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The wedding of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce. Full Caption
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The wedding of George Herbert Walker "Poppy" Bush and Barbara "Bar" Pierce in Rye, New York, on January 6, 1945. From left: Jonathan Bush, Nancy Bush, George (home from the Navy), Barbara, Prescott, Dorothy, Prescott junior, and his wife, Elizabeth, and William Henry Trotter Bush, known as Bucky. Barbara, who said she married the first man who kissed her, became closer to his family than she was to her own.

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