Protests, politics, controversy and Russians! No, not today’s headlines—Barbara Bush’s 1990 commencement address at Wellesley College.
That spring, the Cold War was winding down, Donald Trump was king of the New York tabloids for nothing having to do with politics, and the first lady was the subject of a national controversy. Days after she was announced in March as Wellesley’s commencement speaker, 150 students at the prestigious women’s college in suburban Massachusetts signed petitions declaring themselves “outraged” at...