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toure c-span cities continues its clock at prine -- bryan college station with a the final resting place of president bush, his wife barbara and their daughter robin. >> we're about 4/10 of a mile label.e president bush chose this site final resting place. so in april, about a year and a ago now, we buried mrs. bush here and then in after his death in november, and then the funeral inut six days later, december, he was brought up here the up, 4141, in the special car. amazingly, there were -- there lined, all the way from houston. it's probably about 80 or 90 miles from houston here.

and there were people lined up thealong the tracks, all way here. i was in a bus. we kind of followed the path of train. and it was just amazing. you could see the people all tracks,l over the places likeoe, that. ended at thetrain university about a mile from here. ad the casket was put in hearse and brought here. there's a walkway on the other the gravesite. lined the walkway all here.y the funeral service here was just family. service,was a memorial and -- at st. martin's in houston. that was a public ceremony. then the body was brought here.

like i said, people lining the inh all the way, up here and college station, people all along the tracks. got to thehe body library museum, it was just family. a -- likewas mrs. bush's service, it was just a family service. chose early, after the here, they --t the gravesite was pretty early. think the reason was because and theyd being here loved the students. they loved the university. great to be around all these young people. the towns, college station, and the whole community, the area, were so welcoming to the president and mrs. bush, i think they thought this was appropriate for their final

resting place. their daughter was brought here -- she died right before birthday. red probably 15, 16, 17 years ago and brought here. she was the first in the gravesite. in april, mrs. bush was buried here. december,ber, president bush was buried here. the navy cross. lieutenant. when this was first laid out, there were no trees back there. so you could see all the way to the roadway. shortly after the site was picked, the trees were planted. nice, have kind of a secluded place where you can contemplate, i guess, be -- thatwas one of the things th wanted.rs. bush how it compares to the other

well,ential libraries, is buried at his home. eisenhower at his library. presidents,f the burial places are at their presidential libraries. seem to be somewhat simple, though. really arem grandiose. this one's probably the furthest the actual library of any of the gravesites of any of the presidential libraries. a nice little walk. nice -- where you can kind of come backur legs, here and remember both the president and mrs. bush. a part of theuch library, the museum and the community. >> we all know that our grandmother loved taking sawures and, you know, we the scrapbooks she would keep of pictures of all of us. in the more recent years, i realize how much she kept

from her entire life until i was booking research for my and i was able to go down to college station, to my and theyer's library have the archives there. my coauthor and i were like, ok, a day and a half. let's do it. 8 a.m., first day we walk in, finch was like, ok, where do you want to start? she opens the door. it is like millions and millions of different scrap books, books, tapes and things. like, what? oh, my god. we only have a day and a half. anyway, we started in her scrap books. my grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. at the george h.w. bush library and museum, director one offinch showed us barbara bush's many scrapbooks theirning mementos from life together. >> we're here in the research room. we're going to take a look at of about 120, 130 scrapbooks that mrs. bush began keeping shortly after she and president

bush became engaged. was an avid scrapbooker, kind of documented their entire history and his political and their life together for their entire marriage. one is from 1944 and '45, i believe. mrs. bush's granddaughter was presidentok on the and mrs. bush, kind of their love story. books as ang scrap resource for that book. found, of the things she because it was sitting inside this envelope -- we hadn't found was what we think is a scrapbook from their first thanksgiving. mrs. bush gets the wishbone and she has the guests that were and what's kind of funny, she even has the one guest who gotdn't come because he sick. but this is the kind of stuff she kept. pictures of him.

baseball scorecards. and she annotated it all in her own hand writing. love with himh in that she wanted to document their life together. the children, the grandchildren, on.ime went and at some point, she stopped shescrap books but then started to send us -- she had a digital camera. send us digital photos and the backup to the photos, so they weren't exactly in the scrap books but all the -- if she was at a dinner, she'd take dinner, pictures at a then she would send us the invitation, the program, the menu from the dinner. in a scrapbook. at some point, i think someone an archival standpoint, the pictures and the scrapbooks probably wasn't the greatest idea, because once they're glued in, it's hard to out for preservation

purposes. but they're a great resource. like i said, one of the reasons the museum, about 12 years ago, is because we all these great artifacts in these scrap books. we said, we gotta use them. so i told mrs. bush. mrs. bush, thanks for the scrap books. gonna put this stuff in the museum. so as you walk through the aseum, a lot of photos and lot of stories are from her scrap books. she's a big part of the museum also. >> our cities tour staff traveled to bryan and college station, texas, to learn history. rich to watch more video from bryan otherllege station and stops on our tour, visit c-span.org/cities tour. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on espn3. on c-span3.

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event. here's a preview. [applause] >> president clinton, mrs. clinton, governor keating, mrs. keating, mayor, and our governor from the great state of texas, governor and and so many people that have come here from all country to join in this prayer service and for all that said, i don't know what i'm going to say, because we've broughtral messages here. one from the president, which pulpite a sermon from a anywhere, and maybe that's what he'll do someday. [laughter] [applause]

now. or 20 years from [laughter] >> but most important of all, all of those people that have from the fire department, the police those people that were in the building, those loved that have lost ones, those that have been bombing, oure tears mingle with yours, as we through the room a moment ago and shook hands with so many of you and had a little prayer with several of you. and you from the various agencies, like the fire, the medical, the police, the of volunteers who we've already heard about, no matter we try, words simply cannot express the horror and revulsion we the

all feel over what took place in last wednesday. that terrible and senseless grainy runs against the of every standard, every belief, custom we hold as a civilized society in the united states. images of devastation and human suffering we've seen indelibly imprinted on each one of our minds and live. as long as we that blast was like a violent explosion, ripping at the very heart of america, and long after the rubble is cleared and the rebuilding begins, the scars of evil outrages and will remain. notome together here today only to pray and forgive and love but to say to those who this cruel plot, and to those who carried it out, this city andt of this nation will not be

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terrorism events, the oklahoma experience. five leading first responders describe what happened after the bombing, how the response was organized, successes and problems and lessons learned. this program comes to us courtesy of the national emergency training center library iner mittsburg, maryland. burg, maryland. >> with regard to this proceeding, basically there are four elements that i have to receive information regarding -- >> everybody looking down here now. watch the electricity!