17, after learning political matriarch Barbara Bush had His mother and her legacy “People sometimes come up to me passed away on that day at the age of 92. The concern was that with and say, ‘you know, I just love your Mrs. Bush’s death, her son Jeb Bush mother,’ and that was code for ‘I’m might cancel his plans to be the key- a Democrat and I can’t stand you,’” note speaker at the Elmhurst College he said, drawing a laugh from the auGovernmental Forum that took place dience. “My dad’s really struggling on Wednesday, April 18. Many peo- right now, he held her hand all day ple made phone calls and sent text yesterday (Tuesday). I talked to him messages the night before to see after she passed and he said, ‘I’m what was going on, but all they really afraid I’m a bit of a crybaby today.’” Bush said his father was physicalneeded to do was visit the Elmhurst College web site to learn that the for- ly in better shape than he was about mer Florida governor would indeed a month ago, but that he was “in and keep his commitment and turn out to out, mentally.” “If I ever talked and used the lanaddress the 700 people gathered at guage like some of the politicians the Oak Brook Hills Hotel. At the event, Bush offered a in this day and age, [my mother] would have ‘whipped my butt,’” he no-nonsense explanation. “Believe me, my mother would said, “and, occasionally, she did it want me to keep my obligation to anyway! My mother was my first Elmhurst College and the 700 guests teacher. Mom and Dad taught us attending this Forum,” he explained. right from wrong, taught us to serve “In fact, she would have been angry others, to be civil and above all else, if I had passed on coming to this love your family. They acted on their love for 75 years.” event.” Following about a 30-minute adLee Daniels, former House Speaker and senior advisor to Elmhurst dress by Bush, he sat down for a College president Troy VanAken, conversation with R. Bruce Dold, was the chief organizer of the Col- publisher and Editor-in-Chief for the lege’s 11th Annual Governmental Chicago Tribune. Forum, entitled “Leadership in a Changing World: A Conversation The quest to sustain with Governor Jeb Bush.” After his quality education Bush serves as Chairman of the own welcome that included a salute to the sponsors and recognition Foundation for Excellence in Educaof others responsible for the event, tion, clearly following in his mothDaniels made the introduction of er’s footsteps in that she was such Bush, saying he had no doubt he an advocate for education. In fact, would keep his commitment to the he said his message during the 2016 presidential race was to push qualievent. “His mother was the type of person ty education – a subject Bush was that, if you broke an obligation, you rarely allowed to address due to the FOR THE ADDISON INDEPENDENT
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Elmhurst College President Troy and Annette VanAken greet Jeb Bush (right), the invited presenter to this year’s Elmhurst College Governmental Forum, which took place at Oak Brook Hills Hotel in Wednesday, April 18. There was concern that the former two-term Florida Governor might cancel due to the death of his mother Barbara Bush just the day before, but he assured the crowd that his mother would have wanted him to be there. In fact, “she would never forgive me if I didn’t keep this obligation,” he said.
direction the debates typically took. “If you look at how political it got, what I saw was that we were missing the opportunity to fix what needed to be fixed,” he said. “People don’t see the future as bright as they used to. Our parents’ [generation] raised their children to do better than they
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did and most of us were able to do that. Today, it may not be the same. People feel their children may have less opportunity than they did.” He said upward mobility has been cut in half. In the 1920s, children could expect to do 85 percent as well as their parents did, but in the 1980s,
the next generation could do about 50 percent better than the prior. Bush added that the workers’ skills gap was growing. “While the high school graduation rate is at 83 percent right now,
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