Arnold Schwarzenegger, George H.W. The broken leg of Bush and Barbara Bush: what did he really go by sled in 1991?

In an interview on Sunday at CNN's "State of the Union," Jake Tapper interviewed Schwarzenegger about a photo of him and the 41st president on a presidential retirement slide. There was a lot of snow and we had this toboggan and (Bush) was trying to teach me how to slide it because I only had the habit of sledding with Austrian sledges, which you run a little with your feet. out of control, and of course we crushed Barbara Bush, who broke her leg after that. That's why he sent me this photo. "

But in 1991, the Washington Post and the New York Times both reported that the first lady had broken her leg when she hit a tree after slipping on an icy hill on a saucer sled. The two newspapers announced that Schwarzenegger, who was president of the President's Council on Fitness and Sports, was present at the time.

Anna Perez, Barbara Bush's press officer at the time, told The Post and the Times that the president had shouted "Bail out! Bail out!" when he saw Barbara Bush go down the hill. "She does not know why she did not bail out." She just held up and the next thing she knew, was that there was a tree, "she said. Perez told the newspapers.

Schwarzenegger wrote about this incident in his memoirs: "Total Recall: My Incredibly Real Story."

"The president and I went down the hill too quickly and crushed Barbara, she found herself in the hospital with a broken leg," he said on page 397. "J & # 39 always have the picture that President Bush sent me afterwards. "

Later Sunday, Fredricka Whitfield, presenter of "CNN Newsroom", asked Bush 's son, Neil Bush, to clarify Schwarzenegger' s comments and to remember the events of the order.

"About the concept of the accident and your mom, you know, break his leg, then does he say that he caused your mother's leg fracture?" or did she break her leg in a different way? " Whitfield asked. "Because there are different stories out there, what is your – what do you remember?"

"Well, she broke her leg running in one – I was not there, but she broke her leg running in a tree," he said. .

CNN asked Schwarzenegger for clarification, but he was in Europe and did not answer Sunday night.

The actor and seven-time winner of Mr. Olympia has fondly remembered his experiences with the former president of Camp David and elsewhere during his interview Sunday morning.

"We had a really good time at Camp David," he told Tapper. "And as I said, it was a great learning experience, you know, hanging out around him, he was both a mentor and a kind of father figure."