Mosbacher’s Inaugural Deja Vu
Houston oilman Robert Mosbacher isn’t surprised to be attending his second Bush inauguration. Only he thought it would be for the elder George Bush. “He strongly deserved a second term,” said the first President Bush’s former commerce secretary, campaign fundraiser and all-around good buddy after sharing breakfast with The Post’s Annie Groer. “If you’d asked me if I’d be coming to an inaugural now, I’d have said, ‘I don’t think so — there’s not a third term.’ ”
Well. Here Mosbacher is — tan, fit and 73 — celebrating the ascension of his close friend’s son. “I’m thrilled for Dubya,” he told us yesterday. “This time I’m here as an observer and to see old friends. Last time I was excited and probably nervous, trying not to do anything that might fall under the expression ‘screwing up.’ ”
Another big difference from last time around: Instead of making the scene with redhead Republican fundraiser Georgette Mosbacher, his attention-getting third wife, he’s in town with his fourth, Houston writer Mica McCutchen Mosbacher, whom he wed last July on her 47th birthday.
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“She’s obviously beautiful, but she’s also bright and fun and interested in living life at my pace,” Mosbacher told Groer. Mica reciprocated: “He’s fit, he’s fun, he’s spontaneous, he’s kind, and he cares a whole lot about his family.” Widowed once and divorced twice, he has four grown children; she’s the mother of a 14-year-old boy from her first marriage.
The lovebirds were introduced two years ago at a party for yachtsman Buddy Melges at Houston’s Bayou Club. She accepted his dinner invitation. When he arrived to pick her up, she’d just finished jogging and was still in running gear. His opening line: “That’s an ugly brown jacket.” He proposed last April en route to an Astros game but warned her to “tell no one. I’m too old to be engaged.”
As for Georgette, whom he pays $32,000 a month in alimony, Mosbacher said he’s not worried about the prospect of crossing paths with her in this week’s swirl of parties: “It doesn’t matter. I wish her all the best.”
Mica and Robert Mosbacher.
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Hodge: Rains don’t dampen Spanish royal wedding
THE rain in Spain fell mainly on the royal wedding Saturday. But the showers failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the 1,700 dignitaries and royals attending the storybook nuptials of Crown PrinceFelipe and Letizia Ortiz. Just ask Mica and Bob Mosbacher, who were among the VIPs in the cathedral for the ceremony. “It was fabulous,” Mica said Tuesday, just back from Spain.
The Mosbachers were among an elite handful also invited to a late-night dinner with the bride and groom and the royal family at Zarzuela Palace, residence of King Juan Carlos and QueenSofia. Among guests — the king of Norway and the king of Sweden. “I told Bob we were the only nonroyals there,” Mica laughed.
The Mosbachers’ access to the royal inner sanctum evolved over many decades. Bob met then-Crown Prince Juan Carlos in a sailing competition in Denmark in 1967. A beautiful friendship was formed. They regularly sailed against one another in international races. In 1969, Juan Carlos and Sofia came to Houston to celebrate his 30th birthday with Bob as their host.
Mica Mosbacher on Fox News – Barbara Bush
Mica Mosbacher: “[Barbara Bush] was a mother first, and she was fiercely protective of her children, and God help anyone who criticized them – she’d eat them alive.”
Former First Lady Barbara Bush remembered
Former First Lady Barbara Bush has died at her family home, aged 92.
She was the wife of George H. W. Bush and the mother of George W. Bush, two US Presidents.
She’s being remembered as having wicked sense of humour, and being the backbone of a family that changed the United States.
Listen to the interview with Mica Mosbacher.
Mica Mosbacher featured on Whomyouknow.com
Click on the link below to read about Mica on Whomyouknow.com by Peachy Deegan featured Jan. 8, 2018
http://www.whomyouknow.com/2018/01/movers-and-shakers-mica-mosbacher.html
