♪ we met at a dance. first person that kissed me. i almost fainted from excitement. >> we packed up mother and me and moved out to odessa, texas, and i always have admired him for his pioneering spirit. >> our dad is probably the sweetest person you'd ever meet. he's very thoughtful and kind and good and old fashioned in that way. >> it's amazing how he lifts people not only by his examples 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 41st 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. on this program, a peek 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 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 our 21st -- 41 as

it president growing up as the first 41 sons and daughters. many photos until now private 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 solice 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 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 esceeds anything that anybody else in our family has ever done. >> 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. >> he didn't say that. >> 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, 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. >> we wouldn't hear from you forever, and >> 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 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 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. that was the only lie i have ever known him to make. 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 bush family may tree yak for

much of her husband's success. >> dorothy walker bush -- first of all, she was the most extraordinary woman truthfully. great golfer, tennis player, very nice. put on less airs 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 his family and his life from telling how he influenced them, america and indeed the world. more of a bush family album in a moment. ♪ yeah ♪ don't stop now, come on mony ♪ come on, yeah ♪ i say yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah

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england to texas. >> the eldest of their five children. george w. bush. >> 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 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 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 ing 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 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. which is the convention. 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. >> my dad is informal. he can relax and he sure loved his dog ranger, and i

i loved the picture of ranger relaxed. on the rug in the oval office. the picture to me speaks able about 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. liberation of kuwait 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 life. that's exactly what we did.

with his help and his 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 as the president, 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 house work to the last moment and that they help the clinton people as best they could and i think they did and,

you know, his mother, precious mother 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 american history, 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 perspective, it was an unbelievably touching moment. that he would come and share the early moments of my presidency with me. >> president george w. bush and president george hw bush may share a deal but he didn't have a vision or plan. for his son. >> 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. 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. we'll be right back. feet. we'll be right back. [ mom ] hi, girls! mommy!

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>> they all right youngest of the family. as they were dwroeg up, their father left the oil business and entered politics. >> 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 battles, 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 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 especially the forbidden city. it was a pretty 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. and built a business. 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 of the way he lives his life,

has proven that he's anything but a wimp. 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 writing, so that gives you a glimpse of who he is. >> he has a continual stream of personal letters and notes. in which he expressing gratitude to others. 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. care and 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 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 the world's best sponsor. >> 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 maine 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. 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. vladimir is an outdoor man, adventurer. so we get into his boat and of course, after a slow start he 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. >> 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. you told us your number one olive garden dishes.

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>> live from america's news headquarters, i'm harris faulkner. the situation in iraq seems to be spiraling out of control. fox news is getting reports of another town falling to a brutal group known as isis the wall street journal is reporting that at this hour president obama is preparing directly to talk with iran over what to do in this crisis. some reports are they are within a few miles of capital baghdad. thousands of volunteers in

baghdad said to be answering the call to arms to defend their city, the u.s. state department is tighten security at our embassy there and moving staff to other locations. generations of americans are mourning the loss of casey kasem. he was 82 years old. i'm harris faulkner, now back to a welcome back to "a bush family album." coming up, jeb bush, neil bush and the self-described black 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 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 outdoors playing catch.

fantastic father. he wasn't a strict disciplinarian, but when he messed up, his words of saying i'm disappointed 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 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 also personally for me, 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 extraordinary at the nancity and determination of my dad to inspire everybody to work harder. the four years were packed with incredible events that could have gone a completely different direction. but for my dad's leadership. he has courage to act on his

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 he hears it. more than his accomplishments as

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oh, boy, what do i know that the rest of the world doesn't know? that's a tough question. everybody knows he hates broccoli, so that doesn't count. >> neil bush, the third born bush boy. is today the head of the points of light institute. it was started during his father's presidency to promote volunteerism. >> 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 to others and models that for people in his own life. he's the most unselfish human being i think you'll probably ever meet.

it's amazing how he lifts people, not only by his examples but by his actions. he's a very remarkable man. basically, all my teenage life and on, he's been in political service. it was very normal. everyone thinks he would ride around in limos or fly in private airplanes or eat at the best restaurant. we have a normal life. dad was out there cooking hamburgers when we were young kids. he's a pretty average kind of family but with exceptional parenting. i thought thought so highly of my dad it didn't surprise me when he became president. 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 president the kids couldn't move into the white house. we are adults and have our lives

so they stuck to that. ♪ >> i think when historians do look back at my father's presidency, they will look back, and see a remarkable pattern of success in everything he did, on the domestic side and the foreign policy side, tearing down of the berlin wall, dealt with the crisis in china with an amazing diplomatic savvy, obviously when saddam father rallied the forces of good and put together an amazing coalition and dealt with that aggression in just exactly the right way. gave sad am hussein every chance in the world to right his wrong and when he stopped at the border, it was the right thing to do. on the domestic side, there was issues related to the economy and taxation and he worked a compromise with congress that

turned out to be his down fall because he made a very famous statement. in politics. >> read my lips -- no new taxes. >> he did what was right at the time a economists reflecting on his actions support what he did to keep the economy going. he signed into law the legislation for disabilities act and the first volunteer service act for the united states. he had legacy actions domestic and foreign that will put him at the very high ranks and a little bias but highest ranks of our president. one of the 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 george bush was invited to the

white house for a presentation. for the 5,000th type the points of light institute presented 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 gentler nation because of you and we can't thank you enough. [ applause ] >> just like a rock, a steady stability and kindness and lovingness and he's never wavered one iet oat at that from that. coming up, the bush brother from another mother, president bill clinton, his admiration for bush 41 is striking. it's next. we don't sit idle wondering how we're going to build a better truck. we get out there and walk a mile, thousands of miles, in the footsteps of the guys we build trucks for.

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♪ i always liked him. you know, i liked him because after he had a very tough fight with president regan, when he vice president, he did. >> though they were once strong political opponents it turns out former president bill clinton was one of george h.w. bush's admirers. >> the first time i met him was in summer of 1983. the governor's association met up in maine and he hosted them in his house in kenny punk port. >> so we all went there. >> i had my daughter who was then three years old. i walked up to the vice president and i said, mr. vice president i want you to meet my daughter chelsea. i said chelsea, this man is the vice president of the united states. he reached over and shook her hand and she said where is the bathroom? >> he was impressed by bush.

>> he took her by the hand and took her to the bathroom and introduced my daughter to his mother who was then still living and made a big impression on the kind of man he is. . he is kind and he treats everybody with genuine respect regardless of the differences. >> while the two men didn't agree on many issues he was struck by his integrity. >> i liked him because he was a conservative but he was open. idea logs on the right or left get into trouble. he voted for the open housing bill in 1968 in congress to integrate housing in america. i thought that showed that he had the carriage to be open to facts and i liked him because i thought he was a very good man. i think that he will go down in history for the positive things that he did who improve the security of the united states in his term the berlin wall felt which was in part a reflection

of the failure of communism and in part reflection of the success of every american president from harry truman through george bush. just standing up to freedom. >> in 2000 clinton invited the bushes to the white house for a notable engagement. >> we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the white house in 2000. i invited all of the living presidents and former first ladies there. it was an amazing night of american history, but it was after the 2000 election and before the supreme court had ordered the election to president bush, his son. there they were sitting in the white house. they had to be calm, they had to try to enjoy this and had to realize the weight of the moment yet they had no idea whether his son was going to be president or not. they handled it. they were amazing.

>> former presidents gather for events on rare occasions. but bush and clinton had been fond together time and again. on 2004 a day after christmas an earthquake shook and a tsunami hit the coast of asia. more than 200,000 people were dead or missing. many areas were destroyed. the two presidents bill clinton and george bush showed americans that we are sometimes more united than divided. this unlikely team raised over a billion dollars in relief funds. >> one of the countries hardest hit was maldives most didn't know where it was. most people didn't know about sree randa, what happened in e thailand. we kindled our bond that existed before the election in a way this wasn't possible in the

years that i was president. i loved it. we had a great time together. i think we did a lot of good. >> the unusual partnership was tapped again the next year after hurricane katrina devastated the gulf coast. >> it made people feel good to see not only a republican and democrat but two people who run against p each other to work together. it caused people to relax because they realize you can agree and disagree. we still don't agree on everything. they refer to me as their black sheep son i am the one who strayed from the fold. that's really the way america should work before people get out of politics. i like him. i think we just had to keep struggling to find common ground in this country. i can tell you on his part it was genuine. he cared about the work we did together, he enjoyed the time we spent together. he believed that people who had the opportunities we have had in life should serve as long as they live and are able.

i want people to know that about him. he is a good man. >> president clinton believes george bush should be remembered and admired simply for the way he lived his life. >> if every american could have seen him driving that speed boat not only -- he became the young than the youngest fighter pot low shot out of the air in world war ii when he was only 18. you get that boyish excitement and fire in his eyes and you could see that's really the secret to every man and woman's life, you have to have something to look forward to. and you have to find joy in the moment and he does. the idea that he's still jumping out of airplanes every five years to mark his birthday. it's astonishing. so that is why i would like for people to remember about him. the guy has a lot of juice. he loves life and he is a genuinely good man.

>> some people find it astoni astonishing that these two political rivals became such good friends. i have interviewed them both and i know their relationship to be genuine. as president bush has said just because you disagree on something doesn't mean you can't work together. that's an attitude that once separated much of american politics from the rest of the world. it is the character of h. w. bush. we close the bush family album with these words. >> he was a professional, and he was a man with a great heart. he taught me values matter and principles shouldn't be violate mentd. >> he's laul, he's kind and thoughtful. he's funny. >> the example he set for us there is no greater gift that we can have. >> he is going to be remembered

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