bush and reagan were rivals. >> bush and reagan slugged it out.reagan got the nomination. >> as the man who finished second he seemed in line for the second slot on the ticket. seemed for a time it might not happen. >> everything in the press was saying ford would be the pick. he called me up and said george, i want you to be my vice president. >> there was a little tentativeness at the beginning on the part of governor reagan. they were initially very cool and distant and he was suspicious of him. the great break through in their view of him was on the way that mr. reagan was shot. george bush wouldn't land the helicopter as he was coming back from texas on the south lawn of the white house because as he put it only the president lands on the south lawn. george bush would not advance himself at the expense of the wounded president. >> george bush was as loyal and as sensitive to president reagan as he could possibly be. >> when george bush was vice president, he did for president reagan most of the protocol trips. he would go to funerals. he got

than george bush. >> president bush -- he's probably the most complete person i have ever met. >> if you look at his history... he was a member of congress. >> he is smart. he's humble. >> he was chairman of his party. he was ambassador to the u.n. >> he is funny. he is spontaneous. >> he was second representative to china before we had an embassy. then he came back and he was director of central intelligence. >> i remember when we first started to campaign for president in 1979, george had this speech that he would give about the obligations and the promises and the rewards of public service. he would go out and say, my father inculcated into me, a sense of public service. i finally said, hey, george, don't say "incull theicated." people don't understand what that means. the average voter isn't gonna get it. >> as vice-president for 8 years and then as president of the united states, george bush's mission was to make sure everyone got it. >> my friends, we have work to do [applause] >> there are the homeless. lost and roaming. today, more than ever, we need community service. everyo

and bush got the nomination. >> bush seemed in line for the second spot on the ticket.was going to be the pick. he called me up and said george i want you to be my vice president. >> and so there was a little tentativeness on the part of governor reagan. they were initially cool and disstant -- distant and suspicious of him. george bush won't land a helicopter coming back from texas on the south lawn of the white house because only the president lands on the south lawn. george bush would not advance himself on the expense of the president he was as loyal to president reagan as he could be. >> george bush was vice president he did for president reagan most of the protocol. he got to know the royal leaders intimately before he became president. >> at a funeral in 1985 bush first met gorbachov. >> he is very different than any of the soviets i have known. >> he used television ads to sharpen his image. >> there was a great sense of humor saying how are you going to help be president? you're already vice president. >> living in ronald reagan's shadow for eight years had dra

bush. her name was abigail smith adams. and she was the first woman to have been married to a president and was the father of a president. i mean the mother of a president. [ laughter ] thank you anita. it was actually the secret service that whispered first. on february 12th, interestingly, 11/11 and 2/12, are pretty significant days in american history. on february 12th, 1775, there was another woman born, but she was born in london. and she was the daughter-in-law to a president. and the wife of a president. the two women that we will hear from tonight are even more unique than those two individuals. because one is not only the mother of a president and the wife of a president, she also got to witness both of them taking an oath of office to be president. the other woman is the daughter-in-law of a president and the wife of a president. and she got to witness both of them taking the oath of office to be president. these two women are pretty remarkable. barbara pierce bush has had a long

first ladies barbara bush and laura bush, we are grateful you are participating in tonight's events and president bush, we are grateful you are here with us also. [ applause ] in addition to our audience here, we are being joined by an audience over the internet, this program is being live streamed so howdy to you all. i would like to thank our conference chair, anita mcbride, we could not do this without you, this began when the presidential library directors attended a conference this past spring at united university which was chaired by anita, we decided we should do it here in texas at the texas presidential libraries. and so, we began here today and we will continue with programming at the george w. bush library in march of 2012 and conclude with the program at the lbj library in november of 2012. programs like this can't be done without support. and therefore i am very grateful to our program sponsors, texas a&m university. whoop! american university of public affairs and american university libraries, the george bush foundation, always generous to the library. thank you to the fo

bush republicans and bush republicanism, even under george w. bush, somewhat in minimum high regard. so jeb bush is not exactly the spokesperson for that wing of the party when they hear him say that. they don't say there's something wrong with me. they are more inclined to say there's something wrong with jeb. >> there is a little bit of jeb was more the trusted conservative of the two. especially now. >> much more philosophic than w. >> it is fascinating how all of the most effective hits on santorum by romney at the debate the other night were for things santorum supported which were bush initiatives. >> exactly. >> as much bashing as the bush administration, republican years to -- >> the santorum record. >> why did you support no child left behind? why did you support the bailout? >> that was a w. thing. >> let's take a look. we've got to get to the map here. this is friday. you have your new nbc battleground map of which way states are leaning. for general election. the magic number to win the presidential election is 270 electoral votes. l

bush. i defy anybody to find it. i disagree with a lot of george bush's policies, starting with the war in iraq. >> so what is different? >> let me tell you. i know that george w. bush loves this country and i know he was trying to do what he thought was best for this country. i just think he went in the wrong direction. i don't touch on something very important. and that is politics -- and i talk about this last night. politics and pros, local bookstore here with a big crowd. in the early days of this country, if there had been talk shows in those days, yeah, george washington would have been reviled. politics was not pretty in the days of the founding fathers. probably the ugliest presidential election we ever had was 1800 between thomas jefferson and john adams. now they didn't do it so much as their supporters did. but after lincoln's assassination, particularly i think, things got to the point where okay, we disagree with their policies, but we don't attack them personally. we've come

but it went up 65% under president bush.resident strategy but percentage, no one called president bush the food stamp president. >> sean: do they get the talking points from the white house? explain the white house's line. they take the verbiage and take the phrases and that is what they say? >> i know that you know, let me tell you something, that soedad knows she was cooking the books. it's important to people understand there is agree to the people on the left is cooking the books. she compared three years of obama to eight years of george bush. >> sean: wait a minute. that is not fair. 80 years and four and a half years or eight years and four and a half years. >> under george bush, food stamps went up 8% and under obama 14%. george bush, it was 32% and today it's 48%. those are the facts. soledad wants to argue them, she can do it all day long but stop cooking the books. >> sean: all what they called left, george bush, he killed women and children in cold blood in iraq and afghanistan, killing civilians, all these thing

we had the first bush, the second bush. >> andrea: in fairness, president bush released comprehensivergy plans and tried to act on them. >> juan: we have more drilling now, thanks to president bush, by the way, than we've ever had in this country. i don't -- >> andrea: what are we thanking president obama for? >> kimberly: rising gas prices? take a trip down memory lane. i'm ticked off. listen to 2008, this is what he said. see where we are now. >> the gas line of the '70s. democrats and republicans talked about energy in the senate. and nothing has changed. exxon is making $40 billion a year and we're paying $3.50 for gas. i'm barack obama. i don't take money for oil companies or washington lobbyists and i won't let them block change anymore. >> brian: the thing is, when they talk about drilling, is it true? are we drilling more than ever before? we are. because of what you mentioned before. i was fascinated to find out leases on open federal land are down 44%. drilling for new wells down 37%. compared to 2007. we have a 50% decrease in monthly deep water permits. democrat is not pro

bush is he admits it and bush denied it.ook where he is today, look what he's accomplished in his lifetime, look at his policies as president and tell me where you disagree with him, rather than, which this guy just did, that's the book, go after him personally. they cannot help themselves. host: michael savage, radio talk show host, you quote him saying "president obama is more of a terrorist than hugo chavez." guest: what can i say? how can you stoop to that level? i think they lose all credibility at that point. when you say something so outrageous. tom cradle also said he thought barack obama was more dangerous than al qaeda. now, sure, there are crazies like our last caller who are going to believe that but i think most of the american people know that's just nonsense. host: there is a narrative. guest: i come back to, sure, sure, that's legitimate criticism of any president which i think is healthy and i welcome it and i've been part of it, right. but i don't know that anybody ever said, ronald reagan was a terrorist o

bush. i think that has to do with his son's performance in the second term. >> rose: does he think so, too? >> no comment. (laughter) >> as your advisor, i would say yes. >> rose: thank you, doris. my attorney in boston. (laughter) you may want to go back to the well? (laughter) >> but in the club... nancy gibbs and mike duffy are friends. they have a new book coming on the club, the president's club, about the former president and it is quite true when you have the great good fortune to talk to presidents how clear it is who's in the two-term tear of a club and who's in the one-term men's grill. and the other guys can go all the way to the dining room. (laughter) president carter and president bush can only have sandwiches. but i think... of course distance changes things. george w. bush explicitly counts on that. someone else that reads a lot of history. he says "i just read four books last year on george washington's presidency. i think people will be changing their view." michael taught

bush brought an agenda to fox news when hired in 1996. the author will speak at politics and pros book store in washington, d.c. and we'll have that live streaming on our website. booktv.org. here on c-span 3, rick santorum wraps up come paining in michigan ahead of the state's requirement tomorrow. he will be at the heritage christian academy at kalamazoo and you can watch live coverage >>> governor bobby jindal is scheduled to reveal he's proposal for balancing the state budget today. a budget $900 million in the red. in shreveport now, 73 degrees at the airport. 38 in menden. you're listening to shreveport news and weather station news radio 710. >> this weekend, book tv and american history tv explore the history and literary culture of shreveport, louisiana. saturday starting at noon eastern on book tv, author gary joyner on the union army's failure of louisiana "from one damn blunder from beginning to end." and then a look at the over 200,000 books of john smith nobel collection housed at the lsu shreveport archives. and walking tou

yes no maybe here we go the red is the bush administration the blue is the obama administration and when the blue stopped and this is unemployment and or employment private sector job job creation the loss of jobs below the line the creation of jobs above the line and you look at the third month in there that's when the stimulus package kicked in and all of a sudden the line starts getting a whole lot shorter and pretty soon it's positive how can you say that that's not causation faster that's not correlation that are they should know they're due to the i for one i think you're wrong i think you're wrong that is not cause i believe it's not causation now the other side of this is if you factor in population growth this is not even hitting that line the growth is not enough to make up for the amount of people that are actually in the work force granted there are jobs being created completely i guess that numbers show that's true and you know what it what it points to is the need for republicans to get of the way and let the president keep doing what he's been doing and do more of it repub

bush republicans and bush republicanism, somewhat in minimum high regard.jeb bush is not exactly the spokesperson for that wing of the party when they hear him say that. they don't say there's something wrong with me. they are more inclined to say there's something wrong with jeb. >> jeb was more the trusted conservative of the two. especially now. >> much more philosophic than w. >> it is fascinating how all of the most effective hits on santorum by romney at the debate the other night were for things santorum supported which were bush initiatives. as much bashing as the bush administration, republican years to -- >> the santorum record. >> why did you support no child left behind? why did you support the bailout? >> this is friday. you have your new nbc battleground map of which way states are leaning. the magic number to win the presidential election is 270 electoral votes. let's start with the democrats. this shows they 18 states and the district of columbia in blue either solidly, likely or leaning democrat. electoral votes out of the 227 right now. pu

you said bush, you have to say president bush. >> i shouldn't have.sually do put the word president before. >> bill: let me make this point and he is a rooky. guys like you and me that's been around, wasn't that point valid that even if you don't like the president you call him president or mister. >> i make a conscious effort to do that let me say one thing about jesse. i have offered him six figures, cash, if he would leave the country and never come back. and he -- >> bill: he ain't going to take it he is he becoming a star, goldberg. >> exactly he he won't take me up on it. >> bill: before he is through, is he going to squash p. diddy. he will regret those words. bernie goldberg, everybody. reality check is next. terrible school shooting in ohio. juan williams asking pat buchanan if he is he a racist. my oscar analysis on one big star. check is next. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight, reality check. we begin with an awful situation outside of cleveland, ohio. apparently a teenager began shooting students at chardon, high school. >> he spri

bush. thank you for being here. next, carlos gutierrez. we're honored to have secretary gutierrez, our conference co-chair, with -- alongside governor jeb bush with us today. he's the 35th secretary of the united states department of commerce. currently, secretary gutierrez is vice chairman of institutional -- of the institutional client group at citigroup. before his government service, he was working with tony the tiger as chairman and ceo of the kellogg company. thank you for being here. adam putnam. adam serves as florida's commissioner of agriculture. in this capacity he leads a state agency with the mission to promote the sector and foster it and provide a safe and abundant food supply and manage the forest resources and safeguard consumers. previously he served five terms in congress representing florida's 12th district in the u.s. house of representatives. thank you, commissioner putnam, for being here. last but certainly not leers, secretary spellings is with us. the eighth u.s. secretary of education, currently she's president an

the bush administration was an aggressive promoter of oil drilling.hat happens in energy policy a lot of times when you implement a policy it can be several years before you see the impact. so we are seeing a robust expansion of drilling under the obama administration as a result of policies put in place during the bush administration. >> so if they wanted to be honest they should say we should do more of what george b bush did, and he gets the increase in supply. >> it is true. there will an increase in supply and it was more due to the policies put in place by the republican administration. >> how important is conservation and fuel efficiencies when it comes to gas prices. >> they really don't have an impact on what the price of gasoline is. the price of gas is set by the price of oil. that's determined by factors like unrest in the middle east. that's the growing demand in india and china international financial markets. the advantage, the idea of what president obama and democrats are doing with conservation is saying if you put in place policies

bush up on the stage. maybe two dozen of us. they put me right next to barbara rush, first lady of the united states, for this picture. this is a situation where i know in my mind to say nothing. i knew that in my mind. [laughter] your brain does not always tell the rest of your body what the plan is. there was kind of a quiet moment with these high-powered journalists and this room full of people. i planned to say nothing, but for some reason my mouth came open, and i said to barbara bush, first lady of the united states, who i had never met. i said, a shot at the same supermarket as your son jebb. [laughter] i swear to you. i did shop at the same supermarket but this was before he became governor of florida. but i do not think the first lady was dying to know that. i do not think she was wondering if this fellow shops it is in supermarket -- she goes, well, who gives a shit? [laughter] not with her mouth but with her eyes. with her mouth, she said we just celebrated his birthday. i analyzed the statement. they have nothing to

at the at a base in afghanistan an apology that eerily sounds like one that was given by president bush a little earlier also with regard to the syria years that. maybe . maybe the president yesterday had a regularly scheduled secure video teleconference with prime minister maliki he opened. the meeting but i believe it was either the first of the second issue that the president brought out and to tell prime minister maliki he had heard about the incident when where the qur'an was desecrated and he apologized for that in the sense that he said that we take it very seriously we were concerned about their reaction we wanted them to know that the president knew that this was wrong and that the commanders in the field had. publicly reprimanded the soldier and removed him from iraq. so you know meanwhile we've conservative commentators calling the president the current president weak for doing what that former president just did which is apologizing for burning the koran and on top of that our warning afghanistan has produced more than just apologies the death and and created a nation of nom

bush didn't even respond to the letter. back paying for these things again from the bush administration. >> i agree with you, and that was dick cheney saying we don't negotiate with evil. but even bush didn't attack iran to give him credit. real quick, guys i got to ask you, if israel attacks and iran obviously counterattacks, do you think there's any chance in the world that the u.s. does not step in to help israel with that war? david? >> it's clear we step in. there's no question about it. >> yeah, go ahead, jimmy. >> another interesting fact there's 25,000 jews that live in iran? the third-biggest country that hosts jews in the whole world? plus jews are protected in the iranian constitution. did you know that? >> that's interesting. i did not know that. look at that the power panel brings us information i did not know. so all right. at the conclusion is we are screwed. we're going to war whether we like it or not. oh, boy. okay. thank you, guys. when we come back. ana was at the naacp image awards and asked some intere

bush and barbara bush when we would come visit them. so this space really does feel like home. >> what's the different feeling that you have today versus when you moved in here back in 2001? >> well, we were actually very familiar with the white house, because we had stayed here so often when george's parents were here. we knew the white house staff, the chief usher and the butlers, very well. so that really made us feel very comfortable. we knew this house could be lived in as a home, because we'd seen our parents do it. so we felt like it was a home as soon as we moved in. i often think of personal stories from the lives of presidents who have lived here before us, and of course, everyone knows the white house as the major american landmark that is both home and office to the president of the united states. but i hope people also know it as a private and personal home for the families that live here. a home where people live, a private and personal life. and i think of the story i heard about nancy reagan where she was resting after b

but the republicans, notice how the democrats did it against bush? the republicans have not done that. let me tell you, but for, and i will say this, because, you know, it is like, i watched donald trump take on the issue of tying it to energy and keystone and the president not being competent and taking the money away from the sheiks in the middle east, he makes it a big issue. and these people do not. if they let the president keep setting the pace, these these poll service he rises. he is setting the message for election. >>neil: but part of the president's message is the economy is improving and things are looking up. and you thing they have to punctuate these areas. >>guest: the immediate pocketbook and the danger. i said after the first of the year, i looked out there and i thought, what is the equivalent this year? europe in iran and you are talking about the impact of iran and what it will do to energy and what the israelis are doing, still playing with the european crisis. the question for the economy, is this a real recovery or last year, b