patty davis is now outfront. i appreciate your time. we're looking at pictures of the rotunda, where now members of the public can come see him, as well as members of his staff, i want to get to the op ed in a moment, as we see people morning, we saw president bush's children mourning today. all cameras on them, not easy. much like you had to go through in 2004 when your father died. what went through your mind today? >> it looked so familiar every time i would see the pictures online or turn on television and watch what was going on. you know, i was sort of back there again. and it's -- it's a strange thing grieving in public, there's something fulfilling about it, you do have this feeling that the country is grieving with you. you feel like you're in this huge bubble and a lot of people are there with you, when it's over, you know that your time of private grieving has to begin. and that's harder, it's actually a little bit, in a strange way, it's easier to grieve in public because it's like, everybody's holding you above the waterlin

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. >> jon meachem, patti davis was on tv and talking about the mourning process for a public family. talking about her own experience with her dad and her mom and now the bushes with the first lady and the president. there is public grieving, which you are forced to share with all of us on lookers in hd live television. imagine how intrusive any of us would find it if someone brought a single iphone to a funeral of a family member and tried to snap a picture and multiply that. i guess i'm asking about their ability to proceed with what's going to be painful, private grieving. this has been their north star for three quarters of the american century. >> absolutely. i remember in mrs. bush's diary, she writes about both the kennedy funeral in 1963 and rfk's funeral in 1968 and reflecting on the issue you raised about how painful it is for mrs. kennedy, jacqueline kennedy and ethyl kennedy for the children and how glaring and upsetting that must be. interestingly, the bushes are shaped by attention between two forces. one is absolute dignity and the other is absolute tear duct activity.

. >> jon meacham, patti davis was on tv tonight, and she was talking about the mourning process for a public family. talking about her own experience with her dad and her mom. and now the bushes with the first lady and the president. there's public grieving, which you are forced to share with all of us onlookers in hd live television. imagine how intrusive any of us would find it in someone brought a single iphone to a funeral of one our family members and tried to snap a picture. and then multiply that. so i guess i'm asking about their ability to proceed with what's going to be painful private grieving. this has been their north star for 3/4 of the american century. >> absolutely. and i remember in mrs. bush's diary, barbara pierce bush's diary he had writes about the kennedy funeral in 1964 and rfk's funeral in 1968 and reflecting on just the issue you raised about how painful it is for mrs. kennedy, for jacqueline kennedy and then for ethel kennedy for the children and now glaring and upsetting that must be. interestingly, the bushes are shaped by a tension between two forces. one

one avenue of criticism this morning of the president comes from patty davis, the daughter of ronald reagan. there is an inherently parental role to being the president of the united states. the person holding the office is supposed to know more than we do about the dangers of the world and is supposed to keep us from falling. what happens when the president is the biggest child in the room or any room? i'm not sure the country has fully comprehended the damage being done by a president to his misbehaving so frequently, it it is a new story when he does not. davis's column, "the washington post. steve, you are up next. caller: i've been listening to some of your people calling in people that are on the republican side, they are talking about socialism. i cannot believe these people have got blinders on. youyou want to talk about socialism, the guy from florida ,entioned, free education paying 35% in taxes. this is what the democratic party wants to do all along. , theo help the people kids, got to college, go to where they got to go and the a good citizen and working citizen and prov