As he [President George H. W. Bush] was giving me instructions for a new task, he noticed I was troubled. He stopped the conversation and asked what was bothering me. I told him about the letter.
He immediately said he would like to meet with her.
Brent Scowcroft was not happy when he found out I had mentioned the letter to the President. He insisted the President should not meet with a woman who wanted to call him a murderer to his face.
Nevertheless, the meeting was arranged.
- From Deputy White House chief of staff Andy Card's account of a meeting that President George H. W. Bush had with the mother of Private First Class James Markwell, who was killed during the invasion of Panama. From Character Matters ... and Other Life Lessons from George H. W. Bush by Jean Becker
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