canc kelly, thank you for joining us. i'm megyn kelly. this is "the kelly file." >> we met at a dance, he was the first person who ever kissed me. i almost fainted from excitement. >> he packed up mother and me and moved out to >> we met at a dance, he was the first person who ever kissed me. i almost fainted from excitement. >> he 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 would meet. he is very kind and good and old

fashioned. >> it is amazing how he lives, by his actions. >> he is modest. there is a difference. >> he is not perfect and no one is. but amazingly he is as close as you can get. >> he was the only dad who could catch baseball straight behind his back. he was 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 brit hume. while historians and journalists will both praise and criticize the president, the family remembers him first and foremost, a loving family man, a man with a servant's heart. on this program, a peek into the

bush family. you will hear from bush 41 himself. he sat in on an interview with his wife and couldn't resist add ing a few comments. just across this cove 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. and was made more real when i thought about that raft, the piece of the raft. >> he is a war hero to many americans. and to his own children. they, the bush kids, describe growing up as our 41st president's sons and daughters. many of the photos inside this until now private album were taken at their home on the coast

of maine in kennebunkport. >> it means it is a place where our family gathers. >> walker's point is a summer home where years of bush family history has occurred. >> lot of memories, happy memories, all of them. >> my great grandfather purchased in the early 1900s. mother and dad love going there. he loves going there, he loves to fish, with the waves crashing on the rocks. he found solace, and it is a place where his sons and daughter come to be with had him. >> the only time he was not there was when he was in the military. it is a powerful thing, soothing for my dad. >> my parents had moved almost over 50 times, maybe over 50 times. so we have had a pretty transient life but that has been our one constant. we love it. we know our second cousins once

removed because of kennebunkport. >> it's a big sprawling piece of land. it carries a huge amount of family history in it. but it is neither too opulent or overdone in any way. they're not trying to impress anybody. it says a lot about him and about barbara bush. you know, it is a place for family and friends to be together. and that is the attraction of it. that is what you feel when you're there. >> you can see by his body actions and his words how important kennebunkport, maine, is to him. how important it is to 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 that he has had in his life, which in my mind far exceeds anything that anybody else in our family has done.

>> my husband is great. we have been married 65 years. and there is no dark side. truthfully. sometimes he makes me sort of mad but i have never been ashamed or embarrassed about him. and i have always been proud of him. >> george herbert walker bush met barbara pierce 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 -- >> no, he didn't say that. he said yeah, george said go cut in on her, in those days we did that. and you can bring her over. introduce me to her which he did do. they played a waltz, and waltzing matilda didn't waltz. and he said do you mind if we sit down for a minute, and i did, and we talked. then i went over to the andover dance with them and he's the first person that ever kissed me.

first person who ever kissed me. in front of about 15 people who didn't seem to notice. i almost fainted from excitement. 16, 17 -- you were 17? >> you were 16. >> 18 the next day. he was. that is like a song, you were 16. >> i don't think they're 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. >> we wouldn't hear from you forever. his mother and father were wonderful. and i had a brother who was overseas. i had a brother-in-law who was overseas. but it was different, different times. >> lieutenant junior grade bush flew an avenger torpedo bomber off carriers.

the targets of his 58 bombing missions were japanese installation on small islands in the pacific. bush's wartime diaries includes descriptions of his close calls and a bombing run that was hit by japanese flag. bush completed the mission then headed to sea. he was able to bail out, but his crew, the tail gunner and radio man did not survive. >> when he was shot down i got a notice that they had seen him rowing away. they thought somebody picked him up. and then his mom called me about a day later saying he is fine, he is in hawaii. he could have come home then, he chose to stay. he is a hugely patriotic american. >> bush arrived home on christmas eve 1944. two weeks later, family and friends attended george and barbara's wedding. >> it was a very funny sort of day, we had a lunch, my honest husband just stood up and wowed them all because he said something nice about -- and you

know, barbara means beautiful, blah, blah, and on and on. when you look it up, it means barbara means barbaric, strange, but he just lied. the only lie i know he's ever made. it was beautiful, the wedding. >> not long after their wedding day, the new bride's father wrote a letter predicting the young couple's future. >> george is at yale, i think he is the big man on campus, but some day he could be president of the united states. he really thought george was wonderful. we did not expect that then. we didn't think he would be the president then, but he worked hard all of his life and did the best he could, i believe. best son, best father, best student. always. must have been hard -- >> athlete. >> best athlete. >> get the pictures for you in a minute. >> barbara bush credits the bush family matriarch for much of her husband's success. >> dorothy walker bush -- well,

first of all, she was the most extraordinary woman. she was a great golfer, great tennis player, great paddle tennis player. and very nice. put on less airs than anyone i knew. she really 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 maybe she made george a fault he shouldn't have had. she told me one day, i think george bush is the greatest president i knew. i knew a lot. but he had one fault. he never took credit. >> george h.w. bush's personal modesty has not kept his family and his wife from telling in the way he never would how he influenced them, america, and indeed the world. more of the bush family album in a moment. t!

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besides the love for my father, was the fact that my dad moved frf new england to texas. >> president bush was the oldest of 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 had never been here before. it was dusty, 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 didn't really want to work with something you couldn't touch, like banking or something his family had done m. and he was offered jobs by a lot of groups. who was it that turned you down? proctor & gamble. >> oh, they make a fine soap. >> they do make a fine soap.

he wanted to go, he went to corpus christi, i think, 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 the team. they went to the ncaa championship twice, sadly lost both times. i used to love to play catch with him. 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 at least, of me being able to catch a baseball. >> and the bush family began to grow, first with a daughter, robin, and another son, jeb, bush learned the oil business and founded a corporation with a group of investors in 1953. it became an offshore drilling

operation with rigs around the wrorl. >> we went through very tough times. when the rig went down, and it is a third of your profits, that is tough. but you have to have someone who knows that you have 60 people or whatever, depending on your liveliho livelihood. i think that is important. >> the difficult times the bushes faced in the oil business were nothing that a parent faces when it is their worst nightmare. when 3-year-old robin contracted leukemia and died a year later. learning the payroll became key. >> when he told me he would run for county chairman he didn't quite tell me there were some 300 or 200 precincts. and when he was campaigning i thought they would all fall down and say yes, perfect. all of 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 he used to build his company, george h.w. 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 reagan extremely well. he remained loyal to the man who had picked him to be the vice president right up into the right moment which was the convention. and when the curtain rose he gave one of the greatest convention speeches ever. and that then helped define who he was. >> i will keep america moving forward, always forward, 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 an informal guy. he can relax. and he sure loved his dog, ranger.

and i love the picture of ranger, relaxed on the rug in the oval office. the picture, to me, speaks about the importance of the job. the amount of work that a president has to do in order to do the job that people expect. having ranger around added some comfort to him. >> george h.w. bush's presidency faced challenges and opportunities on both the international and domestic fronts. the gulf war gave bush one of the highest approval ratings ever for any president. >> four morer years! >> but his numbers fell sharply during the 1992 presidential campaign. >> i think this is the worst year of my life. watching george bush getting defeated for president. >> i just called governor clinton over in little rock and offered my congratulations. he did run a strong campaign. >> what was interesting about the moment, mother's attitude was it is over get on with your life. that is exactly what we did.

with his help. and his encouragement. >> george called everyone to come into the east room. the staff. they were very, very proud of him. and a wonderful announcement, ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. and in walks -- and he was funny. >> actually, i was staying in the lincoln bedroom last night and i couldn't resist getting on the phone and called the secret service as the president. i feel like going jogging tonight. in the nude. >> i remember a lot of things. wouldn't be prudent. not going to do it. >> he always had these silly gestures which i don't use. not gonna do it. wouldn't be prudent. that kind of thing. >> and george you were very good, you 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 precious

mother died the day that the clinton's came to see the white house. >> the loss of the presidency for george bush held an unusual twist of fate. >> i thought about it a lot. it just broke my heart when he said i realize that 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 it took a little while for me to buy that but i think that is true. >> and maybe george wouldn't have been elected president. >> he wouldn't, well, he wouldn't have been governor. so maybe that is okay. >> would have been very difficult for me to have run in 1994, and difficult for jeb to have 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 had served as president. john adams was our second president and son, john quincy adams, number six. george bush 43 remembers his first day in office and the surprise visit from 41. >> and i was sitting in the office just flekting, absorbing the environment. and in walks my father. it was a very touching moment that he would come and share the early moments of my presidency with me. >> president george w. bush and george w.h. bush share some things in common. >> 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 was i'll provide examples for you on how to live your life. i'll 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 am eternally grateful. >> and there's at least one thing that sets the two presidents apart. >> i think it is fabulous, but not to the point where i want to emulate him. when he was a kid and had to jump out of an airplane after getting shot down, he hit his head and couldn't remember the moments so he wanted to relive what it was like to jump out of an airplane. since then he is serving as an example to older citizens that you know, you can live life to the fullest. and i think it is really cool. >> throughout his life, president george h.w. bush set examples for others to follow, including me. i followed bush 41 out of 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. ugh. heartburn.

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family. as they were growing up, their father left the oil business to enter politics. >> when you're 10 years old and you see your father on a billboard, it's pretty neat. he lost his first el'eggs. big deal, everybody expected him to lose. he ran for congress and was one of only 24 congressmen at that point in texas who was a republican. the only republican. so that was a pretty big deal. and then you know as your profile rises in politics, there is more scrutiny. and for those of us who obviously care about my dad it gets tougher and tougher. >> but with his family's support and despite many political battles, bush never shied away from seeking public office. >> we had lived in washington a lot. he was a congressman when george was head of the cia, head of the republican party. he was a lot of things. he is a man who can't say no. >> after the thankless job of heading the republican national

committee during water gate and the resignation of nixon, president ford offered bush a choice of enviable posts. >> when he said guess where we are going? they guessed 400 countries before we got to china. i think it was the best thing that happened to us. [ speaking chinese ] >> i would talk to myself. and when we got over there, not one thing that i had learned was appropriate. i loved it. i loved the food. it was devine. >> we did take a really fun trip to china. we were over there for a month or a couple of months. and we traveled. my mom became an expert on a lot of the tourist sites in china. but especially the forbidden city. it was a pretty exciting time.

>> and there were further interesting and challenging times ahead for the bush children. >> when my dad became president, i mean, it was a huge thrill. it was not a surprise, really, i mean, it is not as if he was not qualified to be president. i don't know, it kind of fit. but for us, it was just the same. >> i will say it was not all that fun that much of the time. because the intensity is just ratcheted up. also of us are just so protective of our dad there is per accepting and then there is reality. there was a "newsweek" article that said the wimp factor. i thought, that's kind of odd. he was a war hero. he went to washington, here is a guy who literally watched his daughter die, which takes a lot of courage to keep a family together after that. here is a guy who by virtue of

the way he lived his life, had proven that he's anything but a wimp. and so you have a perception, and then there is reality. so you can handle that in a couple of ways. you can retreat, or you can do what we did, which is spend more time with him. >> my dad is famous for letter writing. and so that gives you a glimpse of who he is. >> george bush expressed his gratitude to others through 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 letters written when my heart was heavy, or full of joy. caring letter, 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? >> daughter doro was the author of "my father."

the memoir he was too modest to write. in 2006, the uss george h.w. bush was wrichristened. it seems appropriate to honor him for a life of service to his country. doro got to wield the champagne bottle. >> the world's best sponsor, she really is, she is unbelievable, she has put in a library. she put in tapes for the moms and dads to read a child's book and then send the tape home so they can hear the voice. that is nice. she has been a great sponsor. >> on june 10th, 2012, the bush family welcomed the ship to the maine coast. they spent time with the crew of 60 sailors. >> they sent me a picture of the new carrier, this thing, gosh,

it's beautiful. beautiful. that is one part of the navy. i loved being at sea. are you ready? >> yes, sir. >> hold on. >> for a guy who is sort of -- lives you know, life straight down the middle he is very aggressive in his boat. >> i'm not going to say reckless, because he is not reckless, because he is good at driving the boat. but for an 85-year-old dude to go 50 miles an hour over three to four-feet wave, it's pretty aggressive. >> whenever he had the chance, george bush shared his love of the ocean, fishing and fast boats with friends and visitors. >> dad was anxious to give president putin at the time a ride in his boat. vladimir is an outdoorman, he's an adventurer. so we get into his boat and of course, after a slow start he cranks that baby up.

it was interesting to watch vladimir's reaction to the older former president blasting across the atlantic. fortunately, diplomatic relations were not severed at that moment. >> one thing you'll know from spending time with people who know and love my father is, you know, he's got literally 200 people who think they're among his fife best friends. we always joke in our family about having the fifth beatle, meaning there are four boys and another dude out there. >> and we call those fifth beatle types brothers from another mother. because there are tons of them. >> coming up, he was a political rival but also a great admirer of president george h.w. bush. >> they refer to me as the black sheep son. i'm the one that strayed from the fold. >> we'll be right back.

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integrity of ukraine. clashes between palestinians and israeli police spreading from jerusalem to arab towns to the north. hundreds of protesters taking to the streets after the results of an autopsy on a 16-year-old palestinian boy were announced. the teen was burned to death. palestinians say he was killed in a revenge attack, that following the murders of three israeli teens. the israelis say their investigation is still ongoing. i'm anita vogel. welcome back to a bush family album. coming up, jeb bush, neil bush, and the self-described black sheep of the bush family, former president bill clinton tell us what they thought about president george h.w. bush, and why. my dad is the most complete man i know. >> governor john ellis, jeb bush. >> it is hard to describe him as a son. but he is courageous, he is honest, he has unimpeachable integrity.

all the traits you would describe as 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 that jeb, the second son admired most in his father is what he sees as his courage. >> my dad exhibited that his entire life, starting as the youngest navy pilot in world war ii. moving to midland and his business, that took courage to get out of one's comfort zone. to take the risk of running for office in the minority party back in the early days of the republican party in texas. and then certainly as president. he showed a toughness and a fortitude that people didn't think he had. he wasn't a politician. when we were growing up, remember he got involved in politics when he was 40. he was a business guy, he traveled a lot. he was working hard. but when he was with us, it was always fun. we always did things. we were always going to a baseball game, going to play tennis or just outdoors.

he was not strict. but when we messed up, his words of simply 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 raising 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. i mean, like george w. in florida called me once, and jeb 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 is

the matter? jeb finally gets it out. he said well, 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. just kidding, mom. >> that is just an average bush joke. right? right. >> in the '88 campaign i worked full time so it was also kind of personal for me, very gratifying to see the victory, people forget this, but he was down 15 points in the polls with two months to go. it shows the extraordinary tenacity and determination of my dad that inspire everybody else to work a little harder. if you look at the four years it was packed with really incredible events that could have gone in many different directions, but for my dad's

leadership. he acts on hoiz convictions. >> the world is such that this aggression will not stand, and it will not stand. >> there was a tough 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 is probably the biggest fallacy, you can be tough and be kind. in fact, being tough in a bravado sense is not tough. you don't want a president that's always focused on themselves. you want presidents that act on principle and carry it out, and he did. >> as president, i can report to the nation, aggression is defeated. the war is over. >> it is something that he will get nauseous when he hears it, but i think more as the accomplishments as president or as a public figure, the fact that my dad has literally thousands of friends, thousands

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. oh, boy, what do i know that the rest o 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 broccoli. so that doesn't count. >> neil bush, the third born bush boy is the head of the points of light institute. it was started during his father's presidency. >> he has an enduring belief in this human quality of giving to others.

and he models that for people in his own life. he is the most unselfish human being i think you will probably ever meet. it is amazing how he lifts people not only by his example but by his actions. he is a very remarkable man. basically all of my teenage life and on he has been in political service. but i mean, it was very normal. and everyone thinks he drives around in limos or fly around in private airplanings or eat in the best restaurants. you know, we really had a very normal life. dad was out there cooking the burgers when i was a young kid. i think he is a pretty average family with exceptional parenting. i always thought so highly of him, it didn't surprise me when he became president. i thought he would be a great president. in fact we all worked hard to help him. >> along with the perks of living in the white house, that was not an option for the bush children. >> mom, dad supported her, she said if ever you were elected president, we wouldn't live in the white house. we were independent adults and

we have our own family lives. i think when the historians do look back at my father's presidency they're going to see a remarkable pattern of success in everything he did. on the domestic side and on the foreign policy side, the tearing down of the berlin wall. you know, he dealt with the teen tiananmen crisis in china, and dealt with it with a diplomatic savvy, obviously, when saddam attacked kuwait, my father dealt with that in exactly the right way. gave saddam every chance in the world to right his wrong. and then when he stopped at the border it was the right thing to do. >> on the domestic side you know there were issues related to the economy and taxation and he worked to compromise with congress which turned out to be

his downfall. because he made the very famous, kind of politics statement. >> read my lips. no new taxes. >> he did what was right at the time. and the economists in reflecting on his actions, support what he did to keep the economy going. he signed into law the legislation for the disabilities act. he signed into law the first volunteer service oriented act for the united states. had he had some legacy actions, domestic and foreign, that will put him at the very high ranks, i'm a little biassed, obviously, but at the very high ranks of our presidents. i think one of the most important legacies for my own personal selfish perspective is his commitment to volunteerism and to encouraging others to try to pitch in and do what they can to make the world a better place. >> on july 16th, 2013, george

bush was invited to the white house for a presentation. for the 5,000th time, the points of light institute presented their award. 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. >> just like a rock, he just has this steady civility and kindness and givingness and lovingness. and he never wavered one iota from that. coming up, the bush brother from another mother, president bill clinton. his admiration for bush 41 is striking. it's next. s

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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 asked to be vice president, he did. >> though they were once strong political opponents it turns out that bill clinton was always one of h.w. bush's admirers. >> the first time i met him i believe was in the summer of 1983 the governor's association met up in maine and he hosted them at his house in kenny bunk port. so we went up there. and i had my daughter who was then three years old and i walked up to the vice president and i said mr. vice president i would like you to meet my daughter chelsea and i said this man is the vice president of the united states. >> clinton was impressed by

bush. >> and he took her by the hand and took her to the bathroom and introduced my daughter to his mother and it made a big impression on me. it's the kind of man he is. he is kind and treats everybody with genuine respect and he is interested in people who have different from him. >> while they didn't agree on many issues, he was struck by president bush's integrity. >> he was conservative but he was open to argument. people on the right and the left get the country into trouble. he voted for the opening 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 and i think he will go down in history for the positive things that he did to improve the security of the united states in his term, berlin wall fell,

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

>> former presidents gather for events on rare occasions. but bush had clinton have been found together time and again. in 2004, on the day after christmas, an earthquake shook and then a tsunami hit the coast of southeast asia. it was an unprecedented natural disaster. 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 $1 billion in relief funds. >> the maldives, people didn't know where it was which part was hurt and what part of thailand and we rekindled our bond that existed before the election in '92 in way that just wasn't possible in the years when i was

president. and i loved it. we had a great time together and i think we did a lot of good. >> the unusual partnership was tapped against 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 had run against each other work together. it caused people to relax because people could agree and disagree. they refer to me as their black sheep son. i'm the one that strayed from the fold. but that's really the way america should work. before people get out of politics. you know, i like him. i think we just have to keep struggling to find common ground in this country. and 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 had in life

should serve as long as they live and are able. >> president clinton believes george bush should be remembered anded a mierd simply for the way he lived his life. >> if every american could have seen him driving that speedboat not only with daring but skill he became the same man who was the youngest fighter pilot shot out of the air in world war ii when he was only 18. because he would get that boyish excitement and fire in his eyes and you could see, you have to have something to look forward to and you have to find joy in the moment, and he does. and the idea he is still jumping out of airplanes every five years to mark his birthday, i mean, it's astonishing. that's what i'd like for people to remember about him. the guy's got a lot of juice. he loves life. and he is a genuinely good man.

some people find it aon theiving that these two political rivals became such good friends. i've interviewed them both and know their relationship to be genuine. 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 and is it basic to the character of president george h.w. bush. and now we close the bush family album with these words. >> he was professional and he was a man with a great heart. he taught me that principles matter. >> he's loyal and kind and thoughtful. he's funny. >> the example that he set for us, it's no other greater gift we could have. >> the final legacy is he's going to be, you know,

remembered as a president that just had a great love for people. you know, and his ability to bring out the best in people. >> history is more like an ocean rather than a stream. so you can't necessarily impact events but over time the cumulative effect of people looking at that period of time, i think my dad will be treated really, really well. well. quiet! mom has a headache! had a headache! but now, i& don't. excedrin is fast. in fact for some, relief starts in just 15 minutes. excedrin. headache. gone.

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