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and his wife to the white house, another tradition president trump declined. the unveiling of the presidential portrait of his predecessor, barack obama. mo raqqah reports. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> all my life i heard when the president comes in, they play "hail to the chief" and there it was. president and mrs. bush senior were there. we sat right behind the obamas. he was very gracious to us. when someone would say something about the painting, he would turn and nod to me like that. >> reporter: perhaps you've heard of the ex-president's club. well, on may 31st, 2012, john howard sandham became a member of another group that's almost as exclusive. the artist who have painted those presidents. that moment, when the paintings were unveiled, i mean, what were you feeling?

>> well, you were scared, because everybody in the audience is sit thing bracing. how awful is this going to be, you know? >> once everyone started applauding -- >> you feel a gigantic feeling of relief. and i had being doing portraits at that point for 40 years. in my profession, that's the highest honor. there's nothing above that. >> but you thought it's not going to happen. >> yeah, i assumed that. and then he called. >> this is the one that ended up hanging in the white house, i think it would have been quite nice. >> i'm not the least bit ashamed of it. >> it took him 13 months and 8 tries before his portrait of president george bush became one of 42 official port rates in the white house collection. >> i'm pleased that my portrait brings an interesting symmetry to the white house collection.

it now starts and ends with a george w. >> reporter: painted over a period of more than 220 years, some of these portraits evoke napoleonic grandeur, others everyday approachability. this portrait of teddy roosevelt looks you confidently in the eye. harry truman projects mid western humility. while the mournful john f. kennedy casts his gaze downward. >> this is the great portrait of george washington. >> reporter: in 2014, bill almond showed me the first picture of a president to hang in these hallowed halls. gilbert stewart's iconic 1797 portrait of george washington. hanging in the east room, it's played background during some of the most memorable moments in modern american history. but this treasure was almost lost.

during the war of 1812, dolley madison and an enslaved man named paul jennings, managed to take the 8 x 5 foot portrait with them as they fled the white house, shortly before it was burned by british troops. >> this thing is really big. it's not like you could just go, and run out with it. >> that hangs on a wire and you could pick it up if you had enough strength. but it was bolted to the walls, so they had to chop it out. >> reporter: the painting would return to the rebuilt white house after the war. but it was decades before anyone would think to hang another presidential portrait. >> it was considered a home. >> reporter: once again, bill almond. >> and it really wasn't treated quite as a place to revere the people who had come in the job before you. by 1857, when they decided to commission portraits of some of the missing presidents, sensibilities had changed a

little bit that the white house had become something of a public attraction and historic site. >> the most famous of all, this one of abraham lincoln. >> reporter: this portrait of lincoln, which hangs above the mantle in the state dining room. >> healey was a contemporary of lincoln, but only saw him once. so he painted this picture from photographs. >> reporter: in 1962, first lady jacqueline kennedy highlighted that portrait during her televised tour of the white house. >> the press got a preview today of the formal portraits of the president and mrs. kennedy. >> reporter: nine years later, president and mrs. nixon hosted her for the unveiling of the portraits of herself and her late husband. it was the only time she returned to the white house after his asas face. >> it was startling. >> reporter: those pour rartrai

were controversial when they first arrived. >> it does not show his eyes. said one of his best friends, it's just not jack. >> reporter: but now are among the most popular in the entire collection. over the last three decades, the public unveiling of an official presidential portrait has become something of an event in washington. >> the announcer said, mr. president, i fell back to where i comfortably was for eight years. >> reporter: the former occupant invited back for a light hearted, often bipartisan affair. >> perhaps the most important thing i can say to president and mrs. bush today is, welcome home. >> reporter: though clinton hosted george h.w. bush just two years after defeating him. >> president clinton and senator clinton, welcome home. >> reporter: george w. bush did the same, welcoming the clintons back when their portraits, were

added to the white house collection in 2004. eight years later -- >> we may have our differences politically, but the presidency transcends those differences. >> reporter: it was george w. bush's turn to come home. >> dolley madison famously said this portrait of the first george w. now michelle, if anything happens, there's your man. >> reporter: but the future of this tradition is in doubt. an unveiling ceremony for the obama's official portraits at the trump white house has yet to be scheduled. >> i sit here -- >> reporter: as for john howard sandham, he's still painting presidents and says even in the age of the digital camera, a great portrait captures something that an iphone never will. >> everybody, every human being,

develops an image of himself, a self-image. and it's not necessarily what people in your household see every day. it's something other than that. the portrait painter's goal, the ultimate goal is to discern what the self-image is. >> mo raqqah reporting. now from presidential portraits to hollywood auctions. here's ian lee. >> reporter: they're as iconic as the movies they were featured in, the special items that define a character. >> tom cruise's "top gun" maverick's jacket from "top gun." >> reporter: they are auctioning off the jacket, along with more than 900 items from over 350 movies and tv shows. everything from tom hanks' helmet in "saving president ryan" to this fedora in

"batman." >> you can see on the inside rim of the hat white makeup residue. >> reporter: julia roberts strutted into stardom in these boots. and then this traeeasure chest memorabilia. >> you don't get away this time. >> the light saber from "star wars" revenge of the sif. this has an estimate of $100,000 to $150,000. >> reporter: if you don't have a millionaire's budget, there are items for the rest of us. >> things like this poster that is standing here behind me, which has been signed by daniel let cliff. and thats a an estimate of $400 to $600. >> reporter: and one particular prop is unique for a different reason. >> the bowling ball from "uncle buck." that's john candy's bowling

ball. so little has survived from his movies. >> reporter: online bidding is under way.

soccer fans around the world are mourning the death of perhaps the greatest player ever. diego maradona. mark phillips looks back on his life and legacy. >> reporter: it's hard to think of an american equivalent for diego maradona. think ruth and dimaggio and jordan, all rolled into one. then wrap them in the flag and double it. maybe triple it. maybe use all the flags in the world. >> maradona just gets away. >> reporter: this was maradona putting the dagger into the heart of england, scoring his second goal against them during the 1986 world cup. that game summed up the contradictions of his life. this goal was a thing of pure sporting beauty. this goal, his earlier one, was

a think of sporting infamy. it clearly went in off his hand. the hand of god, he later called it. comic some called it cheating. in an hbo documentary, he called it cunning. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: revenge against the english for having humiliated argentina four years earlier during the falkland island's war. maradona wasn't just a sporting hero, he restored the pride of the nation. memories of the goal may have endured more than memories of the conflict. maradona's life was one of a shakespearean tragic hero. small kid with unbelievable talent, emerges from the slums to become the superstar in the

world's most popular sport. blessed with gifts, burdened with weaknesses. he follows the big money to europe. first with barcelona. then with naples, where he became the embodiment of the city, turling a failing team from a down and out town into champions. he also, along the way, developed a too close relationship with the mafia, which ran naples at the time. and with the drugs they trafficked in. he was a cocaine addict for decades. addiction and excess, not dribbles and goals, became the hallmarks of hiser life. they call socker the beautiful game. and the world will now argue whether maradona was its most beautiful ever player. his was not a happy ending. but the story of his life transfixed more than sports fans the world over. i'm mark phillips in london. >> and that's the "overnight

news for this friday. reporting from washington, i'm catherine herridge. it's friday, november 27th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." ready, set, shop. today is black friday. and while many are heading out to stores, online shopping could see a major boom thanks to the pandemic. superspreader concerns. while many stayed home this thanksgiving, we still saw some of the busiest travel days since the pandemic started. how the coronavirus made the holiday look different this year. not ready to concede. president trump answers questions from reporters for the first time since the election. but again refuses to accept the results. what he said about if he'll leave office come january. good morning. i'm tom hanson in for anne-marie green. black s