Barbara Bush says she doesn't miss "one darn thing" about the White House.
Still, she said she believes she had an easier time being first lady than her successor, Hillary Rodham Clinton."I didn't have a hard row to hoe because I chose a much more passive role than Mrs. Clinton has," Barbara Bush told Good Housekeeping magazine.
"I thought I could do the most good if I let George Bush do the job he was elected to do and I did the job I wanted to do, which was make literacy an important part of every American family."
She has mixed feelings about the media: "They were wonderful to me but just awful to George," she said.
Asked if she sees similarities between herself and Hillary Clinton, she mentioned a couple: "We're both young and good looking."