tuesday. rainy wednesday as well as for thursday. >> thanks for watching kpix news this morning. next local update at 7:26 and cbs this morning is coming up next. this is a cbs news special report i'm norah o'donnell and john dickerson in washington where flags here and elsewhere are flying at half staff. george h.w. bush is in houston where he will soon make his final journey to the nation's capitol. the 41st president died at his

home on friday night. he was 94 years old. >> this morning mr. bush's casket will be brought from the funeral home to the air force base in south houston. one of the planes used, air force one, is waiting where he will lie in state at the nation's capitol. people will begin paying their respects there starting tonight. >> reporter: you hear the church bells ringing on the hour. the president's service dog sully said goodbye last night. they tweeted this photo with the caption, mission complete, and yes, it is. this morning he revealed the necktie and socks that mr. bush will wear to the grave. mcgrath calls the socks a tribute to the former navy pilot's lifetime of service. we spoke yesterday with the man who has been a spiritual guide in mr. bush's life for the past decade. he was actually in the room

during the final hours for both the president and his wife, barbara, who died in april. he told us the president's final moments were like something that anyone would have wanted. surrounded by loving family and friends, ready to leave this world for the next. >> i see history as a book with many pages. >> reporter: today another page in the history book turns. >> and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. >> reporter: as the nation honors one of the country's most devoted public servants. >> this is america. >> reporter: he built a life around the theme of his most famous speech. >> brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. >> reporter: and shown as a young navy pilot in world war ii, serving decades in government, from cia director to vice president to the nation's highest office. >> so help me god. >> reporter: less than a year into his term, the berlin wall

fell and a decisive victory for the u.s. military in the gulf war led to high approval ratings. but he was criticized for not removing saddam hussain from power leading to a broken campaign promise. >> read my lips. no new taxes. >> reporter: as one of the reasons he was a one-term president. >> this man i always liked and respected and then run against, a painful campaign in some way,. i literally came to love. >> reporter: most of all, george herbert walker bush loved family. >> i was flying home to houston from florida, and i said to barbara, this is the happiest day in my life. and she said, what about the day we were married? i said, that was a nice day, too. >> reporter: president and mrs. bush had an unshakeable bond even after her death. and in his last moments, close

friend and former secretary of state james baker said the president spoke his final words in a phone conversation. >> v >> the very last words he spoke were spoken to george w. bush, president 43, and he told him how much he loved him and that he would see him on the other side. and 41 said, i love you, too. >> reporter: and this was a family that really did love each other. right now we are waiting for members of the bush family who will accompany the former president's casket to lellingto field air force base. omar is here where they are handling arrangements for the funeral. omar, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're expecting members of the bush family to arrive here shortly. it will be a well choreographed

line that will go on. there are doza dozen motorcycle officers that will take them to ellington. there will be traffic but that motorcade will help them cut through there. once they get to ellington field, there will be dignitaries, members from the city council, diplomats and others ready to see him off. as he is loaded onto the airplane that was sometimes used as air force one, they will head to andrews air force base in washington, d.c. a lot of people are talking about it, sully the dog as well as members of the bush family will be on that trip as they head to washington, d.c. then there will be another ceremony at 3:30 eastern time this afternoon to honor the late president. he will then be taken to the u.s. capitol where his body will lie in state. the capitol will be open around

the clock to allow the public to pay its respects. now, mr. bush will stay at the capitol until wednesday. there will be a memorial service at the national cathedral, then he'll depart to washington, return to houston for a private ceremony, and then, of course, he will be taking the train to college station where he will be laid to rest at his library. bianna? >> reporter: omar, thank you. norah and john, i spoke to a fellow houstonians here who said they will be lining up outside and they will be saluting their commander-in-chief and their neighbor as well is. so many in this city love him. >> thank you, buy iannbianna. the former president will be brought to houston where he served as congressman and president in the '80s. nancy is there this morning.

nancy, good morning. >> reporter: the president will arrive at the capitol behind me and then he will be taken out by a military national guard and he will be taken up the steps behind me and into the capitol rotunda. george h.w. bush will be just the 11th president to lie in state in the rotunda of the u.s. capitol. the last was gerald ford back in 2007. we will be able to witness a brief bipartisan ceremony saying goodbye, and then the doors will be open to the public. they'll be lining up this afternoon. members of the public will be able to walk through, pay their respects, say goodbye all night long, and the casket of george h.w. bush will continue to lie in state in the rotunda until wednesday morning when it is brought to the national cathedral for the funeral. >> thank you, nancy. >> nancy, thank you. cbs news chief white house correspondent major garrett is here along with cbs news

contributor and chief former correspondent bob schafer and susan page is also with us. good morning to all of you. it seems to me, bob, we have three people. george bush the father, george bush the commander in chief and george bush the president. tell us about his life before he became president. >> he did it all. he was one of the shapers of the world order after world war ii. you know, he was at the united nations. he was later the head of the cia, then he went on to be our first envoy to china. he punched all the -- he got his ticket punched a lot of different ways, and he clearly learned from that experience. he represented mainstream

republican thought at that particular time. he was the mainstream republican as we knew the republican party in those days. he was an internationalist, he had respect for alliances, he believed that the united states always did better when it worked with allies who shared our values. and it worked for him and it worked for the country. >> you know, bob, it's been said that he was the most qualified man to ever reach the office of the presidency because he had held so many of those positions you just mentioned. and that he may have been one of the most consequential because he was president at the time of the cold war. susan, how did he govern as a president? you covered him inside the white house. >> he was a very collaborative president and he was one who worked across party lines. in all these previous jobs, he had spent time with people on the other side, so there wasn't the kind of -- it's not that it was a golden era bipartisanship,

but it was not kind of frozen in two camps that we seem to be now. one thing he was willing to do was take jobs nobody wanted. he took two jobs that nobody wanted. he took over chairmanship of the republican committee during watergate because nixon didn't want to do that, then he took over the embattled cia. it's a surprise that he survived to be president after agreeing to take it over those two tasks. >> when we talk about public service, what are we talking about? it's taking tough tasks because it's your duty and it's tough getting up the ladder. president bush said, prudency matters as does experience. let's talk about that experience. >> it was the cold war.

really important. there was a shooting war going on in vietnam. bipartisanship around the question of survival and up against the communist threat was a real thing. it was existential to our country's orientation, to itself, its future and our politics. george bush as president oversaw the calm end of the cold war, and yet with that came a decoupling with the threat. you could be partisan without the risks associated with the cold war. one of the reasons we were bound closer together during the cold war and because of this external threat. the threat was removed, and our politics became a little more partisan because we could indulge that partisanship. and some of those strains first showed up against h.w. bush when he was president out of the democratic party in his own party. and even so, he maintained this organic approach to the legislative mission of the

presidency, which is to get things done. you look at those 40 years, more things were accomplished across the aisles in those four years than anyone else in modern history. >> a fully controlled democratic congress, the americans for disabilities act, the clean air act. >> the civil rights act. >> civil rights act. >> increasing he unemp t changes and also the wages. >> you know, i think one of his great strengths was his ability to restrain rhetoric and to keep the tone as calm as possible. i think he had a great deal to do -- it's not my phrase, but i think he had a great deal to do with the cold war ending at a whimper rather than a bang. because when the berlin wall fell, he knew not to run out and brag about it because -- and george w. bush told me this himself. he said he had this great ability to put himself in the other guy's shoes.

he knew he was going to need the help of gorbachev to have this thing come out right. they weren't sure they would be able to have germany and the united states unite. because of the restraint he showed at the time, he was able to get those things done. >> and that restraint was important, because if gorbachev had pushed back, it would have been met with restraint. >> at the time it was not appreciated within the republican party. there was certainly a sense that pres sh did not know how to rhetorically explain this moment to the country, that there wasn't this celebration. there wasn't this moment of american triumphalism that we all observed, that we spent 60 years trying to accomplish. his orientation was i'll take

that criticism for the longer term gains of stability. >> and both democratic leaders in congress were hitting him on it, too, so he was getting it from the left to the right. susan, in his diary and jon meacham's book, he wrote that they will destroy the party. this was his feeling about it. give us your sense of newt gingrich and his rise happening within the bush presidency. >> well, it was really the rise of a new right in the republican party. it meant -- today there is no remnant of the moderate new england republicanism that his father, prescott bush, represented this senator from connecticut. it was a time of real change in the republican party and the democratic party. in part, as major was saying, president bush was, in a way, a victim of his own service. he helped negotiate the peace of a cold war, and then he said, great, we defe the s

union, what a us? he never seemed to be able to make that pivot into the first persian gulf war to people's concerns about problems they had at home with getting a job and getting a raise and sending their kids to a good college. it wasn't where his heart was. his heart was really in those big foreign policy challenges. and bill clinton came along very much tuned in to people's anxieties about their own lives. >> you talk about him putting in public service before politics, that's how he got himself beat when he ran for reelection. i covered that campaign in '98. every five minutes he would say, read my lips, no new taxes. then when the deficit blew out of control, he recognized that he had to do something about it. he had to go back on that promise. and he did raise taxes, and it worked. it got the economy back operating again, but it also cost him the election because a lot of people on the right simply never forgave him. >> george w. bush told me, too,

it was the fracturing of the republican base, that the breaking of that promise fractured the republican party that some say led us to where we are today with a presidency led by president donald trump. i want to touch base with paula reed. she is at the white house. paula, good morning. what have we heard from the president and how he will be involved in these services? >> reporter: here at the white house, the flag continues to fly at half staff. the president has had nothing but kind words for president h.w. bush. he has called it an unflappable leadership, which surprises people because apparently president trump has had a combative relationship with the bush family, with each trading insults. he called iraq a disaster on many occasions, he even talked

about his volunteerism and he used president bush as a low energy jab in the 2016 primary. president trump is not well liked in the bush family. senior bush told people he did not like him. he believed he was a blowhard. george w. bush has criticized his nativism that donald trump promotes, and even barbara bush said she wasn't sure why people would even vote for him. so it may come as somewhat of a surprise that he will participate in this week's funeral if he festivitiefestivi being included because both sides have a sense of a truce and they don't want to cause issues with president trump. president trump draws a sharp contra contrast. he was a war hero. he served in the cia. he was born into this political family and always treasured. a lot of the norms that president trump criticized is on a daily basis. it appears former president bush

wanted trump included in these events so that he would not become the center of attention. and it's fair to say that as we see president bush alongside the other members of this small fraternity of former presidents, it may even highlight just how isolated he is from his predecessors. >> paula reid at the white house. we are waiting for what may be the first pictures of the bush family who in houston are are gatheri gathering in the family home and will travel together traditionally what is air force one, but right now it is give agiven a new name called bush 41. do we know, did former president bush even vote for donald trump? >> he voted for hillary clinton. and his wife wrote in jeb bush's name. and that probably was the first

time he's never voted for a republican. >> that's the first time either of them had not voted for a republican. >> and george w. did not vote for trump but did not reveal who he did vote for, if memory serves. >> but george p. bush, the next generation of bushes, george p. bush is more in tune with the republican party. he supported trump. he led the texas victory committee that helped president trump as a nominee in 2016. he did a fundraiser with -- they scheduled a fundraiser with donald trump jr. that may have gotten canceled, but it was scheduled. they have some kind of relationship. so he reflects the more conservative tone of the republican party today. >> and he also wants to have a future in politics. >> he does. >> this isn't just a family opinion, this is somebody who wants a future. >> that's kind of a cynical view, john. >> i want to point out as we look at this family home in houston as they prepare to take

the family to ellington air force base that we're hearing from mr. mcgrath. he said members of the secret service protective division will serve as honorary pallbearers. if you know about the bushes, they were so well regarded not only by the white house staff but also the secret service. >> i enter is viewed former president bush almost a year ago in his home in houston, and you could tell how much affection there was between him and his secret service unit who had been with him for a long time. one of the very young sons, one of the agents, got leukemia and lost all his hair because of the treatment. all the agents shaved their hair to show solidarity and support. president bush did, too. >> wasn't he about 88 then? >> yes. >> and he shaved his head to

show solidarity. >> he was very inclusive with everyone on the team, he understood that. i think that's one of the reasons he was so successful during those days when the cold war was coming to an end. he had known a lot of people in diplomacy, he had known a lot of people in the military, and he had a good relationship with them and he encouraged that. that's one of the reasons he wrote all those notes. that's why he wrote to you. >> to the audience, these notes that bob just referred to, typewritten notes that george bush wrote throughout his political career. small notes, small measures of respect to build a political network, yes. but also to demonstrate a kindness and a sense of h humility. those notes were probably more adhesive to his political life.

these acts of kindness and this all-encompassing sense of the humanity of himself and the office carried on long after he left it. >> it's like lyndon johnson once said. people always remember who comes to your mom and dad's funeral. george bush was an extension of that. he -- and i think he was sincere about his kindness, but people never forget kindness, especially in difficult times. >> let me just point out we are seeing these buses that are arriving because the full extended bush family is all traveling together. and so as they will gather at the funeral home, they'll then be taken on these buses which is about a 40-minute ride or so to the air force base. and so that's kind of the family gathering together and traveling together. >> we talk about these notes which is, on the one hand, a mark of what bob was talking about earlier, this empathy. the idea that you know what somebody else is going through. george bush calling up al gore

after losing his son saying, i know what it's like to lose. those notes also represent those memberships over the year. that's how somebody knows to trust somebody on the other end of a conversation and not always be judging their moeftives. when we talk about another generation, that's what we're talking about. >> another thing george h.w. bush told his staff was he didn't want his first call to be member for a favor. so he was routinely making calls to members saying, how are you doing, what's going on? so when he needed to do something like build a coalition for iraqi forces in kuwait, he knew them and they knew him. it made it much easier to forge that really remarkable coalition. >> you think about former president h.w. bush and barbara

bush, they had six children. robin died at three of leukemia. the other five big families, and they are all gathered there at the funeral to pay homage to their grandfather or father, and omar is outside the funeral home. omar? >> reporter: norah, we're starting to see some of the family members arrive. three black buses just pulled up to the funeral home. it was heavy police presence as it is, and this was a little scurrying when the buses arrived. we're expecting them to step out. it will be a very quick ceremony here, just a few minutes, before they load nup tup in the motorc and start that 26-hour ride to ellington field. a police motorcade is here waiting for them to arrive. there is a hearse. it's got a seal on the side of it and two american flags. that's where the former president's casket will go. we're waiting to see exactly what family members, as they're

starting to get off the bus right now, are going to be here for the cere as bob schaefer mentioned, you always remember who came to your mom and dad's funeral. there are county commissioners waiting at ellington field waiting to see the president off. he was the former president who just happened to live next door. he became the fabric of this community when the city needed help. and now members of the bush family are getting off that bus there to go inside and get ready for the motorcade procedure. >> i see pierce bush, the grandson, and son neil bush, one of the president's -- oh, the dog, of course, has arrived and that was really part of honoring and helping the veterans as well. susan, you know ellington field. >> when president bush was defeated and his successor was inaugerat inaugerated, the plane took him and a small group back to ellington field. this was a very difficult time

for george bush because he had been defeated. he thought after the policy, he would be reelected. it took a long time for his friendship with bill clinton to develop. when they are driven by the secret service to the house they had rented while their new house was being built, there were houstonians lining the streets. there was a couple in a pickup truck holding a sign that said, welcome home, george and barbara. barbara was telling me this story in an interview i did just at the end of 2017, and tears welled up in her eyes remembering this country in 1993 who made a sign, put themselves on the back of a truck and held it up. >> it's that image of president bush arriving in heaven and greeting his wife of 73 years, barbara bush, and his daughter who passed away at age 3.

that thought is so comforting for so many people. >> it was a wonderful drawing, i thought. we're talking about how the republican party has changed. washington has changed. when i came to washington back during the hoover administrat n administration, in those days, it was a community where everybody knew everybody. people lived here, they brought their families here, their wives knew each other, the kids knew each other, and now it's a community of strangers. they come to washington, they don't move their families here, they live here for their -- they're in town for two, possibly three days, and then back to the home district to raise money. and it has changed washington for the worst. i know i sound like an old guy when i say that, but it has changed dramatically. >> i was talking to a senator recently who was saying just that thing, which is, i don't

really know my colleagues because we operate in silos. even when we're here together we have individual agendas. it's not just that people don't go to cocktail parties and you don't get to hang out and have nice chats, this is the social lubrication that allows things to get done. >> right, but it reflects changes in our country. congress is also more ethnically diverse, it is more diverse by gender. back in the 1970s and '80s, it was a white man's club, predominantly. there was a sense of experience among these white men. i'm not saying it's bad or inferior, i'm just saying it's different now. who is in congress, what does congress look like now? they were much more hardened now

than they were then. if newt gingrich were here, he would say, look, 40 years of democratic rule in the house had to end. the only way to end it was to be confrontational. that wasn't george h.w. bush's way, but it was my way. then once we confronted democrats, we won our majority and we were able to achieve things that republicans had long sought to achieve. that was the only way to get there. the bush way wasn't the only way. and the new republican party had a choice. and the new republican party took newt gingrich's confrontational choice more than h.w.'s. not to say one way was worse than the other, but it was a thorough political debate, and that hard-edged gingrich approach has stood at least for republicans. >> the soft side of that is the republican party is no furthhas further to the right. the democratic party has moved further to the left. the distance between the two parties is greater now and deeper now than it's ever been.

it's a sign of a difference between the two when newt gingrich helped bring down speaker jim wright and helped get that democratic leader basically kicked out of congress. george w. bush put out a press release talking about right service to the country. newt gingrich was demonizing him, and george bush the president was talking about the service that had been done to the country, kind of another example of what you're talking about. >> right. this idea that h.w. bush was a product of a time of minority republican orientations to power, you had to ask democrats to get what you wanted. newt gingrich said, no, we have to flip that script. put the republicans in charge, put the republican agenda first and have democrats come to us and we'll cut our deals with them on our terms, not theirs. that was a seminole moment for the republican party, it was a seminole moment for the h.w. bush party, and it cast a shadow in some respects, not all, for the trump presidency we have

now. >> we're about to begin the departure ceremony as we lay to rest the last president of the greatest generation, president george h.w. bush. his family gathering in houston there together at the george h. lewis son's funeral home. we're told when the coffin exits the funeral home, there will be a member of each branch of the military lining the path for the coffin to go to the salute, the pallbearers, members of the secret service who have guarded this president and kept him safe for many years, as well as many members of his family. and as those who have worked in the white house can tell you, they become like family as well, because you spend so much time with them. you always have them by your side. it's hard to get any alone time because you're being guarded. so there is a special bond that exists between those special members of law enforcement and secret service that develop a bond with the family. >> they know a lot of stuff,

too. >> they know the secret. >> not to too fine point on this. you have to them close. >> that's right, and we should note that bianna golodryga has been leading our coverage from down in houston. bianna? >> reporter: yeah, norah, one family member who is not at the funeral home, we've just been told, and will be meeting the body and the rest of the family at ellington field is former president george w. bush. he and laura bush will be reuniting with the family there to get on that 747 to fly to the nation's capitol. i want to get back to what susan was mentioning, the significance of the city of houston to the former president and the first family. this city was family for them, and the president not only felt like he let the country down when he lost reelection in '92, but he felt he let the city down. of course, that was not the case. they moved to this city as a young family in 1959. george bush was, in fact, the

first republican congressman to represent the city of houston. and along the way, all of those years they participated in the houston marathon, they participated in going to the rodeo. that was one of their favorite outings. and he really helped put houston on the map. if you think back to his death falling upon the g20, back in he brought he g7. it was much smaller then. but he brought the g7 here to the city of houston to really make it an international city and shine some light on the city that he called home, his adoptive home town. they lived just a few blocks away from here, and they came to church every weekend here at st. martin's episcopal church. i sat down with their reverend, and he was talking to me about how important it was for them to come here every week. they had a congregation of 9,500, and how important that sermon sunday, yesterday morning, was for this

congregation. one would imagine the whole sermon would be comprised of talking about the president, but not when it comes to this president who did not like the word "i." it was not about him. reverend levinson opened up by saying, let's all take a deep breath and let's acknowledge the remarkable life of the man, the president, number 41 and the remarkable life that he led. with that i want to turn to jan crawford because he really didn't like to make it about himself. it's a lesson his mother taught him. >> that's exactly right, and when we think about how his legacy will be defined and how they will debate it for generations. it's important to keep in mind that he was really the professional and personal in that common theme of dignity. >> jan, let me interrupt you because as we see, the family is coming out of the funeral home now, so let's go back to that. i want to go back to washington as we look at these family

members. there's his son neal who lived next door to him in houston. he was there the moment his mother passed away. he was there the moment his father passed away. the grandchildren are there as well. this is something, john and norah, that this country, this family had been prepared for, but it's never easy when that moment does come. this is a president that has had many scares in the past and has fought through them. this is one, obviously, he was not able to fight through as we await other family members and other children walking out. >> let's pause for a moment now as we see the casket being carried into the hearse.

>> we are witnessing the departure of former president george h.w. bush.

that's his family, son neil bush and his family. that's the dog sully who will go to washington and will go on to walter reed to help others in their care and recovery. you can see the herself there with the presidential seal on it and flags. and you can see those black buses which are carrying the extended bush family that has gathered there. they're telling us it's about a 40-minute drive to ellington field. there will be the 43rd president, george w. bush, and his wife laura bush, and there will be a departure ceremony there that is befitting of this president with a ceremony. as his family said, important not only to honor the life of former president george h.w. bush but also to celebrate the legacy and his accomplishments. as george h.w. bush told us in s

interview, he believes he will be viewed as a wonderful one-term president in history. his life spans geographical history of our time and historical events, too. a life well lived that began as a young man who enlisted in the navy. and from then on kept serving his country always. >> so this concept of career politician is downgraded, if not disdained in american politics now. skilled positive politicians are skilled because they're survivors. i think one of the things that george h.w. bush brought to his presidency is a concept less appreciated in politics now. we have a very firm understanding of politics right now of what my party needs or what my political agenda needs. the key to politics sis

understanding what your opponent needs. what is your opponent's background? where is your opponent coming from? what do they need to make a deal work for them? understanding more than yourself, understanding what your opponent's strengths, weaknesses, vulnerabilities are. this is a generation of politics who understood that fundamental truth and the hard work behind making that fundamental truth workable. >> you said that he may be seen as the most consequential one-term president we've had, and it's kind of like an object lesson for journalists to assume we know everything in the moment. that is not a judgment i think people would have made at the time he was trying to be reelected and headed back to houston. his decision on iraq not to push forward to baghdad, which was criticized by many, now seems like a very wise thing to do. the way he handled the cold war with a disintegrating soviet

union now looks so important, looks so crucial to not having violence or warfare at the end of the cold war. so he looks bigger has time goes on. i think that happens to presidents. some of them look better as time goes on. some of them look smaller. they tend to look less consequential than we thought at the moment. >> bianna is in houston. bianna? >> reporter: i will tell you, norah, those people who live on the streets, that are lucky enough to live on the streets where this motorcade will be passing through will be coming outside. it's a beautiful day today, but they would have come out in the rain, snow, whatever the weather to say goodbye and salute their commander-in-chief and their neighbor. he really was the man next door. he went to the basketball games, the houston rockets. man, did he love the houston astros. you would see him at the oilers games, and when the oilers became the texans, he was there as well. he was really someone who was one of the city's best

cheerleaders. and when you come to a high-class problem like this church behind me has with a congregation of 9,500 where the reverend had to send out notes saying, listen, both for when barbara passed away and now when the president passed away, the services will be private. everyone thinks they're invited because everyone thinks that they were the president and first lady's good friends. that's how close they were with the neighbors and with the community here. and jan, this goes back to the conversation we were having about the president not wanting to talk about himself. it was all about service and giving and caring about others. >> and we can see his legacy when you see his family coming in, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their devotion to public service. i think when we think about president bush and his legacy, it's impossible to touch on something we haven't even mentioned yet, and that's the united states supreme court which could be his lasting

legacy. for all the discussions that he was an established politician, he was someone that could bring both sides together to create consensus and get things done. he is responsible for putting on the supreme court the most conservative justice, a conservative icon, justice clarence thomas, who is beloved by conservatives. he got another nomination, justice ginsberg. but that c the supreme court, too, because republican servants vowed never to put a seder on the court. george w. bush really did try to turn the court in a more conservative direction and that's what we're seeing today. >> and anita hill came into the picture and knowing that this nomination was in jeopardy and the controversy that would ensue. many other presidents could have said, listen, let's find another nominee, this is not worth fighting for. he stood by clarence thomas and

he fought for that man. >> he always believed in clarence thomas as did many american people. he wanted to nominate clarence thomas earlier and decided he would first put david sater on the court. and becoming a conservative icon in his own right. he is an intellectual heavyweight on that court. he is one of the most forceful voices of conservatism on a supreme court. in fact, of all the nominees that president trump has put on the federal appeals court since he's been in office, more of those have been clarence thomas clerks when they were coming out of law school than any other justice. so you can't overstate justice thomas' influence in the legal community and on the courts, and that is as a result of george h.w. bush. >> and once again, highlighting, though it may have been a shorter presidency than george h.w. bush had hoped for,

obviously it had lasting impact, norah and john, as i send it to you, lessons that he passed on to his son as well. but what was also fascinating was when his son did become president, he put the brakes on and sat in the shadow, never wanting to overshadow the president that would follow, of course, that being his son. >> major, you're reacting to that as well. >> just building on jan's point about the supreme court. when donald trump was a candidate in 2016 in march, i recount this in my book, "mr. trump's wild ride," he has a meeting of putting together a list if he became a presidential nominee. he spent 30 years trying to get conservative jurists on the court. i don't want a sater. that's trump talking. that list that donald trump the

candidate puts together has two lifetimes in the general election campaign and is crucial to many republicans who are otherwise uncertain about whether they could live with donald trump or would even support him, but the future of the supreme court and his orientation to it and this idea about being serious and grooming and selecting those on the court is as important as donald trump winning the election as anything else. we'll be back with a cbs special report for the military sendoff at ellington joint reserve. coverage will continue throughout the day on your local news on the cbs station and our 24-hour streaming network, csn. you can watch at cbsnews.com. many of you will return now to "cbs this morning" on the west coast, and this has been a cbs

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it's monday, december 3, it's monday, december 3, 2018. welcome back to cbs "this morning." ahead, the nation remembers president george herbert walker bush. senator susan collins opens up about her friendship with mr. bush and his inspiring legacy. plus, in his only broadcast interview, the bush family pastor tells us how the 41st president wanted to be remembered. but first, here's today's eye opener at 8:00. president george h.w. bush will soon lie in state in the u.s. capitol. flags across the country will fly at half-staff. >> especially sad for the city of houston which lost two of its

most famous residents within a few months of each other. >> a loss not just for houston but to our nation and the world. >> what was he like as a father? >> he was a great father because he gave us unconditional love. and some of us tested it, i might add. >> he once told gorbachev he was cautious but not timid. >> he would not make some jump decision. he would think it through and decide what was best for the country and best for the world. >> yesterday hunt admitted he lied to the team when they asked about the alleged assault. >> has the nfl ever questioned you about that incident? >> no, they have not. >> they'll let odell beckham jr. throw it. >> the giants survive for an ulcer-inducing upset.

>> i'm john dickerson with nora o'donnell in washington. that was like we used to play after school. >> hey, he can catch and throw. >> what a man, what talent. president george herbert walker bush will return to washington for the last time this afternoon. gayle is off and bianna is reporting from houston. tributes are coming from worldwide as america prepares to say good-bye to its 41st president. the family spokesman sent this photo of one of the planes used as air force one waiting in houston to bring mr. bush's casket to washington. >> world leaders remember him as a skilled diplomat and tough negotiator who helped bring four decades of cold war to a peaceful end, bianna golodryga is leading our coverage from houston where he died friday night at the age of 49 and she is outside st. martin's episcopal church where he worshipped? >> houstonians wake up with a

heavy heart thinking of their beloved resident. thousands of mourners gathered to pay tribute to president bush. president jimmy carter now the oldest living president said president bush's administration was, quote, marked by grace, civility and social conscience. the houston rockets and texans honored mr. bush with a moment of silence. my parents would call me sometimes from games and say "the president is here." the late president is being remembered for his sense of humor. mr. bush once appeared on "snl" to respond to "saturday night live" comedian dana carvey's impression of him. >> not me, those crazy hand gestures. the pointing thing, i don't do them. and also "na ga da?" never said it. in all my years of government

service, i er once said "na ga da." >> just think of dana saying "wouldn't be prudent." the two became fast friends for 25 years. dana carvey said "what i remember most is how hard we would laugh. i will miss my friend." the pastor was with the former president and first lady barbara bush in their final moments of life. he told us mr. bush's life was generously, graciously and lovingly lived. how do you think he would have liked to have been remembered and celebrated? >> he wanted people to know it was his desire to serve. serve god, serve citizens around the world. his service was not a discriminating love, it had no

parameters. he had friends from every faith tradition, every race, every nation and we're seeing that right now around the world. >> so many people did love president bush. the reverend says president bush leaves a tremendous hole to fill. >> the 41st president will be honored with four days of memorials and events before reaching his final resting place. ed o'keefe is at joint base an dplus m. drews. >> the casket will be flown on a jet normally known as air force one but his has been dubbed special air mission 41. he will lie in state in the u.s. capitol rotunda until wednesday morning. that's when a motorcade will transport the casket through washington to the national cathedral for a state funeral. president trump and first lady melania trump plan to attend. president bush's casket will be

flown back to houston for a public viewing and final funeral service. on thursday morning, locomotive 4141 will escort president bush's casket to texas a&m university. in 2005, union pacific railroad painted the train the colors of air force one to honor mr. bush. finally, thursday afternoon, the 41st president will be laid to rest at the gated family plot at the bush presidential library on the grounds of the campus. he will lie next to his wife barbara and their daughter robin who died of leukemia at the age of three. back here, the forecast this afternoon calls for clear skies. just the kinds of conditions the formal naval pilot would love for flying. bianna? >> ed, thank you. susan collins remembers mr. bush as a compassionate leader. collins became close friends with the former president and first lady more than 20 years ago. >> back in 1994 when i was

running for governor of maine i had just won an eight-way republican primary and i got a call from president and mrs. bush inviting me to have lunch with them at kennebunkport at walker's point. you can imagine how absolutely thrilled that i was. and they were always so kind to me. my hope is that people will reflect on his legacy, on his grace, his dignity, on his accomplishments and that it will inspire people to try to find common ground and to put an end to a polarization and divisiveness that is so terrible for our country and our government right now. >> >> collins said she was touched the former president's final tweet praised her courage

and leader shship. the president and his young family moved to houston in 1959. a local reporter asked him about three years ago if he felt like a houstonian now and he said "i don't want to be less than kind, but that is a dumb question." he is a houstonian and he loves this city. >> he sure did. beeian, that thank you. president bush tried to have no permanent political enemies after he lost his reelection campaign. he became friends with the democrat who defeated him. former president bill clinton wrote in the "washington post" this weekend, i cherished every opportunity i had to learn and laugh with him. i just loved him. he was in it for the right reasons, people came before politics, patriotism before

paerdship. major garrett covered congress before president bush's term. >> let's start with the breaking of the no new taxes pledge. >> it began a division within the republican party that created a harder approach to taxation led by newt gingrich. he didn't support the president though the president assumed he would. bush loses in '92, gingrich becomes the revolutionary leader in '94, the first republican majority in congress in 40 years and then you have the tea party and donald trump. all of this is a pattern. this split in the republican party is still with us today. >> there is a stylistic difference, too. the president thought he was making a bipartisan arrangement of the old style. >> and what did newt gingrich represent? he said we have lived with a minority mentality for 40 years.

we always cut deals with democrats. this deal epitomized what he thought was george h.w. bush's central weakness. he cut deals with democrats and republicans led by gingrich said those days have to end. we have to establish what they're for. >> we spent time talking about his presidency in terms of foreign affairs. domestically it was fascinating. the legislation he passed significant and signed with that congress. the americans with disabilities act. >> reauthorization of the civil rights act. one thing i want to make clear, bipartisan is not easy. we kid ourselves with this gauzy sense that bipartisanship naturally happens. it doesn't, first you have to prioritize it then work it. clean air act, john dingle led that committee. he populated the committee who

were opposed to the clean air act. the bush white house worked around them with henry waxman, in california democrat. we have clean air and cleaner water now because of this bipartisan achievement. it was not easy and it takes a certain amount of bravery to achieve it. that "newsweek" cover story questioning whether he was tough enough for the job. >> major, love hearing from you. >> cbs news coverage of president george herbert walker bush continues later today with a series of special reports, including a military ceremony and another in the afternoon. we will have much good monday morning, as we head through the day, cool and dry conditions with below average temperatures. mid 50s for many of us, 55 san francisco as well as san rafael

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this is a cbs news special report. president george herbert walker bush's casket is waiting to depart. he will arrive in southeast houston in just a few minutes. there will be a short service there before his family

and the plane depart. one of the former air force one planes will carry hymn and the family. they gathered to escort the 41st president to the airfield. chip reed is there at ellington field, good morning. good morning, nora, you see behind me the honor guard is ready for the ceremony to begin. you also see what we all know as air force one but only technically air force one when the current president is aboard if is the seam plain that just brought the president back from the g 20 conference. he authorized it so be used for special air mission 41. there will be a military honor guard that will very carefully

and of course with military precision move the casket from the hearse in the motorcade on to the plane. there will also be a 21 gun salute. president george w bush will be here on the tarmac along with serve other members of the president's family and of course sully, the dog that brought tears to so many people's eyes, he has been the president's service dog his barbara passed away earlier this year. we all saw sully lying vigil in front of the flag draped casket. and sully will join the family for the flight back to washington dc. he will lie enstate at the capital, and then he will fly

back to houston on wednesday and a train will take him from houston to college station, to texas a&m university, and the president george h.w. bush presidential library where there will be a private burial service on wednesday. >> chip reid there at ellington field. you see hundreds of friends and family and local officials have gathered there for a send off to the 41st president of the united states. we're told they're elected officials from the city, county, county commissioner, and also people from the points of light foundation. the second baptist church there. just people that wanted to be there. the military honor guard there as well. members from every service. president bush of course served in the navy in world war ii and

this is the last president of the greatest generation. i noted that the u.s. navy tweeted when the president passed fair winds and folly sea, sir, we have the watch. it is a windy day there at the airfield. he will be met there by his son, president george w. bush and laura bush who will also greet the other members of the family. this ceremony, everything that you see there from ellington field, to when he lies enstate, all being organized by michael howard. this whole ceremony that we're going to watch is the cull min

nation -- first class tribute. this is not just saying goodbye to a man, but an ideal that he represented. >> we know what inaugurations look like. the state of the unions, in politics what these moments look like. these are fresh and they are also reupping basic american values that he stood for. service, duty, honor, and that is not just wrapped up in a presidency. we know about the family, the way george herbert walker bush was raised. those are wrapped into the family themselves. it is a national story and a personal family story that contains all of the things being celebrated and honored by those honor guard at attention flags .

>> it is a moment of institutional appreciation as well. the presidency itself and there are times in american history when we look back at a presidency differently than we did when the presidency ended. george bush ended with a spectacular defeat in 1992. he won 462 in 1988, he won 168 just four years later. his political future looked so much brighter midterm of the first term of his presidency and what he ended up seemed almost inconceivable. and we have looked back unappreciatively at this presidency as a policy that stands the test of time.

when you say wait a minute, what happened and what endures. these moments come out. >> and they come out in the feet of the people that have walked to the edge of the sar mack that watch this happen. to the man, to the of eaten, and there you see them standing waiting and watching for this to unfold because of the connection they have to their country. and just fiphysically walking a wanting to be there to witness this. >> and we have talked about how houston loved the bush family. my last job was at the houston post and i was there for two years and i covered his election night celebration in 1988. it was the first time i would be part of the national political press corp. there was something interesting

about it, politics can be hooak and they kept trying to drum up the crowd of calling out george! bush! he had many strengths, but he was not a political show man at any level. he didn't do the whole "it's a presentation" part of politics. he did the quieter and harder work of politics that defined his presidency. but when rhetoric or showmanship were called upon he didn't really have it, but that didn't mean that his community didn't love him or there wasn't something deeper of his appreciati appreciation, he just wasn't good at the hoaky parts. >> tremendous access. >> he had an anecdote about how

bush, his nickname was the ha havehalf. he would take a cookie or a candy bar and he would always give half to another kid. i think the president's actions and many years make that story so believable about being concerned about the other. that was forged, i think, by his initial military service. >> when you say the greatest generation. part of that greatest generation is not just world war two, but the defense before that and scarcity and we're not certain what the future will hold economically or geo politically. that have half is like take care of the person next to me. >> we see the motorkcade to the

ceremony. it will be about a 3.5 hour flight back to joint base in dc. >> and as the bush family arrives and will be greeted there by former president george w bush, we should note when they reach washington, after a brief ceremony, the 41st president will lie instate and so anyone can go, wait in line, and see the president. it started with president lincoln, and it has continued on

for former presidents and other people like john mccain. >> i remember when ronald reagan passed away. i took my children and we stood in line, i didn't cut the line, it was 3.5 hours and it is a touchstone moment. you walk in the rotundra, it is silent, you make a pass around and you walk back outside and you feel as an american citizen that you touched something that is unique, enduring, and beautiful about our country. >> we see the cars here, this is the way when they're -- when you're president, the motorcades arrive like this on the tarmac, and the echos that must be going through for the bush family as they have been part of these processions on to that famous plane as part of his service and

their son's service. >> every detail of this ceremony planned perfectly for the former commander in chief. and we will hear from them shortly. also the army band and a fuel departure ceremony as well. >> it is worth noting this is a political die nas tiynasty but . and yet it is not like camelot, like a huge radiating family dynas dynasty. but it is. quiet, part of the country for decades, they link arms. tight, loving, and very careful about all details and the best presentation possible of this moment and this legacy at the top right now of this family's

legacy throughout the country. and air force one, that just came from argentina and back to houston to make this journey, that is the hearse carrying the 41st president of the united states. the family will be escorted from the motorcade to a position near the hearse by major general howard. he is the major that i mentioned earlier that is in charge of this entire state funeral. and pacing out everything we will see in the next couple days with military precision. we're about to see as well is a full honors, that includes full ruffles and flourishes, "hail to

the chief" and a 21 gun salute, and we will stop talking when that happens because we all want to witness that. we will also be speakihearim george w. bush, laura bush, and jenna bush will all speak. also three friends of the former president, allen simpson from wyoming. he has lots of good stories, he always does. mr. bush's biographer, john mechum, a beautiful writer and speaker, and former canadian prime minister brian maroney. that will happen at the national

cathedral where we saw tributes to senator john mccain. and we see now the hearse pulling up to what is called special air mission 41. and it looks like it is a very windy day in houston. the honors will be rendered shortly for our former commander in chief. he enlisted when he was just 18 years old becoming one of the youngest, if not the youngest, navy pilot to fly during world

war ii. flying 58 combat missions and only dieing in one. he thought about that his whole life, the two crew members that were lost during world war two.

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family lead by former president george w. bush and laura bush leading the family on to special air mission 41 after his father's casket was placed on the plane. and this really begins a several day tribute to the former demander and chief and his more than 70 years of service to our country. >> and you see he is waving from the top of the stairs just as he would have so many times, think of the resonance on this. board the plane that his father's casket is on. the echos throughout this motion. this speaks to the dynasty of the gush family and hue unique

this is. the son following in the foot spe steps of his father it is as poignant, and as you mentioned, resonant as anything you see in modern day american politics. >> and the testament to the size of the bush family. it is a long line of those joining on to the plane. >> in president hw gooshbush's family. he was on the phone and the last words spoken were "i love you." >> as anyone that has ever been

through this, you want some for the bane of the loved one. everyone hopes it is a constant refrain and urining and experience. the country can take a measure in peace in that precisely as you might want it to happen. >> i asked george w bush what is the most important thing your father taught you? and he said uncondition love. for those o two men that have occupied that oval office, and the challenges, we are watching the departure ceremony in houst houston, texas at ellington field. his family there, a military honor guard, sent him off with full ruffles and flourishes,

"hail to the chief," and a 21 gun is a salute. >> the casket will join from here to joint pace and rues, and then it will be driven to the capital and when it arrives there at the capital there will be an arrival ceremony. and then a service at the rotunda. and the casket will lie in state and anyone can go pay their respects. >> and at the capital rotunda will be james baker and dan quail, and former members of president bush's cabinet, there to greet him as he arrives at the u.s. capital.

i was reminded that he ran and lost 20twice and then was elect to congress. he lost in politics many times, >> persevered. had many disappointments. times he got awkward consolation prizes at times. that shows you his dimension of per see veeshes, about not only public service but his own ambition. they sometimes go together. it's all right to say it out loud. you can be a public servant and be ambitious at the same time. and he was. and he achieved the presidency in part because of that perseverance and that unwillingness to give in or give up after setbacks. >> and it was connected, that loss, that ability to come back after setbacks, to his other quality, which is forgiving those who he had competed with, including ronald reagan, who beat him in 1980 in the primaries and then he went on to be his vice president. >> succeeded him at that