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but by his actions. >> he's modest. there is a difference. >> he's not perfect. no one is, but amazingly, he's as close as you can get. >> he's the only dad that could catch a baseball ten straight times behind his back. he was just a cool dad. the family of the 41s president of the united states shares intimate stories only they can tell. welcome to "a bush family album" i'm brett hume. while he'll be criticized, the family of the 41s president of the united states remembers him for most as a loving family man, a man with a servant's heart. a peak into the bush family archives as we get access to their photo albums. they provide a sense of what it was like growing up in this family and you'll hear from bush
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41 himself. he sat in with an interview with his wife and couldn't resist adding comments. behind me, walker's point where the bush family has gathered for generations and now "a bush family album". >> when i grew up, my mother used to show me a scrapbook of my dad at yale and pictures of my dad when he was at war. i will never forget in the scrapbook there was a piece of the raft that had rescued him and the picture of my dad being pulled out of the sea by the uss, and was made more real when i thought about that raft, the piece of the raft. >> he's a war hero to many americans and to his own children. they, the bush kids, described growing up as the first 41 sons and daughters. many photos until now private
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album were taken at their home on the coast of maine. >> an anchor to the wind ward. what he means by that, a place where our family gathers. >> walker's point is the summer home where 100 years of bush family history has occurred. >> a lot of memories in this place, happy memories, all of them happy. >> my great grandfather purchased that in the early 1900s. mother and dad love it there. he loves going there. he loves to fish. he loves the waves crashing across the rocks. he found solis and comfort there and it's a place his sons and daughters come to be with him. >> the only summer he wasn't there is when he was in the military. the ocean is powerful and soothing for my dad. >> my parents moved over 50 times or something like that, maybe over 50 times, so we've had a moving life but that's the
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one constant. we love it. we know our second cousins once removed. >> it's a big sprawling piece of land. it carries a huge amount of family history in it but it is neither too over done in any way. they are not trying to impress anybody. it says a lot about him and barbara bush. it's a place for family and friends to be together, and that's the attraction of it and that's what you feel when you're there. >> you can see by his body action, his words, how important it is to him and us and important to the entire network of bush family now because of the importance in him. the joys he gets of watching his grandchildren blossom into adults and to see the success of his family, i think, far exceeds any success he had in his life, which in my mind far chads anything that anybody else in our family has ever done.
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>> my husband is great. been married 65 years, and there is no dark side, truthfully. sometimes he makes me sort of mad, but i've never been ashamed or embarrassed about him, and i've always been proud of him. >> george herbert walker bush met barbara pierce at a high school dance in 1941, just a few weeks after the december 7th attack on pearl harbor. >> and george asked someone there do you know the girl in the red and green dress. >> beautiful girl. >> and then you can bring her over and introduce me to her, which he didn't do. they played a waltz and he didn't waltz and he said do you mind if we sit down. i went to the andover dance with him. first person that kissed me,
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kissed me in front of 15 people that didn't seem to notice but i almost fainted from excitement. 16 and 17, 18 -- you were 17 then. >> 17, you were 16. >> 18 the next day he was. that's like a song. ♪ you were 16, i was 17 >> i don't think they are interested. >> two teenagers in love with wars in europe and the pacific, the future did not look bright. bush joined his fellow americans and enlisted as soon as he turned 18. he earned his wings and became the youngest pilot in the navy at the time. >> his mother and father were wonderful and i had a brother who was overseas. i had a brother-in-law that was overseas. but it was different. different times. >> lieutenant junior greg bush flew a bomber off carriers. the targets of his 58 bombing missions were japanese
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instillations on small islands in the pacific. bush's wartime diary has descriptions of close calls and the bombing run hit by japanese. bush completed the mission and headed to sea. he was able to bailout when his crew, the radio man did not survive. >> when he was shot down, i got a notice that seen him rowing away and a submarine picked him up and his mom called me about a day later saying he's fine. he's in hawaii. he could have come home then, but he chose to stay. he's a hugely patriotic american. >> bush arrived home on christmas eve 1944, two weeks later friends and family attended george and barbara's wedding. >> it was a very sort of funny day. we had a luncheon and my honest husband stood up and just wowed them all because he said
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something nice about, and you know, barbara means beautiful and blah, blah, blah and on and on and when you look it up, barbara means strange. he lied. beautiful, the wedding. >> not long after their wedding day, the new bride's father wrote a letter predicting the young couple's future. >> george was at yale and he said i think he's a big man on campus but he said some day he could be president of the united states. he really thought george was wonderful. we didn't expect that then. we did not think he would be president then, but he worked hard all his life and did everything the best he could, i believe, best son, best father, best student, always. best athlete, get the pictures for you in a minute. >> barbara bush credits the family history for success. >> dorothy walker bush -- first
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of all, she was the most extraordinary woman truthfully. great golfer, tennis player, very nice. put on less errors than i knew. she taught him all the things you learn in kindergarten, be honest, don't push, talk about the other fellow, don't talk about yourself and then she made george a fault she shouldn't have. she said i think george bush is the greatest president i knew and he never took credit, that's one fault. >> george h.w. bush's personal modesty has not kept him telling how he influenced them, america and indeed the world. more of a bush family album in a moment. t!
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that my dad moved from new england to texas. >> the eddest of their five children. >> he could have stayed up east, gone into wall street, settled into a very comfortable life but instead, he packed up mother and me and moved out to odessa, texas and i always have admired him for his pioneering spirit. >> moving to odessa, texas, well, i never been here before. i knew it was dusty and -- but people were wonderful. >> george bush went to texas to build a career on his own instead of following in his father's footsteps. >> he told me he really didn't want to work with something you couldn't touch like banking or something that his family had done and maybe others, too, and he was offered jobs by a lot of groups. who was it that turned you down? proctor and gamble. >> they make a fine soap. >> they do make a fine soap but george applied, didn't even
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apply, they just turned you down. he wanted to go to corpus christi being trained and i think he really loved that feeling of doing something different. >> when i think back to midland, texas, i think of baseball. my dad was a very good baseball player. he was the captain of a successful yale baseball team. they went to the ncaa championship twice. sadly lost both times, and he was a good first baseman and i used to love to play catch with him, and i remember the first time he said, son, i can throw it as hard as i want. which meant a lot to me because it meant i had come of age in terms of being able to catch a baseball. >> the bush family began to grow. first with a daughter robin and another son jeb. bush learned the oil business and founded a petroleum corporation with a group of investors in 1953. it became an offshore drilling
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operation with rigs around the world. >> we had very difficult times when the rig went down and that was what, third of your company's holdings and that's tough, but you have to have someone who knows what it means to have 60 people or whatever number they have depending on your livelihood. i think that's important. >> the difficult times the bushes faced in the oil business were nothing compared to a parent's worst nightmare when three-year-old robin was diagnosed with leukemia and died a year later. the lessons george bush learned in building a business create yiting jobs and meeting a payroll became key to his next career. >> when he came and told me he was going to run for county chairman, he didn't quite tell me there were 300 and some precincts or 200 and some precincts and he was campaigning. i thought they would fall down and say yes, perfect, all our friends thought it was nutty but george rolled up his sleeves and you loved it. >> politics became the family
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business. and with the same eagerness and drive to build the company, george hw bush worked his way to the top. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> dad had handled his relationship with president regan extremely well. he remained loyal to the man that picked him to be vice president up to the minute. when the curtain rose, he gave one of the great convention speeches ever and that then helped defined who he was. >> i will keep america moving forward, always tore ward for a better america, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand points of light. this is my mission and i will complete it.
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>> my dad is informal. i loved the picture of ranger relaxed. the picture to me speaks able the importance of the job. the amount of work a president has to do in order to do the job that people expect. having ranger around added some comfort to him. >> george hw bush's presidency faced challenges and opportunities on the international and domestic fronts. liberationit and putting down hussain gave bush one of the highest approval ratings ever for any president. but his numbers fell sharply during the 1992 presidential campaign. >> i think it was the worst year of my life watching george bush get defeated for president. >> i just called governor clinton in little rock and offered my congratulations. he did run a strong campaign. >> what is interesting about the moment, mother's attitude is it's over, get on with your
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life. that's exactly what we did. with his help and his encoura encourageme encouragement. >> george called everyone to come into the east room, staff. it was very, very crowded and the wonderful marine announces ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and in walks and he was funny. >> i was staying in the lincoln bedroom and i couldn't resist getting her on the phone and called up the secret service feel like going jogging tonight? in the nude. [ laughter ] >> wouldn't be prudent, not going to do it. >> a silly gesture, which i don't use. >> oh, yeah. >> not going to do it. wouldn't be prudent. that kind of thing. >> and george, you were very good. he insisted everybody in the white housework to the last moment and that they help the clinton people as best they could and i think they did and,
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you know, his hmother, precious hotter died the day it clintons came. >> the loss of the presidency for george bush held a twist of fate. >> i thought about it a lot and it just broke my heart but he said i realize with the press against you, and you don't have the house or the senate, george never had that, that you would have had the worst four years of your life, and not me, just the family, and that took a little while for me to buy that, but i think that's true. >> maybe george wouldn't have been elected president. >> he wouldn't have. or elected governor. so that's okay. >> it would have been difficult for me to run in 1994 and difficult for jeb to run in 1994 so his pain, the pain of loss made it possible for us to run for public service, which i found to be one of the great ironies of my life. >> for only the second time in
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american hisry, a father and son each served as president. john adams was the second president and john quincy adams number six. george bush 43 remembers his first day in office and the surprise visit from 41. >> i was sitting at the desk just reflecting and kind of absorbing the environment and in walks my dad and from my perspecti perspective, it was an unbelievably touching moment. >> president george w. bush and president george hw bush may share a deal but he didn't have a vision or plan. >> he didn't have a vision about what i should do in life. he didn't say look, you need to go out and practice fielding for ten hours a day because i want you to be a great shortstop. his attitude is i'll provide some examples for you of how to live your life. i will set certain values, and go get it. i wish you all the very best.
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obviously, if we needed help or advice, he was there but he never really tried to steer the course of our life, for which i'm eternally grateful. >> and there is at least one thing that sets the two presidents apart. >> i think it's fabulous, but not to the point where i want to emulate him. >> that was fun. >> yeah. >> great. >> when he was a kid and had to jump out after getting shot down, he hit his head and couldn't remember the moment so he wanted to relive what it is like to jump out of an airplane. since then, he's serving as an example to older citizens that, you know, you can live life to the fullest and i think it's really cool. >> throughout his life, president george hw bush set examples for others to follow, including me. i followed bush 41 out the side of an airplane at the celebration of his 80th birthday. it was very cool, indeed very cold at 13,000 feet.
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etern . >> our dad is probably the sweetest person you would ever meet. he is very thoughtful and kind and good and ol old fashioned that way, a very ability, for example when we call him on the phone, he is so enthusiasm i can, is that you? he's just pretty special. >> he was the only dad that could catch a baseball, you know, ten straight times behind his back. he's a cool dad and a good wine. he's aged, gotten better with age. he's, he is a cool guy.
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>> they all right youngest of the family. >> when you're ten years old and you see your father on a billboard, it's a novel. for us, it was novel and neat. our dad lost his first election. big deal. everybody expected him to lose. he ran for congress and one of only 24 congressmen at that point in texas who was a republican, the only republican. that was a big deal. as your profile rises in politics, there is more scrutiny for those of us who obviously care about my dad, it gets tougher and tougher. >> with his family's support and despite many political batters, bush never shied away from seeking public office. >> we lived in washington a lot. he was a congressman, head of the cia, head of the republican party. he was a lot of things. he's a man that can't say no. >> after the thankless job of heading the committee during
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watergate and the nixon resignation, gerald ford offered a choice of posts. >> when he told us guess where we're going? i mean, they guessed 400 countries before they got to china. i think the best thing that happened to us. [speaking foreign language]. >> i was thinking about the weather. i learned the state department and i would talk to myself and when we got over there, not one thing that i had learned was appropriate. [speaking foreign language]. >> how much does it cost? every american knew that. i loved it. the food was divine. >> we did take a really fun trip to china. we were there for over a month or a couple months and traveled. my mom became an expert on a lot of tourist sights in china and
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especially the forbidden city. exciting time. >> there were challenging times ahead for the bush children. >> our dad became president. it was a huge thrill. it wasn't surprise, really. i mean, it's not as if he wasn't qualified to be president. i don't know. it kind of fit with who he was, but for us, our dad was just a saint. >> i'll say it wasn't all that much fun all the time because the intensity is just ratcheted up. all of us are just so protective of our dad. there is perception and reality. there is a news week article when he was running for president, it said the wimp factor. i thought that's kind of odd. here is a guy who served his country as a young pilot, probably an expectation this ivy league guy would go to wall street and he went to west texas. a family guy, which is rare in washington and literally watched his daughter die, which takes a lot of courage to keep a family together after that. here is a guy who just by virtue
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of the way he lives his life, you have perception and reality and there are a couple ways to handle it. you can retreat or you can do what we did, which was spend more time with him. >> my dad is famous for letter wrie writing, so that gives you a glimpse of who he is. >> he has a continual stream of personal letters and notes. they were edited and collected into a book by his long-time assistant jean becker. bush described the book as quote letters written when my heart was heavy or full of joy. serious letters, nutty letters. rejoicing letters. >> so he just had no interest in looking back at his life. he sits in his office and thinks of ideas of fun plans and things to do in the future and who can he call. >> his daughter was the author
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of "my father, my president" the memoir her father was too modest to write. in 2006, the uss george hw bush was christened. it seems fitting in a way to honor a life of service. dora was designated as the sponsor and got to open the champagne bottle. >> she's unbelievable. she put a library in. she put in tapes for the moms and dads to read a child's book and then send the tape home to hear the voice. that's nice. she's been a great sponsor. >> on june 10th, 2012, the bush family welcomed the ship to the main coast. they spent time with the crew and took part in a reenlistment ceremony for 60 sailors. >> they send me a picture of the new carrier, 77 listing.
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beautiful, beautiful sea. that's one part of the navy, i love being at sea. it's heaven. >> are you ready? >> yes, sir. >> hold on. >> for a guy who is sort of living life straight down the middle. he's very aggressive in his boat. i'm not going to say reckless because he's not because he's good at driving the boat but for an 85-year-old dude to go 50 miles per hour over three to four feet waves is pretty aggressive. >> whenever he has a chance, george bush shared his love of the ocean, fishing and fast boats with friends and visitors. >> dad was anxious to give president putin a good time, a ride in his home. v vladimir is an outdoor man, adventurer. so we get into his boat and of course, after a slow start he
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cranks that baby up and it was interesting to watch. vladimir's reaction to the former president blasting across the atlantic, fortunately, diplomatic relations weren't severed at that minute. >> when you spend time with folks that know and love my father, he's got literally 200 people who think that they are among his five best friends. we always joke about having the fifth beetle, meaning four boys and another dude out there somewhere. >> we call those fifth beetles brothers from another mother. laugh will have. >> there are tons of them. coming up, a political rival but also a great admirerer of president george hw bush. >> they refer to me as the black sheep son. the one that strayed from the fold. >> we'll be right back. the numb. over 400,000 new private sector jobs...
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president obama saying he will not order troops back into combat in iraq. he says there are several options to counter the i can insurgency but stressing the leadership needs to deal with its own political problems. iraqi troops abandoning positions as insurgent set sights on baghdad taking over two towns north of the capitol. in the meantime, military officials saying they will not
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rush bowe bergdahl's recovery. they are working with the former pow to live a normal life. he arrived back in the u.s. a day ago. he's been treated at a texas military hospital. five years in taliban captivity reportedly affecting his english but we're told he's walking on his own and even soluted a commander on his own. for the latest headlines, log on to foxnews.com. more, log onto foxnews.com. welcome back welcome back to "a bush family album." coming up, jeb bush, neil bush and the self-described bash sheep of the family, bill clinton tell us what they thought of president george hw bush and why. >> my dad is the most complete man i know. >> john ellis, jeb, bush. >> hard to describe as a son but he's courageous, honest, had
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integrity, all the traits you would describe of someone nearing perfection, he has. he's not perfect, no one is but amazingly, he's as close as you can get. >> but the trait jeb, the second son, admired most in his father is what he sees in courage. >> my dad i think exhibited that in his entire life starting as the youngest navy pilot in world war ii moving to midland in his business. that took courage to get out of one's comfort zone to take the risk of running for office in the minority parties in the republican party in texas and then certainly as president, he showed a toughness and fortitude that people didn't think he had. he wasn't a politician. when we were growing up, he got involved in politics when he was 40. he was a business guy. he traveled a lot. he wasn't always at home because he was working hard, but when he was with us, it was always fun. we always did things. we were going to a baseball game or going to play tennis or just
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outdoors playing catch. fantastic father. he wasn't a strict discipline narcoticen but when he messed up, his words of saying i'm disappointed in you was devastating. it was like a thousand lashes and one month stuck in your room. so his means of child rearing were basically to set an example. >> being an example and setting standards for his children was george bush's role. barbara bush dealt with the day to day business of running the family. >> i'm considered the meanest person in the world. >> the meanest? >> well, toughest. every one of the boys who gives a speech can't wait to needle their mother like george w in florida called me once and jeb was in the car, governor and president and he says mom, don't watch the news tonight. and i hear this roaring with
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laughter. and so of course, i say what's the matter with jeb? he finally gets it out. today a young girl asked the president is it important to eat as a family and he said yes, and she said did you eat as a family, and he said -- >> i did eat with my family, so long as my mother wasn't cooking. [ laughter ] >> just kidding, mom. >> that's just an average bush joke, right? right. >> in the 8 '8 campaign i worked full-time time. it was gratifying to see the victory when people forget this but he was down like 15 points in the polls with two months to go. it shows the extraordina ordina narcotic ten -- determination of my dad. the four years were packed with incredible events that could have gone a completely different direction. he has courage to act on his
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convictions. >> the world has said this aggression would not stand and it will not stand. >> there is a top inner strength that came out when he was president when the world was focused on operation desert storm. the public impression is that my dad is this nice guy and nice guys can't be tough. that's probably the biggest fallacy, you can be tough and be kind. in fact, being tough in a bravado sense isn't toughness. you don't want a president focused on themselves but you want them to act on principle and he did. >> as president, i can report to the nation aggression is defeated, the war is over. [ applause ] >> it's something that he'll get sick when her hears it. the fact that my dad has
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[ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] he makes trains that are friends with trees. [ train whistle blows ] my dad works at ge. ♪ . oh, boy, what do i know that the rest of the world doesn't know? i mean, that is a tough question. i mean, everybody knows he hates test >> test >> test >> test broccoli. so that doesn't count. >> neil bush, the third born >> neil bush, the third born ht bush boy. >> it's hard to talk about my father without talking about his commitment to service. he has an enduring belief in this human quality of giving too others and models that for hers. people in his own life. he's the most unselfish human
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being i think you'll probably ever meet. unselfi it's amazing how he lifts people, not only by his examplei but by his actions. he's a very remarkable man. basically, all my teenage life he's been in political service. it was very normal. everyone thinks he would ride around in limos or fly in r private airplanes or eat at the best restaurant.best we have a normal life. dad was out there cooking hamburgers when we were young kids. he's aly pretty average kind of family but with exceptional prt parenting. i thought thought so highly of my dad it didn't surprise me when he became president. o i worked hard to help him get to become president, we all did. >> many enjoy perks that go along with living in the white house, that was not an option for the bush children. >> my mom in barbara bush fashion and dad supported her, if he were ever elected
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president the kids couldn't move into the white house. we are adults and have our liven so they stuck to that. ♪ hen >> i think when historians do look back at my father's presidency, they will look back, tearing down of the berlin wall, dealt with the crisis in china d with an amazing diplomatic savvy, obviously when saddam hussein attacked kuwait my father rallied the forces of good and put together an amazing coalition and dealt with that aggression in just exactly the i right thway. gave sudan hussain every chancee in the world to right his wrong and when he stopped at the boarder, it was the right thing to do. he on the domestic side, there wasc issues related to the economy and taxation and he worked a o
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compromise with congress that turned out to be his down fall because he made a very famous statement. >> read my lips -- >> he did what was right at the time and economists reflecting on his actions support what he n did to keep the economy going. he signed into law the legislation for disabilities act and the first volunteer services act for the united states. he had legacy actions domestic and foreign that will put him ai the very high ranks and a little bias but highest ranks of our president. one of thehe most important legacies from my perspective is his commitment to volunteer and to encourage others to try to pitch in and do what they can to make the world a better place. >> on july 16th, 2013, president
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george bush was invited to the white house for a presentation. for the 5,000th type the points of light institute presented s their daily award to honor a volunteer organization. president obama took this opportunity to thank the institute's founder. >> we are surely a kinder and dr gentler nation because of you nn and we can't thank you enough. [ applause ] >> just like a rock, a steady stability and kindness and waivers one eye from that. om coming up, the bush another bill clinton. his replace your laptop?
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i always liked him. you know, i liked him because after he had a very tough fight with president reagan, when he finished second and he was asked to be vice president and he did. >> though they were once strong political opponents, it turns out former president bill clinton was always one of george h.w. bush's admirers. 1983. gov association met up in maine. and he hosted them at his house. so we went there and i had my daughter who was then three years old i walked up to the vice president and i said, mr. vice president i'd like you to meet this man the president of the united states and she said where is the
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bathroom? he took her to the bathroom and introduced my daughter to his mother who was then still living. and made a big impression on me. it's the kind of man he s he's kind and treats everybody with respect. he's interested in people. >> the two men did not agree on many issues president clinton was struck by bush's integrity >> i wasn't an idealoge. he voted for open housing bill to integrate housing in america i thought that showed he had character to be open to the facts and i liked him because i thought he was a very good man. i think he will go down in history to one of the positive things he did to improve security of the united states in his term which was in part
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reflection of the failure of communication and a reflection of the success of every american president from hairy -- harry truman. >> we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the white house in 2000 i invited all living presidents and former first ladies there. it was an amazing night of american history but after the 2000 election and before the supreme court awarded election to president bush, his son. so there they were, sitting in the white house, they had to be calm and try to enjoy this and try to realize the weight of the moment. they had no idea whether his son was going to be presid handled it. they were amazing.
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>> former presidents gather for events onare occasions but bush and clinton have been found together time and again. in 2004 on the day after christmas a earthquake shook and a tsunami hit the coast of southeast asia. for 200,000 people were dead or missing, many areas, destroyed the two presidents showed americans that we're sometimes more united than divided. this unlikely team raised over $1 billion in relief funds >> one of the countries hardest hit was maldives. they didn't understand what part of india was hurt. what happened in thailand. we rekindled our bond existing before the election. z.in 92. in a way this wasn't possible in years when i was
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president. and i loved it. we had a great time together z i think we did a lot of good. >> the unusual partnership tapped again the next year after hurricane katrina devastated the gulf coast. >> made people feel good to see a republican and democrat and two people who run against each other working together. it caused people to relax. we still don't agree on everything. they refer to me as their black sheep son, but that is the way america should work. before people get out of politics. you know? i think we just have to keep struggling to find common ground in this country. on his part it was genuine. he cared about the work we did together and enjoyed time we spent together. he believes that people who have had opportunities we've had in life should serve as long as they live. and are able. and i
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want people to know that about him. he is a good man. >> president clinton believes george bush should be remembered and admired for the way he lived his life. >> if every american could have seen him driving that speed boat not only with daring but skill, he became the same man who was the youngest fighter pilot that shot out of the air in world war ii when he was only 18. you just get that almost boyish excitement and fire, you can see that is the secret to every man and woman's life. you know? you have to have something to look forward to. find joy in the moment. he does. the idea he's still jumping out of airplanes every five years to mark his birthday is astonishing. so that is what i'd like for people to remember about him the guy has a lot of juice. he loves life. and he is a
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genuinely good man. >> some people find it astonishing these two political rivals became such good friends i've interviewed them both. i know their relationship to be genuine. as president bush said just because you you disagree on something doesn't mean you can't work together. that is an attitude that once separated much of american politics from the world. it's basic to the character of president george hw bush. now, we close with these final words. >> he was professional and he was a man with a great heart. he caught me values matter, principles matter. >> he's loyal, kind, thoughtful. he's funny. >> for us, it's no other greater gift we can have. >> the final legacy is that he's going to be remembered as the
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