" Through hear tears, she did not see opportunity. “How could you do this!” she cried to her son’s commander in chief. And then, thinking of Bush’s two children, who would never face combat: “THIS IS NOT YOUR DAUGHTER!”

On the helicopter ride back to the White House, Bush murmured to an aide, “that big black woman was really angry at me.”

He thought for a moment before adding, “I don’t blame here.” He turned to the window of Marine One and said nothing else. "

― Robert Draper , Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush