bar." >> woodruff: his wife, barbara. >> his wife, barbara bush. >> woodruff: david bates, we're tryingure in just a few minus again the complexity of this man with the humor, you know the fact that almost died when he went into the pacific. what jon meacham was remembering today. and yet, in the end, he did a lotsresident. i mean,s he was only there-- not only-- he was there for four years. but there was-- he was managing a foreign policy at a time when durope was it's world was changing at the f the soviet union. i mean, he managed to pull off o >> he was a very consequential president. and i think secretary j baker said it-- said it best, and he's certainly best one-term president the country has everd. and-- and-- and i agree with him. he's one of the most outstanding presidents we've ever had. he had-- his record on foreign policy is well known to many, ending the cold war without a shot being fired, which is unique in history. reunificat was-- which was opposed by most leaders of western europe. we know-- we know about the first gulf expwar how successful the diplomacy was i but o

york times" columnist maureen dowd, presidential historian michael beschloss, bush family friend, david batesrked in the bush 41 white house, and our margaret warner, now senior fellow at yale university's jackson institute for global affairs. hello to all of you. what day it has been. i have to say, it was a state funeral, but it waso as perl to me as any official thing i've ever seen. there were accolades. there were humor. and there were tears. i mean i was wiping away teahers at our-- at our anchor desk. maureen dowd, what did youtake away today? >> well, judy, it was heartwarming to see w.'s incredible emotion toward his father. but it was also kiof heartbreaking because, you know, i've spent decades covering the family, and the ther, you know, constantly worried that dick cheney and donald rumsfeld were leading w.positive astray on the iraq w, and the neocons were leang him astray, and i think w. did not want to seek his father's advictor hear wha he had to say about the invasion of iraq. and then it tooyears andars before he came around and realized his father was right and distanced h

spring an aide to jim baker came aboard and then becky beach, becky brady beach game aboard and then david bates who i saw yesterday. we needed to have a travel aide. i was traveling with the prospective presidential candidate but needed to be in the office the last couple months of the 78 elections where he was barnstorming the country. he hired his tennis partner to be his young lawyer in houston to be his travel aide. i saw david yesterday at the funeral. boy, we were young once. >> shepard: we have a person who worked as the special assistant when president bush 41 held office and has been with the family for the last couple of days. remarkable time. how is the family holding up? i can't -- we've all had the sad occasion of a family member dying and the stress that goes along with it. here we have a week of this. how are they? >> well, i haven't had direct contact with the family but i was there at the ceremony yesterday in the national cathedral. it was an incredible time of love and friendship and it struck me there was a lot of emotion, a lot of laughter, a lot of tears, but just the love

david david you're like so well integrated into the scientific community which is a paradox because people of. your interest don't usually together with scientists you do because you're scientists at bates have you ever proposed to scientists who study human biology to. something up to your brain to observe. i raise differently i see things differently something is changing or on me when i do it the way i do it do you want to just maybe observe it and see what's going on with the human brain i mean absolutely i mean there are all that there are. just so it's a very simple personally and there's a mantra. many. specifically to some. because buddhism is not a religion it is a very sign it's. a style deal and. there is a lot of monks that have submitted. themself to us to where we rigorously experiment in research so we do have all these daughters and it's going to just grow and grow and grow what is interesting for me is like ok we have those monks maybe that will be meditating for sixty thousand out of us but and so we can see some incredible meru physiological changes right. personality changes and for the behavioral changes called in if changes but can we heck can we speed up these res

david you like so well integrated into the scientific community which is a paradox because people of. your interest don't usually mesh well together with science as you do because you're a scientist at bates have you ever proposed to scientists who study human biology to maybe something up to your brain to observe. i raise differently i see things differently something is changing your on me when i do it the way i do it. do you want to just when i do it the way i do it do you want to just maybe observe it and see what's going on with the human brain oh yeah i mean absolutely i mean i mean all that there are. just so it's a very simple post on the and as i mentioned on the cob the many monks specifically buddhists to somehow because buddhism is not a religion it is a very sign it's. the star of the mind. there is a lot of monks that have submitted. themself to use two very rigorous experimental research so we do have all these doctors and it's going to just grow and grow and grow what is interesting for me is like ok we have those monks maybe to do with that have been meditating for sixty thousand out of us that and so we can see some incredible meru physiological changes ride personality