bush? he said he did, and then he said, she was so beautiful. brian: at the end of the book, you discuss a lot with her about dying. what was her position -- was she 92 when she died? susan: yes. brian: what was her position on dying? susan: she was ready to die. she was mentally sharp but physically and a lot of pain. she was not afraid to die, she was a person of great faith so dying was not the end of things. but she worried about him, she worried about her husband and how would he do if she died first? both of them worried about that, how the other would fare if they died first and i think it kept her alive a while, not wanting to leave him. but the time came when her physical health was in such decline that her life was going final and they had this conversation in the din of their den of their home, where i interviewed her while doing the book, and they gave each other kind of permission to move on. george said to barbara, i'm not going to worry about you, and she said to him, i am no

bush? he said he did, and then he said, she was so beautiful. brian: at the end of the book, you discuss a lot with her about dying. what was her position -- was she 92 when she died? susan: yes. brian: what was her position on dying? susan: she was ready to die. brian: why? susan: she was mentally sharp but physically in a lot of pain. she was not afraid to die, she was a person of great faith so dying was not the end of things. but she worried about him, she worried about her husband and how would he do if she died first? both of them worried about that, both of them worried about how the other would fare if they died first and i think it kept her alive for a while, the idea that she did not want to leave him. but the time came when her physical health was in such decline that her life was going to end and they had this final conversation in the den of their home, a place where i sat and interviewed her while doing the book, and they gave each other kind of permission to move on. george b

bush administration. many of his advisers argue leave while we still can and at least stop the hemorrhaging of american lives. george bush refuses to accept that as an option. >> he announces a radical plan in an attempt to bring stability to the country. >> this will require increasing american force levels. so i have committed more than 20,000 additional american troops to iraq. >> i think it was one of the most difficult decisions i have ever seen any leader take at any point in time that i have looked at politics over the last 30 years. >> he had no idea if going and continuing in this war would lead to success or defeat. >> the president got directly involved in the surge, how to manage it and whether or not we were succeeding. >> to the surprise of many and to the relief of many more, the surge actually worked. >> u.s. officials in iraq say violence is down since this summer's troop build up. >> it took several months but it managed to stabilize the major cities. >> look, whatever you think of georg

bush. what was that like to be on the campaign trail with mr. bush? >> it was a very interesting time. he had a political action committee called the fund for limited government. he had two employees. one was karl rove. he had to spend more time in the office so fortunately, the job opened up for me. our other employee was martin tutwiler who became ambassador to morocco and spokesperson at the state department. i was the third person hired. was --ry baker said, he ambassador when we started. , minorityward baker leader of the senate, bob dole, john connolly, former governor of texas, secretary of treasury, two ellis -- illinois congressman, so nobody gave us a shot. he was the last man standing once the big primaries, michigan, pennsylvania, massachusetts, connecticut, iowa caucus. we went to the convention in 1980. it will be the last convention sure, the last time where somebody, the nominees went to the convention without having picked a vp nominee. really had settled in his own mind whom he was going to pick. bush wast president probably a logica

bush administration. many of his advisers argue leave while we still can and at least stop the hemorrhaging of american lives. george bush refuses to accept that as an option. >> george bush announces a radical plan in an attempt to bring stability to the country. >> this require increasing american force levels. so i've committed more than 20,000 additional american troops to iraq. i. >> i think it was one of the most difficult decisions i've ever seen any leader take at any point in time that i've looked at politics over the last 30 years. >> he had no dale if going and continuing in this war would lead to success or defeat. >> the president got directly involved in the surge, how to manage it, and whether or not we were succeeding. >> to the surprise of many and to the relief of many more, the surge actually worked. >> u.s. officials in iraq say violence is down since this summer's troop buildup. >> it took several months but it managed to stabilize the major cities. >> look, whatever you think of geor

bush. -- george h w bush. what a better place it would be. [applause] >> i want to thank secretary baker and this wonderful panel. what a special conversation. [applause] >> if you have not done so already, put on your calendar march 5. our next program, an insiders look at camp david, which launches our special exhibit open that same week in the museum away from the white house, a at presidential retreats. we will see you at the next event. [applause] announcer: from george washington to george w. bush, every sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, we feature the presidency. a weekly series exploring the presidents, their politics, and legacies. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> 40 years ago on march 26, ,979, president jimmy carter the egyptian prime minister, and israeli prime minister signed the camp david accords. a peace treaty between egypt and israel. anhotographer took award-winning photo of the three leaders as they reached the agreement. here he is. >> you mentioned doing photography of a couple pre

bush? he said he did, and then he said, she was so beautiful. brian: at the end of the book, you discuss a lot with her about dying. what was her position -- was she 92 when she died? susan: yes. brian: what was her position on dying? susan: she was ready to die. she was mentally sharp but physically and a lot of pain. she was not afraid to die, she was a person of great faith so dying was not the end of things. but she worried about him, she worried about her husband and how would he do if she died first? both of them worried about that, how the other would fare if they died first and i think it kept her alive a while, not wanting to leave him. but the time came when her physical health was in such decline that her life was going to end and they had this final conversation in the den of their home, where i interviewed her while doing the book, and they gave each other kind of permission to move on. george bush said to barbara bush, i'm not going to worry about you, and she said to him, i a

bush often said, where would we be without friends? he once said of you that you are a man to whom friendship means everything. three years after your last tennis championship, you suffered a tragedy when your first wife, mary stuart, passed away with cancer. leaving you with four young sons. at that tragic time, how did your friend george bush step up and support you? mr. baker: well, we were close. he and barbara were the last people to see mary stuart before -- other than her family, the last people other than her family to see her before she left into a coma and died. they came to see her the day before and she went into the final coma. they came to the hospital on a number of occasions. he was very, very supportive of me. and it was after her death that he came to me and he said, you know, bake, you have to take your mind off your grief. how about helping me run for the senate? i said, well george, that is a great idea. except for two things. number one, i don't know anything about politics. i was a lawyer trying to make it into c

bush: now the board of the bush institute. ms. dobriansky: your leadership on the institute, respectively, both of you, was truly exemplary. another area where your leadership was exemplary was in regards to afghanistan. both of you are very invested in afghanistan and ensuring that al qaeda's safe haven was not only obliterated, but you worked to ensure that it would not come back. talk about some of the profound decisions you had to make. pres. bush: first decision was , after 9/11, i recognized this was a different kind of conflict as opposed to previous ideological conflicts, where there was a capital and a standing army and air force and spies. we were dealing with an enemy that could only thrive if they found the soft underbelly of failed states. therefore, part of the doctrine had to be if you harbor terrorists, you are equally as guilty as the terrorists. and in this case the taliban was harboring al qaeda. we give them a chance to turn them in, but they would not do it. so when the president says something, he has to mean

president bush, mrs. bush, great to see you again. thank you for this honor. 200 acres of mountain park. it is a rustic retreat, simple, single-story cabins, oak plank siding, cedar shake shingle roofs. just enough amenities. enough security of course, but very pleasant, simple place to go where many presidents have found that respite they're looking for. >> talk a little bit about your role and the staff. >> it is navy command. it's run by the navy. it's been that way since the roosevelt years. he took the sailors from the yacht that stewart talked about and the marines to guard it. so it's a navy command that operates and maintains the principal facility for the president. but on the weekends, it takes on that whole aura of being the place where the president and his family and guests can get away whether for their own personal use or for diplomatic purpose. >> and so presidents use this partly as a recreational retreat to get away. they also use it to entertain and host world leaders. tell us a little bit about what goes into a wor

bush presidential center, ken hirsch. [applause] ken: thank you and welcome to the engaged series presented by highland capital. i'm ken hirsch, introducer in chief. our goal here is to provide content you can't get anywhere else. we are honored today with this session to launch a wonderful insiders look at presidential retreats and a glimpse of what life looks like for a president outside of the white house. it's a fascination that some people have. we are delighted to take a deep dive into camp david, crawford, kenny bump port and the lbj ranch. tonight, we have a series of guests who can give us that special insight. to kick us off, i would like to introduce the 43rd president of the united states. [applause] mr. bush: this is a special moment for laura and me, because we have such fond memories of the presidential retreat. one of the things about a presidency that is hard to explain is, what it feels like to be in a bubble. you are kind of in a bubble, particularly in washington. the presidential retreats, for any pre

bush. -- george h w bush. what a better place it would be. [applause] >> i want to thank secretary baker and this wonderful panel. what a special conversation. [applause] >> if you have not done so already, put on your calendar march 5. our next program, an insiders look at camp david, which launches our special exhibit open that same week in the museum away from the white house, a at presidential retreats. we will see you at the next event. [applause] american history tv is on c-span3 every weekend. all of our programs are archived on our website at the span.org/history. you can watch lectures in college classrooms, tours of historic sites, archival films, and see our schedule of upcoming programs. today, we are at mail would. --mayowood we will learn about the three ayos who lived m here. mayowoodwe are at home was built in 1910 and 1911. they had three children. both of the boys were intrigued with medicine and watched her father do surgeries and things. they got involved in a very young age.

bush: okay. ms. dobrainsky: president bush -- mr. bush: thank you. ms. dobrainsky: this is significant. in your book "decision points," you said the most important part of your job was making decisions and chapter 12 was on the surge. that truly was a difficult decision, but it was a wise decision. it certainly was -- mr. bush: i agree with that. ms. dobrainsky: you could not pull troops out of iraq but instead to enhance it. strain it. mr. bush: why? because i thought we could achieve the goal of a functioning democracy in the middle east and ally in the war against terror. i had great faith in our military to help us achieve that goal. i felt that a with draul during a difficult -- withbd -- with drawal would have dispirited our military. it would have looked like the decision was a pure political decision and that would have been a political decision. i couldn't stomach the idea that people were saying that george w. is trying to save his own political skin by making a strategic decision by weakening our faith of others. the iraqis voted for a new con

bush presidential center, ken hirsch. [applause] ken: thank you and welcome to the engaged series presented by highland capital. i'm ken hirsch, introducer in chief. our goal here is to provide content you can't get anywhere else. we are honored today with this session to launch a wonderful insiders look at presidential retreats and a glimpse of what life looks like for a president outside of the white house. it's a fascination that some people have. we are delighted to take a deep dive into camp david, crawford, kennebunkport and the lbj ranch. tonight, we have a series of guests who can give us that special insight. to kick us off, i would like to introduce the 43rd president of the united states. [applause] mr. bush: this is a special moment for laura and me, because we have such fond memories of the presidential retreat. one of the things about a presidency that is hard to explain is, what it feels like to be in a bubble. you are kind of in a bubble, particularly in washington. the presidential retreats, for any presi

bush: now the board of the bush institute. ms. dobriansky: your leadership on the institute, respectively, both of you, was truly exemplary. another area where your leadership was exemplary was in regards to afghanistan. both of you are very invested in afghanistan and ensuring that al qaeda's safe haven was not only obliterated, but you worked to ensure that it would not come back. talk about some of the profound decisions you had to make. pres. bush: first decision was after 9/11 i recognized this was a different kind of conflict as opposed to previous ideological conflicts where there was a capital and a standing army and air force and spies. we were dealing with an enemy that could only thrive if they found the soft underbelly of failed states. therefore, part of the doctrine had to be if you harbor terrorists you are equally as guilty as the terrorists. and in this case the taliban was harboring al qaeda. we give them a chance to turn them in but they would not do it. so when the president says something, he has to mean it. a

week andristmas one president bush was there and president bush 41, and extended family. we had a service in the chapel that sunday, and we were distributed t-shirts and that had something like, evergreen chapel,-- evergreen christmas on it. at the end of the service, everyone left. the phone rang and it was president bush 41. issaid to me, chaplain, there any chance that barb and i could get a couple of those t-shirts? i said, of course. and ton the golf cart the cabin. always gracious, he invited me in and i had a cup of coffee and when i got ready to leave, president bush said, do you know why we wanted the seizures? -- t-shirts? he said, well, we stayed here and little longer than we anticipated this year. and we are running a little bit short of clean under close to where. at which time, i said, there is somebody here that can take care of that mantra need. and yet, he looked at -- laundry need, and yet, he looked at me and said, this is christmas week, i wouldn't ask somebody to do that for me during christmas week. then he looked and said, don't forget, it's their

barbara bush made no such commas. [laughter] she went to her son and said you're listening too much to vice president cheney and donald rumsfeld. advice he did not take and advice that people wish he had. >> yes, sir. right here.er ... we are going to get you a microphone also. >> one of the things that impressed me. >> can you speak into the microphone. >> at one time he asked for a big cut. [inaudible] then he refused to live in a mansion in the move to the bed.ment with just one >> this is true and his frugality is well-known. he would say i am cheap. that is how he cared or iced himself and a lot of it goes back to the seminary and his experience at the young age of living in the aesthetic image thatat is accurate and it was gd politics for him in many ways. it's hard to get them to buy a new suit because he'll say i have a h suit and what do i need another one for? ii think in many ways his contribution to california right now is having come and after arnold schwarzenegger facing a 26 billion-dollar with a b defi

bush, jeb bush, and neil bush. three of them. brian: the other two say no? susan:the other two declined. brian: did they give you a reason? susan: marvin bush simi a very nice email saying they were out of his interview business. which i understand that no one had an obligation to talk to me and i am grateful to everyone who did. brian: you quote neil, what does he do and where does he live now? susan: he lives in houston, basically across the street from his folks. he spent a lot of time with them. he has a business, he is very involved in educational related usinesses. he was a great interview about kind of the inter-workings of his mother's mind. he was the one person i interviewed who said, especially with the benefit of hindsight, that he understood when she was very depressed, and he wished he had seen the signs better. but anyway, yes, i interviewed neil bush. brian: this is neil bush. dad had an amazing relationship with bill clinton, but mom does not have the same affection for bill. she still remembers how bill beat dad, he apparently cheats in gol

the elevation from vice president bush to president bush was a little bit rocky. in his first year, especially early on in his first year, he suffered in comparison with president reagan, in particular, when it came to his instincts around public communication and his handling of the press. take, for example, this moment just a few months after poppy bush became president. this was may 1989. he'd been sworn in in january of that year. in may 1989 president george h.w. bush decided to make a very controversial, very provocativp, very bold public statement on foreign policy but did it in the most awkward inexplicable way possible which is exactly how the press reported it. >> his aides said the situation in panama was relatively quiet today and required no comments from the president, but mr. bush had a nagging feeling that he had not made his views on panama clear. that the panamanean people did not realize how much he hopes they will rise up against general loreaga so on fair force one, bush spoke out. >> person doing everything they can to have the will of the pe

bush. his new ballpark for his texas rangers opens and it's the house that george built. >> it's the most fabulous place to watch baseball ever built. >> with the texas rangers, he elevates his own profile even further and provides ultimately a great platform for him to launch his own political career. >> fans would come up to my dad every game and say are you going to run for governor? there was some sort of momentum and encouragement by strangers wanting him to run. >> let's make it official. i'm a candidate for governor of texas. >> george doesn't have elected office experience himself and he's only run once in 1978 for a house of representatives seat, which he lost. >> i appreciate you guys. thanks so much. >> bush is up against ann richards, a democrat in a state that traditionally votes democrat. >> they said don't do it. you are not going to win. ann richards is too popular. >> george w gives it back to her and said thanks for your advice, mom. i'll let you know when i need it. >> we

al gore calls bush. bush calls gore a good man and that's it. >> but there's no public concession from gore. >> going over what i said to my right because it just didn't feel right and sure enough, gore then changed his mind. >> it turns out, people in the gore team are thinking to themselves this is way too close to call. this is not over. so gore calls bush and says circumstances have changed. >> you're doing what? >> al gore was calling to retract his concession. >> bush says well my brother says his state florida is mine. and gore says well your little brother doesn't get to determine who wins florida and who is the president. and time kind of froze for everybody. it was like, wait, what's this? how could this be possible? suddenly you're on top of the mountain and suddenly you're falling off the cliff. that's what it felt like. >> the contested result comes down to florida where bush's lead is so narrow that under state law a recount is required. lawyers for both teams descend on the state and a len

bush humor. i had just come on board and i got cold down, i need to talk to you, schedule, something like that, so i'm very nervous. i have my notepad. as i sit there, the president had just received an electronic version of a whoopy cushion. here i am and the button gets pushed. my face is completely red. i'm glued to the paper. there must be a grand finale on this thing, because it went off and two secret service agents who were in on the joke came in and that was my introduction to -- [laughter] >> it worked out pretty well. the ranking committee, and the family would talk about it more, if they ever had competitions for horseshoe or other games, people complained, 41 a fast pass through. the ranking, don't worry about that. the ranking committee. he eventually transformed that into judging of jokes. he would get a lot of emails and he would rank them. that was a five, i want to see better next time. i'm not sure i ever got above a six and i thought i had some good ones. he unveiled -- people

bush: now the board of the bush institute. ms. dobriansky: your leadership on the institute, respectively, both of you, was truly exemplary. another area where your leadership was exemplary was in regards to afghanistan. both of you are very invested in afghanistan and ensuring that al qaeda's safe haven was not only obliterated, but you worked to ensure that it would not come back. talk about some of the profound decisions you had to make. pres. bush: first decision was after 9/11 i recognized this was a different kind of conflict as opposed to previous ideological conflicts where there was a capital and a standing army and air force and spies. we were dealing with an enemy that could only thrive if they found the soft underbelly of failed states. doctrine, part of the had to be if you harbor terrorists you are equally as guilty as the terrorists. and in this case the taliban was harboring al qaeda. we give them a chance to turn them in but they would not do it. so when the president says something, he has to mean it. and i meant

bush step up and support you? >> well we were close, he and barbara were the last people to see mary stewart before others and her family before she left in a coma and died. they came to see the day for they wanted to that final coma. he was very supportive of me and it was after her death that he came to me and said you know you have to take your mind off your grief, how about helping me run for the senate? i said well george that's a great idea except for two things, number one i don't know anything about politics i was a lawyer trying to make it into a competitive atmosphere i did not know much about politics and i said number two i'm a democrat. you need to understand all you young people out there need to understand in those days everybody in texas was a democrat, the dividing line was whether you are a conservative democrat or a liberal democrat i was a conservative democrat ultimately we were conservative democrats that's became republicans but after i said that he said you know we can take care of that las

the elevation from vice president bush to president bush was a little bit rocky. in his first year especially early on in his first year he suffered in comparison with reagan. particularly when it came to his instincts around public communication and his handling of the press. take for example this moment just a few months after poppy bush became president. this was may 1989. in may 1989 president george h.w. bush decided to make a very controversial, very provocative, very bold public statement on foreign policy. but he did it in the most awkward inexplicable way possible, which is exactly how the press reported it. >> his aides said the situation in panama was relatively quiet today and required no comment from the president. but mr. bush had a nagging feeling that he had not made his views on panama clear, that the panamanian people did not realize how much he hopes they will rise up against the general. so on air force one bush spoke out. >> they should do everything they can to have the will of the people respected. they ought to heed the international calls.

president bush is wonderful man, a great leader and an enormous archive attached to the new bush center in dallas. i like the history and wanted to learn a bit about come at a presidential sin and to work on economics. i am in a program called the 4% growth program which is put economic growth. coolidge had it but what's that mr., what was it? let's think about it, and the 4% growth project looks at different ways you can get stronger growth. we'll know that stronger growth makes everything easier, including the entitlement problem. c-span: still teach at newark university? >> guest: yes. i teach "the forgotten man" in the 1930s which is her controversial so that's fun. is it right, is a wrong? c-span: if we followed you around the last two years studying calvin coolidge, where would we find you? >> guest: that's important sekar, trustee of the calvin coolidge memorial foundation which is a great entity, and if you want to know coolidge, you go to plymouth notch where he's from, vermont. it's a beautiful village, well preserved. the foundation is there. the state is there. the state arc

bush. next is ohio, toppers and is rand paul, interestingly. >> martha: 75 days later, june s down the escalator at trump tower and changes pretty much everything. joining me now, antonio ferrier, former staff director for republican communication and now at public affairs. ed rendell, or a dnc chairman, welcome to both of you. great to have you both with us tonight. edna, looking to the future, you think of where we were then, ths is going to be thrown up like a chess board into the air before this is through. >> sure, polls at this stage of a presidential race, it is all about name recognition. joe biden and bernie sanders are the two best known democrats, so they are ahead in the polls. >> martha: but do you think biden survives? a year from now? still talking about joe biden in first place? >> because of the current allegations? >> martha: because of anything, just because. >> martha, every 100 democrats, there is maybe 1 who takes this thing, these charges as a disqualification. laura

bush and jeb bush, the one he ran against in 2016. joining me now is the author, susan page, washington bureau chief of "usa today," frequent guest on "hardball" and most importantly, author of "the matriarch: barbara bush and the making of an american dynasty." thank you so much. susan, you're a great person to have you on our show. i want to congratulate you on this book. i think the most interesting thing right now is how the life of barbara bush relates to right now, today, in terms of the republican party and to president trump. she really couldn't stand trump. tell us about it. >> well, right. and it's true, president trump is right that she resented the attacks he made on jeb bush during the 2016 republican primaries and also the fact that, of course, he defeated jeb bush in the race for the republican nomination, but her antipathy for donald trump went back decades. i read in her diaries in 1990 that she wrote that donald trump was a symbol of the greed of the 1980s, and that antipathy just grew when he got involved in politic

the mulberry bush? yeah. maureen mitchell was so badly injured in the mulberry bush pub, she was given the last rites. it's emotional for me because you have been through it, literally, and my heart goes out to you. and mine does to you. it's different for me, i mean, i'm here to tell the tale, and obviously maxine‘s not. yeah, but you have real—life memories of horror. real horror and terror. yeah. if i can supportjulie in any way, i will. and we will stay in touch now, i'm sure we will, you know. with the campaign gathering momentum, west midlands police agreed to re—examine all the evidence it held relating to the bombings? analyzing 9,000 items. we'll go where the evidence goes, in time, and we'll go with re—investigating, if that's the right thing to do. if there is no hope, then clearly we'll need to make that decision and we'll need to explain it. # i was dancing when i was 12...# the only time i will feel that i've achieved anything for maxine is when i get the truth of who murdered her and wh

speaking at the bush institute leadership forum in dallas, this is 15 minutes. >> it is my pleasure to introduce dennis muilenburg from boeing, who is going to kick off our afternoon session, and he is going to kick it off with the beginning of the military citation. boeing has been part of our institute on leadership, and particularly the work for the military service initiative. they were an early champion and what we call our leadership veteran program that we started last year to work with leaders across our country who are serving veterans, and you're going to hear from one of our alums, so we are glad that dennis is able to be here. he is president and chairman of the boeing company. he is obviously very busy with a lot on his plate with a lot going on, so please join me in welcoming dennis muilenburg to the stage. mr. muilenburg: well, thank you, and good afternoon. thank you, mr. president and mrs. bush, for having me to address this as we all have as global citizens to make change in the world. my privilege to be with you today. it is an honor to be here and congratulate someb

the mulberry bush? yeah. maureen mitchell was so badly injured in the mulberry bush pub, she was given the last rites. it's emotional for me because you have been through it, literally, and my heart goes out to you. and mine does to you. it's different for me, i mean, i'm here to tell the tale, and obviously maxine's not. yeah, but you have real—life memories of horror. real horror and terror. yeah. if i can supportjulie in any way, i will. and we will stay in touch now, i'm sure we will, you know. with the campaign gathering momentum, west midlands police agreed to re—examine all the evidence it held relating to the bombings ? analyzing 9,000 items. we'll go where the evidence goes, in time, and we'll go with re—investigating, if that's the right thing to do. if there is no hope, then clearly we'll need to make that decision and we'll need to explain it. # i was dancing when i was 12...# the only time i will feel that i've achieved anything for maxine is when i get the truth of who murdered her and why

bush, is his great big spirit. so if i came up to the president and i don't report to him, it's a real foundation doing work in many areas including, for example, touring cervical cancer in africa. and said president bush you were wrong about medicare part d. he would say well maybe i was. or he would say i wasn't wrong, but he has no trouble creating an intellectual home for people with different ideas who might say something that might not be totally where he was. or familiarity him. in that he is very much like coolidge. he is not a vein man or a narcissist, he wants to serve, and there's a connection there with both bushes, and coolidge,ilities their sense of service, their sense of pride, their piety, they know it's an office that we're serving in. i see in president bush very little vanity about with the foundation. after coolidge, it wasn't about him. once you've been the most important person in the world, you have to say we all know that person, once you've been on television all your life very people are

lied bush couldn't have lied about the intelligence because kerry and rockefeller and feinstein and all the democrats sat on the intelligence committees they had their intelligence then julian in in the work that we do the work that wiki leaks does we are. pushing forward to the boundaries of a certain type of liberty that is we say protected by the first amendment that is the liberty to reveal the truth about the world to protect the story to record from interference and so on. i saw this incredible poster that the u.s. army produced which is a poster of jefferson. with a big statue of jefferson saying the cost of liberty is a turn obedience that is the price of liberty and it had. giant interception systems people with guns and cars god and people looking out over the sea with with spike losses they had interpreted jefferson's statement which was that to stop a strong state we must be eternally vigilant into we must have a strong state an aggressive state a surveillance state in order. i think it's regrettable that the state is so big that then our defense has to be so big and i c

i asked actually to the bushes separately that question, and barbara bush said immediately, absolutely, he was destined to be, do all the things that he did and i asked george, and he thought about it a minute and said yes, i think i would have become president. >> surprising. >> i think they are both wrong about that, because i think this was a partnership, the likes of which we rarely see in life. >> let's go through, there's so many interesting details. you open up in one of the opening chapters about the death of barbara's first daughter, robin, who died of leukemia at the age of 3 years old. why did you start the book with that story? >> i didn't originally. in the first draft of this book, i had it chronologically in the first chapter on the 1988 election that put george h.w. bush in the white house, and i realized it was so long, that that was not the defining event of her life, that the defining event of her life or one of the most defining events was the death of robin, and it shaped so many of her views going forward, for one thing her own relationship. she was the strong one

the mulberry bush? yeah. maureen mitchell was so badly injured in the mulberry bush pub, she was given the last rites. it's emotional for me because you have been through it, literally, and my heart goes out to you. and mine does to you. it's different for me, i mean, i'm here to tell the tale, and obviously maxine's not. yeah, but you have real—life memories of horror. real horror and terror. yeah. if i can supportjulie in any way, i will. and we will stay in touch now, i'm sure we will, you know. with the campaign gathering momentum, west midlands police agreed to re—examine all the evidence it held relating to the bombings, analyzing 9,000 items. we'll go where the evidence goes, in time, and we'll go with re—investigating, if that's the right thing to do. if there is no hope, then clearly we'll need to make that decision and we'll need to explain it. # i was dancing when i was 12...# the only time i will feel that i've achieved anything for maxine is when i get the truth of who murdered her and why.

criminals like bush. he needs to be impeached. >> impeachment talk got louder. >> will the house come to order? >> and democratic congressman dennis kucinich introduced dozens of articles of impeachment. but the leader of the democrats, nancy pelosi, wanted none of it. >> impeachment is off the table. >> disagreements over policy were not intended by the founders to be the bases for a serious attempt at impeachment. >> it's not a crime or a misdemeanor under the constitution to make a mistake. >> after bush's mistake the country was totally polarized in its view of the president and the partisan gap was the widest ever recorded. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and the vice president -- >> impeachment fever would only get worse under the next president. >> change has come to america. >> in 2008 barack obama was elected on a promise, to help heal the country's extreme partisan divide. but the candidate who had campaigned on yes, we can ran into a wall of republican opposition. >>

bush, of course, left office in 2008, but he was not the last bush to run for president. his brother, jeb, ran in 2016 against donald trump, as we mentioned. what was behind his decision to run. do you know? >> you know, i think he felt pressured to run in 2016. he was an obvious candidate. he had two solid terms as a conservative governor in his home state of florida. he had the bush brand name behind him. it had been lucky twice before. and while the american people are very wary of dynasties, political dynasties, i think there was some hope that jeb would throw his hat in the ring. but 2016 turned out to be a very, very different election cycle. had it been 2008, 2012, jeb bush may have been the candidate, but the times were simply not with him in 2016. >> mark, good to see you again. thank you. >> thank you. >>> be sure to tune in. it airs tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. only on cnn. >>> vladimir putin is flexing his muscle in the arctic circle. as a high-tech new military base, which would become russia's closest base to the united states. we will take you inside that militar

bush. mrs. bush looks across the table says how do you think poor john grisham would feel, he is a very handsome man. [laughter] so i am hoping this weekend goes , better. here to talk about history, in virginia it's like talking about oxygen. it's what you breathe. i am a native of chattanooga, tennessee. i grew up on missionary ridge. the battlefield, you know it. about 600 yards from bragg's headquarters. one of the things i love about the mechanics of memory is on missionary ridge, we have an ohio reservation, an illinois reservation, and a sherman reservation. who do you think had the money to put up that monument? i could still find shrapnel in the yards through the 70's. so history for me has always been a tactile thing. it is something that was entirely real. and it is a tried but true illusion that william faulkner was right when he wrote in requiem for a nun, the past is never dead, it is not even past. we see that again here in the life of the nation. i want to talk a little bit about

>> people thought they knew barbara bush. they thought she was approachable, warm, and a oud ofother with the white hair, and she was all those things, but she was more than that, in ways i think most americans didn't realize. she was a hugely influential political advisor to her husband and to her son. she spoke with them behind the scenes on issues like confronting the aids crisis or dealing with the e the cold war. there are ways in which she set a standard for her family, led this remarkable am family that i thought was a story that ought to be told. >> woodruff: you write she raised in a family of privilege, but she had a difficult relationship with her mother that had an effect on her the rst of her life. >> she had a toulationship with her mother. her mother would make fun of her weight and compare her to her older sister martha who was very pretty, on the cover of the college issue of "vogue," and i think this left a wound on barbara bush she had for her whole life. >> woodruff: and that stayed t th her. what abr rela

from the bush institute leadership forum in dallas, this is 15 minutes. ms. kuzmich: it is my pleasure to introduce dennis muilenburg from boeing, who is going to kick off our afternoon session, and he is going to kick it off with the beginning of the military service initiation citation. boeing has been part of our work at the institute on leadership, and particularly the work for the military service initiative. they were an early champion and -- of what we call our leadership veteran program that we started last year to work with leaders across our country who are serving veterans, and you're going to hear from one of our program alums in just a few minutes, so we were really pleased that dennis is able to be here. he is president and chairman of the boeing company. he is obviously very busy with a loss going on and a lot on his plate, so please join me in welcoming dennis muilenburg to the stage. [applause] well, thank you, and good afternoon. and thank you, mr. president and mrs. bush, for having me to address this as we all have as global citizens to ma

>> people thought they knew barbara bush. shey thought she wa approachable, warm, and a grandmother with the cloud of white hair, and she was all those things, but she was more than that, in ways i think most americans didn't realize. she was a hugely influential political advisor to her husband and to her son. ehe spoke with them behind th scenes on issues like confronting the aids crisis or haling with the end ofcold war. there are ways in which she set a standard for her famy, led this remarkable american family that i thought was a story th ought to be told. >> woodruff: you write she was raised in a family of privilege, but she had a difficult relationship with her mother that had an effect on her the rest of her life. >> she had a tough relationship with her mother. her mother would make fun of her reight and comer to her older sister martha who was very pretty, on the cover of the college issue of "vogue," and i think this left a wound on rbara bush she had for her whole life. >> woodruff: and that stayed with her. lwh

to barbara bush, that was unthinkable. barbara bush adored her husband, children and grandchildren. if you ask her her legacy, she's said that. >> dana: i know a young mother that read this book in preparation nor the interview. she said it was quite moving for her. there's advice in her for how to manage a family and working and being in the spotlight, all of that. >> yeah, she was tough. they called her the enforcer. jeb bush called her the traffic cop. she was the one in charge. she set high standards and expected people to reach them. sometimes in ways that they felt critical and to recover from. you can tell from the quality of her children and grandchildren that she leaves a tradition of public service to others. >> dana: i saw one last night, little barbara bush. thank you, susan. >> thank you. >> dana: a long-time elementary school janitor in georgia showing up to work on his 80th birthday. instead of finding trash cans to empty, he found nearly 800 students singing him happy birthday. the students also gave him hand-made cards. so many in fact that they filled several bucke

president bush, how you see america's role? >> personal, kate is old enough to have been at this beach. [laughter] and i'm proud to be on the sta stage. judge the predator by the company he keeps. i had a fabulous cabinet and dates was out integral part of the team. how do thank you for that. we stand for human decency, human rights, the real law, free press, freak religion, it's ingrained in our soul. and i think it's in our interest that others practice open civil society for the sake of peace. one of the lessons of 9/11, how others live matters to our national security. a message that seems to be kidding lost on the american people as that moment receives and our collective memory. i believe it's in our national interest and self interest that others live in free societies and therefore america's role in the world has got to be to hear the voices of those who are imprisoned, to hear those who scream for freedom and who want there to be a vibrant press and if we are not willing to listen and engage, it's unlikely others will

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is the bush dynasty from your perspective -- you have written a whole book about barbara bush. is it going to continue with the new generation. >> one thing i concluded by the time i finished this book was that for the bush family you shouldn't define dynasty as elective office. george w. bush her grandson has been elected and re-elected to state office. but she thought of dynasty as more public service written in a broader way. for instance her name sake, barbara bush her granddaughter, cofounded the global health core. another granddaughter launched a feeding program. one of her grandsons left a corporate job to run a boys club, girls club. another grandson -- dsh not publicized at the time enlisted in the marines and served in afghanistan. she didn't like the word dynasty but if you define it she thought this was okay. >> how do you think she would feel about the trumps dynasty. >> she was skeptical that americans wanted dynasty processes thap that's one of the reasons the she and the president didn't like the word it sounds like entitlement. remember in 2013 when jeb bush w

like bush of course or they are they presented us or for you guys like selenski and. and i think this is a major issue for you can so and so governance a lot of political promises doing made you know action campaigns actually never implemented and this happened this push on to himself and this might happen this is the lens yes well so you can but this might be actually a disappointment disappoint them if it's let's get with ministry become president for a few. now compared to the russians ukrainians have a fairly short political fuse i mean both unocal bache and president before him were sort of kicked out of office four or five years after people voted for them whoever secures the april twenty first vote how long do you think he will have until the people will get impatient i think this is will be very soon as this happens you should go soon after the other civilizations this also happened this bush uncle quite soon after he was elected to the first in just thousand and fourteen after my down. government after my down led government obviously and you can so this was

bush administration. take miguel estrada, a bush nominee with no judicial experience, who held membership in the federalist society but had no writings and claimed that he had never even thought about roe v. wade, or william pryor, another bush nominee who called roe, quote, the worst abomination in the history of constitution law and argued that states should have the are right to criminalize homosexual. or take charles pickering, who advocate add reduced sentence for a man convicted of burning a cross in the front yard of an interracial couple. before the republicans launched their campaign to remake the courts, neither party would have dared put forward such radical nominees. starting with his campaign, and into his presidency, president trump has been captive, totally captive, to the conservative campaign to take over the courts. before he was a presidential candidate, mr. trump had been a democrat and a person with no fixed judicial philosophy, so conservatives didn't trust him. he and his advisors c

and you not shala debates in the against bush ok here could be a likely lose or make a major kind of a mistakes made significant impact his approach this is to pasture they didn't excel in the debates so i think for this it isn't zelinsky did not appear for. presidential debates in the first stone and he basically also the same for the second town because he is not a very. common for confident in his ability to challenge against bush uncle in the television debates result actually population and bizarre. kind of ability to control the message and the script that message is this is one of the problems for the future. professor mentioned before is keyes lack of political experience is that really sad share competitive advantage in the ukrainian context i mean experience he is rivals have lots of it but isn't that also a major turn off for the voters i think this is his big advantage because in the third. presidential candidates like bush i'm going to mushroom call zelinsky is a new politician he is a new personality in the u.k. you know politics and a lot of you can you know. this isn'

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