i think when you look at george w. bush, he is somebody who like i said, from my perspective, he makes very quick judgments about people. and they are often what i would consider to be fairly emotive impressions. he's very interested in important people well up. one the things he talked about a lot in the book is how many different individuals he saw get tears in their eyes. that's an important characteristic for him. >> julian zellier -- zelizer is author of many books. most recent edited by him. the subtitle here is "first historical assessment." dr. zelizer, when we will start seeing books that have subtitles that say reassessment? >> that will happen. i think the caller mentioned two presidencies, eisenhower and reagan that had pretty big reassessments. both were seen as presidents who were light hearted, not serious, presidents driven and controlled by their advisors, rather than very dominant figures. we learned that was wrong. and i think what happened in both cases, and in those cases, archives really mattered. as w

you state that obama is just a continuation of george bush obama. representing capitalism being just a continuation of george bush isn't understood. you have a system which was built of the slave of african people to reverse the birth of this economy it gave birth to not only what's happening here domestically but around the world which is what we call today including george bush was only a cogged in the ending you have. hussein obama as also a cogged meaning a small part of the machinery that works the system the same old kind of a rule that happen across the country is still happening in the same or way but represented by a face more familiar face that is usually associated with the or pressed and poor people so it is important to maintain the kind of programs in campaigns that continuation of even more spending on war was what obama's doing then what bush has done in his previous presidency in his tenure we have more. empty promises to the poor oppressed people especially the mexican people who along the borders are being hunted down brutally lik

george w. bush, what do you think would be the shortcoming is mentioned, what was achieve? >> well, i'm 78 years old. i've lived a third of our country's history, and almost every republican president was considered not very swift. dwight eisenhower play too much golf they say. he had a poor syntax. my goodness, gerald ford they said play too much football without a helmet. [laughter] didn't matter that he going to yale law school. did matthews one of the world's leading experts on u.s. budget having served on the appropriations committee. >> not to mention the best athlete at the white house. >> exactly. they contend he was a stumbling him. you go from one to another. ronald reagan. he has been characterized as an amiable dunce here and then people read his letters and saw that this man was thoughtful, knowledgeable, and while not a micromanager, a strategic leader. and a superb and highly successful strategic leader. george w. bush was described as not curious, not knowledgeable, and he had gone t

and the boldness of what george w. bush did galvanize the situation. >> and made it more successful. >> they deserve a lot of credit. >> how much should they be judged by success? if lyndon johnson the vietnam war and did? would we look added great war leader? haq who heads ecap taka. >> guest: it seems to me that wars are a series of catastrophe ended by success or victory. they're untidy, difficult, hard, the enemy has a brain and eisenhower said the plan is worth less. planning is everything and the plan is worthless. >> host: that is rumsfeld roles, it is a rule that i quote from someone who is more intelligent than i am. >> but it is true. every time you try to do something every offense has a defense and a defense has an offense. i think we are unlikely for a period of time to end up with a clarity of world war ii because of the nature of the world we are living in. it is asymmetric, and ever-changing and it is a challenge for our leadership and challenge for our country. with a growing finality of the weapons, what b

president george w. bush has put off a visit to switzerland signing security concerns but human rights groups say they've prepared a criminal case against him on challenges on the rising tour and that he's simply scared of arrest for more on this as cross live now to london speak to german national. many thanks for being with us here on our say so what exactly is the case against george w. bush. it's difficult to know where to start my understanding is the center of a complete constitutional rights has a two and a half thousand page document they're releasing in the next twenty four hours in geneva but it's difficult to know where to start with george w. bush because it's an entire car drew of people it's dick cheney it's called rumsfeld is dick cheney's chief of staff we don't have rumsfeld's memoirs this is about illegal wars and so on but this case i think centers around two individuals in particular one of whom i've met a cameraman for a qatari satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in guantanamo for

and i think that george h.w. bush would have done a far better job over the next four years than bill clinton did. >> host: conservative crack-up written and published, or published in 1992. here is a quote from it. what caused the conservative crack-up was not an overactive political gland, but the conservatives' deep disrelish for politics. by the late 1980s, many conservatives simply ditched politics and went hope. -- home. >> guest: yeah, that's what happened. i mean, and i, frankly, i think that they should have tried to prevail on george bush to keep taxes down. or they should have in the next administration prevailed on him to, to change his tax policy. but i don't think that, i don't think that bill clinton was good for the country. i think it was, indeed, a holiday from history. >> host: if people go back and read "the liberal crack-up" written in 1984 and "the conservative crack-up" in 1992, are they going to get something out of it still? >> guest: it's wonderfully instructive, i think. i think i hit on som

george bush. john major the former prime minister of thailand these guys are there and now we know they've invested in a fake forest in china they've also invested in another fake company in china so are they going to collateral going to put these assets in this s.t.r. reminds me of all we saw in ireland at the i.m.f. is bankrupt they use the assets of ireland the energy and the cash in the bank twenty billion dollars as collateral to get a loan on the wholesale market to do a leverage buyout of ireland and the people there are saying yes we need the bell out but all they did was give their sovereignty away to a bankrupt institution the i.m.f. ok so the other thing that's supposed to give more value to this s.t.r. is the involvement of the u.s. and china and it now let's look at this little clip from jim chain of major hedge fund manager and what he has to say about what his numbers show about china there's a big misconception there the chinese government can do whatever it wants and refer to the

of that, you know, there were three cards laying on the table, one with a picture of president george bush, president barack obama, president george washington. and before she was asked a question, she picked up the card and said -- held it up and said george bush. so, you know, she's a hard worker and she's trying and she's speaking a lot and at some level they're even asking her to slow down a little bit. >> that's been an extraordinary recovery. all the brain experts, brain injury experts say that no two are alike. they have been compared to snowflakes in their uniqueness. there was no road map for you to follow regarding her recovery. and i guess this is just going to be the pace of her recovery? >> that is true. i was on the phone with gabrielle's neurosurgeon, dr. don kim, and he reiterated to me that she is on this lightning fast trajectory, so he's incredibly optimistic about the slope of the curve has a lot to do with how far you're going to get, and she's proceeding very rapidly. >> and i keep hearing, captain, that the congresswoman, your wife's appearance, is resuming to normal

>> the best one and have as former president george bush. i broke my leg. i got the presidential penn. [inaudible] >> good to meet you. you are a state representative? nice to meet you. >> [inaudible] [inaudible] >> she is a commander in the navy. [inaudible] >> how are you? >> how are you? nice to meet you. pleasure to meet you. thank you. i am honored. you might see me more. thank you. whenever you are ready. >> that is the nature of the beast. >> thank you. our friends at cnn are going to listen in as well. thank you for taking a few minutes with us. >> it is my pleasure. good to see you again. always a pleasure. >> we seem to keep running into you at a number of different places. i know that there is a youtube of you up speaking at cpac. it got very good reviews. what do you think of the spirit there as opposed to other years? >> higher. i believe conservatives in this country and the people at cpac exemplifying the growing citizens' movement. i went last year and the energy was sky-high. some people were wondering whether or not this year it was going

a lot again george w. bush of course and his freedom agenda and everyone now is debating whether he was right or whether he was wrong what's your take on well george w. bush did not invent the freedom agenda in fact george w. bush the reformers in these countries many of them went underground after the iraq war started they became associated with democracy and democracy for a time was a bad word in the arab world it should never be a bad word we should be proud of democracy but the reformers were afraid and there were instances as well where they would come out into the streets in particular in cairo in two thousand and five. and the bush administration turned its back to the many democracy activists got sent to prison so while the vision yes democracy nearby world they did talk about they did not create it and certainly when it came to implementation there's nothing on the record that looks like what just happened today do you think that what did happen today also kind of proves that we don't necessarily need

blames george bush he also blames collin powell condoleezza rice for a lot of the mistakes it's a very self-serving book which proclaims him to have known everything and to. condemn other people and i think this is something that other republicans even john mccain are not very happy about what i was hoping for in the book was at least some knowledge meant that he had made mistakes but the only thing he seems to acknowledged is the idea that he should have resigned after the abu ghraib scandal reality in fact he did resign twice and bush didn't accept it but i think for the five thousand or so of american soldiers that died there and the hundreds of thousands of iraqis that died in addition to the people who were tortured in abu ghraib the least he could have expected was an apology but that is not and has not been forthcoming from run instead his book logs himself and suggests in fact that he should have gone to war sooner he in fact suggested he should have. been collin powell was making a speech and so it suggested nothing has been learnt you know from the lessons of the last few yea

a couple weeks ago we did a program with george w. bush sitting in that chair. laura bush is on your report? >> -- laura bush is on your board? >> ray hunt is a famous texas named. who does sarah were lake? >> she is an alumni. she is married to ross perot, jr.. sarah is an alumnus so we are very pleased to have them a part of the family. >> how big is your board? >> it is 42. they had a number of official members. they had a voting student that boats for everyone else. we have three bishops of the united methodist church on the board. it turns over every four years. there is a term limit of three- year terms. there can be exceptions but -- 42 is a good size. it obviously has to govern the university andy encourage others to be a part of it. >> go back to the first moment he thought about trying to get george bush to bring his library here on this campus? >> the first time i set it at -- -action when he said we were running. we did not do anything until after the florida vote. after that vote i walked in to my director of executive affairs and said what do you k

personas con la medalla de la libertad el máximo honor civil, y estuvo la canciller alemana merkel, george bushiene los detalles. >>>periodista: al darle la medalla a silvia méndez dijo que era un reconocimiento su lucha por los derechos civiles que comenzó cuando tenía 8 años. >>> estoy tan agradecida de este gran honor de este día, porque siento que mi papá y mi mamá que pelearon con todos los latinos están aquí. >>> cuando entrevistamos a silvia y sus hermanos me dijeron que no olvidan el 1943 cuando se le prohibió la entrada a la escuela que sus padres querían para ellos y dijeron que eran para los blancos. >>> creían que éramos tontos y cochinos. >>> y fue inaceptable para la familia de silvia que llevó su caso a la corte. y su victoria legal puso fin a la segregación a las escuelas de california y ayudó a abrir las puertas a los chicos de todas las minorías. >>> los latinos ni siquiera acaban la secundaria. >>> y después de ser protagonista en la lucha por los derechos civiles, silvia va a las escuelas para hablar del valor de una buena educación. >>> me siento orgullosa de lo que hiciero

internet a fin destruir represas, plantas nucleares y como mencionaste, la casa del ex presidente george bushera atacar varios objetivos en estados unidos. entre sus blancos la casa de bush a la que se referÍa, la casa del tirano, represas en california y colorado y un centro nocturno en dallas. dentro de su apartamento encontraron equipos de laboratorio, claves, relojes y Ácidos. >> es el clÁsico terrorista solitario, de hecho, Él es potencialmente el tipo mÁs aterrador, dice este asesor del fbi. >> la declaraciÓn jurada en la corte federal de texas muestra cÓmo solicitó a travÉs de internet productos quÍmicos que al mezclarse se convierten en poderosos explosivos.

and one more note about george w. bush's canceled an appearance in denver tomorrow because wikileaks founder julian assange was invited to speak by video link to the same gathering the global leadership summit. the former president said he would not take part in the same forum as someone who, "has done great harm to the u.s." and still ahead, production on a tv comedy stops by a radio drama. dio drama. 3q ( woman ) even with an overactive bladder, i don't always let the worry my pipes might leak compromise what i like to do.q i take care with vesicare, because i have better places to visit than just the bathroom. ( announcer ) once-daily vesicare can help control your bladder muscle, and is proven to treat overactive bladder with symptoms of frequent urges and leaks, day and night. if you have certain stomach or glaucoma problems, or trouble emptying your bladder, do not take vesicare. vesicare may cause allergic reactions that may be serious. if you experience swelling of the face, lips, throat or tongue, stop taking vesi

host: our first call for jim, executive director of the george w. bush institute comes from san diego, california. caller: good morning, c-span. and good morning, george. i wanted to say that i'm a bit tired of our government trying to purchase democracy around the world. i don't believe you can buy it. i believe it has to be something that is won by the people of the country who desire democracy just as our forefathers did. and i think we've wasted a tremendous amount of blood and treasure. and god rest every armed services member who might have perished in this endeavor. but i think we are throwing good money after bad money when we should be watching out for ourds at home. so what i would like to propose is this. let's cut the state department budget back and let's concentrate on what we've got to do here at home and quit trying to influence the world by winning the hearts and minds of people of different countries with billions of dollars and gallons of blood. host: john in san diego, california. caller: well, we live in a world, unfortunately, or fo

george h.w. bush was said to have believed it was rumsfeld who pushed him out of a shot at a national campaign and into the cia. what was your estimation of george h.w. bush. >> i never worked for him. >> reporter: admire him enormously. >> no, no, no, i was kind of disappointed in him. he decided he wanted to leave people with the impression he didn't want to go to the cia and that someone made him go there and it was probably rumsfeld or something. i didn't find that impressive. >> reporter: so his son calls you in. >> i was amazed. i was amazed. and it shows a lot about george w. bush that he's his own man. >> reporter: just mine months into the bush administration suddenly rumsfeld's office seemed to shake. a plane had hit the pentagon. he raced toward the smoke. >> i came around that corner down there. >> reporter: right. >> and it was -- it was just in flame, in smoke. >> reporter: you could see him helping carry the stretchers of some of the wounded. >> this was the first war of the 21st centur

entering the border and i think that's a valid area of concern and frankly there is a problem with george bush and president bush had some issues relating to two issues where he did signing notices of how he would implement laws so no one is perfect here but the timing of all these things at once is troubling and yes it appears that the current executive branch leadership is willing to go against the other branches of the co-equal branches of government because of their own objectives thank you so much for being here is definitely a very interesting story and you wonder who else is being manipulated out there now so to come on tonight's show americans and other state claims that they're protecting their citizens from creeping shari'a law. time and the rallies and stand up night in wisconsin for a plan to end collective bargaining rights for public unions. in their reports the family's personal story and how the cuts one of them. this is also see the headline. u.k. court ruled the founder of the whistle blowing web site we can make should be extradited to sweden to face thanks crimes education

caller: they tried to give some credit to george bush and ronald reagan. regardless of what happened in egypt, it has nothing to do with ronald reagan or george bush. remember, we invaded iraq because they were alleged by george bush to have had weapons of mass destruction. they were also alleged to be cooperating with al qaeda. of those were incorrect. when we found out they did not have weapons, we have inspectors over there, the united nations had inspectors telling us they were not finding weapons of mass destruction before the war started. but once it was clearly determined that they did not have weapons of mass destruction in that they were not cooperating with al qaeda, then george bush started saying that we would bring freedom to those people. we ended up slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people in iraq and that is not what is happening in egypt. the people of the tooth grows up and decided they wanted to be free. the same thing that is happening in this country, too much is being taken from the poor and middle-class and passed up to the rich,

i think george w. bushadministration comes in for more criticism i think in my book, but both administrations did not respond to the uss cole. mike sheehan who was ambassador for counterterrorism famously said after the cole attack what's it going to take, al qaeda attacking the pentagon before we respond. at the lame-duck clinton administration didn't respond, and the new bush administration didn't respond part because it didn't happen on their watch. and osama bin laden, some and took lessons from the. when they were preparing the 9/11 attacks, one of the things i try to say in the book is 9/11 was a strategic failure for al qaeda. at the time it seemed like a big success. it didn't achieve any of the goals within the organization, but one of the things al qaeda has said many years later is 9/11 was cleverly conceived to get you and i says to invade afghanistan, we believed them to what they really expected was the united states to pull out of the middle east, you know, the saudi regime and the regime in

. -- george w. bush presidential library, scheduled to open in 2013. >> dr. gerald turner, president of southern methodist university. is it true you have a slogan, "the truth shall set you free. that is the motto. >> what's it mean to you? >> i think it means, if the truth shall set you free, the basic goal of the institution is to try to find truth, whether if our reserge effort, teaching, human experiences or whatever. >> what's the best part of a president and the toughest part of being a president? >> the toughest part of being a president, i say -- when people ask what's your job description, i say it's the coordination of incompatible forces. that's the case. if you're in business, you've got one basic goal, to increase shareholder value and make it quarter-to-quorter and so on. you can be focused about it. whereas here we have so many goals. the truth shall set you free, you've got to sponsor research, recrutement of the best students you can get who can come in and learn what we do know, past and present, and hopefully pointing toward the future. you

the university will be the site of the george w. bushresidential library scheduled to open in 2013. r. gerald turner has been president of southern methodist. >> is it true that you have a saying that the truth will set you free? >> that is the model. >> what does it mean today to you? >> i think it means that the truth will set you free, that means that the basic goal of the institution is to try to find true whether that is in our research efforts, teaching, or that human experiences. ultimately, the goal is to find what is really there. >> what is the toughest part of the new president today and what is the best part? >> the toughest part -- i tell people what my job description is, it is the coordination of incompatible forces. truthfully, that is pretty much the case. if you are in business, you have one basic goal and that is to increase your value and make a quarter to quarter and so on. you can be brief about it. here, we have so many goals. the truth shall check your free. -- the truth shall set you free. you have people who can

y lo acusaron de realizar un atentado contra la vivienda de george bush.im que cas como parte de un plan de ocultar material explosivo dentro de muñeca a fin de destruir represas y plantas nuclear nucleares. >> tenemos la segunda parte de la entrevista a janet nnapolitno y la pregunta central es si al qaeda está ligado con carteles de la droga en méxico esto es lo que le dijo a lourdes del río. >> la secretaria de seguridad nacional. dijo que le preocupa la posibilidad que un grupo como al qaeda podría crear una peligrosa alianza por ejemplo con el cartel de los zetas en méxico. >> una de mis funciones es siempre pensar con antelación, hacer las preguntas del tipo ¿qué si al qaeda o una de sus afiliadas hicieron un arreglo formal con uno de los carteles en méxico para mover el dinero para mover el contrabando en el peor de los casos para mover auténticos terroristas hacia méxico y por nuestra frontera? así que siempre me estoy haciendo las preguntas y desde luego ambos países estados unidos y méxico quieren evitar que eso ocurra y no voy a sfek lugar sobre

president george w. bush. he outlined what he thought ought to happen, how the department of defense could be brought into the 21st century, and any changes that are made tend to be made over the objection of the congress, the defense contractors, and the permanent bureaucracy. they are comfortable with the way it is. they concluded that is the way it ought to be, and a president comes into office with different views, there tends to be natural opposition to it. for example, the crusader program. i cannot think of a worse name in this environment, but it was an enormous artillery piece that took two aircraft to move anywhere in the world. certainly not something that was appropriate for the 21st century and the asymmetric warfare we are facing. the opposition to it was just incredible. the retired community in the army, the active duty community in the army, civilian contractors, congress -- i will give you an example as a data point. when i was secretary of defense in the 1970's, the defense authorization bi

president george w. bush canceled a visit to switzerland citing security concerns but human rights groups say they've prepared a criminal case against him on charges of authorizing torture and that he's afraid of arrest journalists believes it's unlikely but he will be held to account by an international court. my understanding is the center can constitutionally writes has a two and a half thousand page document they're releasing in the next twenty four hours in geneva but it's difficult to know where to start with george w. bush because it into a car drew of people it's dick cheney it's called rumsfeld is dick cheney's chief of staff we now have rumsfeld's memoirs this is about illegal wars and so on but this case i think centers around two individuals in particular one of whom i've met a camera man for a qatari satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in guantanamo for years and we mustn't forget forty eight year old died a few days ago after being going to him for nine years also without charge of cours