of course, they can. >> bush and dukakis on crime.he death penalty for first-degree murderers. dukakis not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison. one was willie horton who murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times. despite a life sentence, horton received ten weekend passes from prison. horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. weekend prison passes, dukakis on crime. >> the willie horton ad comes not from the official republican campaign, but from pro bush activists. >> willie horton was a black american, and i think one of the reasons the campaign did not want to associate itself directly with the ad is that they felt that people might interpret it as being a racist ad. >> weekend prison passes, dukakis on crime. >> but lee atwater smells fresh blood. >> lee knew that it was powerful. lee knew that it fit a liberal stereotype that would make a larger point about dukakis. >> atwater wants to put willie horton fr

something that helped george bush to win, at the time in 88, helped them to beat michael dukakis, and michael dukakis didn't help himself very much by being too unemotional over the issue during a a debate with b. and then by the time the 92 campaign came along, it was a different bush, different set of people supporting him, including conservatives who were angry at him over thegr tax increase. so this time you lost. >> host: on the legacy of the willie horton ad. >> guest: i mean, i think clarence said it very well. if you're talking about a civil rights legacy, it's good from yale and he fought for civil rights legislation and he was a member of congress in texas which went against his interest. on the legislative side he did well. hed appointed clerics thomas, african-american. the willieie horton ad, he wento the history of the apples of people interpreted the willie horton ad largely on whether youry liberal or conservative r republican or democrat. the people who defend george h. w. bush in that ad make the following argument. the furlough program was real and willie horton did

about this, and dukakis said george bush wasn't a racist.is was in the public record. any republican would have used it. and -- which i thought was incredibly gracious and magnanimous of governor dukakis. >> it set a new standard for what you could do in a campaign and win. and an ad that was pretty apparently racist being aired on your behalf. >> the ad was a very small buy in the maryland suburbs because the press would see it on their -- it was an early case of earned media for free media for an ad that was made. it was covered far more than it ever ran in the country. >> it seems like a depressing statement, natasha, that this ad, that we just saw, seems to be almost run of the mill for what we see today. >> and it resonates. my takeaway from that is it reminds you of the ad the trump campaign released, just fear mongering over the border showing migrants basically portraying them as people trying to storm the border as invaders. it does resonate a lot and it just shows how history repeats itself. >> jon meacham, thank you so much. are y

mostly dukakis.e to washington, one of the early legislative issues was raising the minimum wage in the early 1990s. i was with senator kennedy one day. in private conversation, he said, we're going to get a deal, trust me. president bush will call me a liberal s.o.b. i'll call him a heartless s.o.b. in the end, we'll get a deal. how did that work? >> well, he entered office with larger opposition majorities to him. so he recognized right at the outset he was going to need to be a bridge builder. he adopted a veto strategy in which he would lay out what the administration's position was. and then, if necessary, which he found he needed to do 44 times, would veto the bill and then go back to the negotiating table. we did this on the minimum wage. he vetoed the first one that came down that had been senator kennedy's original proposal. then we worked out an agreement which was closer to what the administration originally proposed. the congress passed it and he signed it. >> in the budget deficit negoti

then, he was down by 17 points to michael dukakis.re writing stories about what the dukakis president would be like. through measuring the drapes in the white house little too earl. i think the president figured out that it was about what direction the country was going to go to end. he really struck a chord by being conservative on taxes, conservative about national security, conservative about crime. perhaps being a little more to the center, if you will, on environmental protection and education and child care and some other areas. that resonated very well with the american voters. you remember, he won 426 electoral votes. he was the last republican to win states like california, new jersey, illinois, some of the states of big suburban populations. he got out there and worked very hard, did a great job. his acceptance speech that year, and we were traveling to four, five, sometimes six states a day. in that last couple months of that '88 election. >> harris: he was known for his incredible energy. [laughs] >> he liked to play about

reagan beat mondale in 49 states dukakis did better in 88 he only lost 40 carter lost mcgover mcgovern, think about that elections these days it is given the democrats will win 20 the republicans will win 20 then they scramble over the swing states this was not what it was like back then if you needed a democrat bill clinton could do that with the electoral college. >> this is the most understood thing about his rise that we think the democratic party from mondale and dukakis and they go back to the middle and he did run as a centrist in the general election but to get the democratic nomination he put himself in a position where he could rally the liberal guard to be the last hope of liberals to staple of one - - stave off paul tsongas the chief rival of the 1982 democratic nomination he was throwing tsongas not like mario cuomo because tsongas called himself a pro-business democrat i want to be the best friend wall street ever had as he was preparing to run for president under the assumption had to be centrist and the liberal guard of the party that didn't want anything to do with cli

by the time he locked up the nomination, bush was 17 points behind the democratic nominee michael dukakis>> three months ago i remember some of the great publications in this country had written me off. >> reporter: bush and his allies made up the ground by attacking dukakis as too liberal, soft on defense they said and soft on crime. >> a revolving door prison giving furloughs to first-degree murderers not eligible for parole. >> one was willie horton, who murdered a boy in a robbery. >> in the end dukakis lost 40 states and bush was president. president bush was immensely popular after the 1991 gulf war, but the glow faded fast. by 1992, voters were frustrated with the sour economy and impatient with the president who at times seemed out of touch with their concerns. >> how has the national debt personally affected each of your lives? >> -- maybe i'll get it wrong, but you're suggesting that somebody has means that the national debt doesn't affect them? i'm not sure i get it. help me with the question and i'll try to answer it. >> businessman ross perot was rich enough to mount a third

was a convict who walked away from massachusetts furlough program and it was the program michael dukakis appointed as governor and said he was linked to it first by democrats in the primary stage of the aspirations and leader people who supported the bush campaign they put ads on tv with this picture a frightful looking fellow who became this iconic bad guy that he wanted to byou ought to be ad therefore should be afraidid of michael dukakis and people wouldn't hesitate to attack the furlough program. something that helped george bush to win and he didn't help himself very much by being emotional over the debate. and then by theim time the camp came along it was a different set of people supporting him including conservatives are angry over the tax increase so this time he lost. >> guest: he voted for the civil rights legislation when he was a member in congress which went against his interests and on the legislative side heated as well. i know he was controversial because of his judicial philosophy. he went through the history of it and i will say people interpreted the ad largely on wh

we had all of these different things michael dukakis had done of a liberal major, but bush did not wanto attack him. he said i do not want to criticize him, i want to run a positive campaign. i said that he is not running a positive campaign against you. butwe finally, not just me others, had to convince him that it was counterpunching. that, he not done would have lost. he counterpunch and we want. caroline: charlie black, thank you very much. bush george herbert walker do solemnly swear -- >> that i will face of elite -- faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. >> that i will face of elite -- -- >> that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. >> his father was a banker and politician and the family living in connecticut where the younger bush attended private schools before attending yell. he did not go to you right away. he enlisted in the u.s. navy on his 18th birthday. a naval aviator, he flew 15 combat missions in the south pacific including one where his aircraft was hit. with this plan on fire, he dropped his bombs

of course, the subject of a 1988 devastating presidential campaign ad attacking michael dukakis overwas out on a weekend furlough from prison while dukakis was governor and ultimately raped a woman during the furlough and a devastating racially charged ad. one of the chief opponents of the measure talked to the president about willie horton and became concerned he could be saddled with a similar ad in 2020 if he went through with this measure but oval office meeting with kim kardashian and van jones, told them about alice johnson, the woman he pardoned from prison and eased the concerns and ultimately, he came to support this. pam? >> it's truly a remarkable story about how all of these different sides came together and how kim kardashian, van jones, republicans, everyone came together to make this happen. jeremy, thank you so much for that great reporting. >>> loretta lynch is getting grilled over the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. details just ahead. from the first loving touch everything that touches your baby should be this comforting pampers swaddlers, the #1 choi

1988 with senator dan quayle from indiana as his running mate, the republican team defeated michael dukakis and texas senator lloyd benson. >> i, george herbert walker bush, solemnly swear. >> during his presidency the soviet union dissolved, the berlin wall fell and met ron noriega was arrested securing the padlock now. then everything came to a head when iraqi's saddam hussein invaded neighboring kuwait. >> we are not walking away until our mission is done, until the invader is out of kuwait. >> president bush reacted quickly, committing over 400,000 us troops and building a strong coalition of allies. operation desert storm had begun. the majority of americans supported the president's decision to throw saddam hussein back into a rack and his popularity rating hit an all-time high, most body was unbeatable for second term but a broken campaign promise. >> read my lips, no new taxes. >> came back to haunt the 41st president. in the fall of 1992 with the war a distant memory george bush lost reelection to former arkansas governor bill clinton. bush traveled to kuwait to commemorate the gul

you can talk about the dukakis people didn't like the savagery of the campaign. he won 40 states, so you can argue about was it fair? it worked. they won 40 states. the guy at 84% after the gulf war in february 1991 loses in that three-way election. part of it was the times. part of it was -- again, the pa paradox of bush, understood the statistics as well as anybody but could not relate to real people about their pain in the economy. this is an iconic moment from one of the three-way debate. >> how has national debt personally affected each of your lives? and if it hasn't, how can you honestly find a cure for the economic problems of the common people. >> if the question -- maybe -- i don't want to get it wrong. are you suggesting that if somebody has means that the national debt doesn't affect them? i'm not sure i -- help me with the question and i'll try to answer it. >> in the same debate, he did this a couple of times. he looked at his watch. there's no twitter back then, no social media back then. the internet is a baby in these days. imagine if you did tha

doesn't anyone remember dukakis?" seth: what about cory booker. >> book 'em, dan-o. let me tell you about cory booker. [ laughter ] the guy is bald, big bald guy. and he likes the ladies, we all know that. he likes the ladies. booker, he's got a big mouth and he used to jump over the -- he used to drive a car -- tj booker, tough guy. [ laughter ] tj booker. and that guy totally restricted his career from "star trek." so unbelievable. [ laughter ] >> seth: oh, my god. fantastic. fantastic. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's frightening. >> seth: every now and then someone would say to me, "hey, would you want to have the president on this show?" and the thing i would say is, "it wouldn't matter." there's this idea that there's a good out there with him where he'll actually answer the questions that are asked. would you ever, though, like to as him interview h >> you know, i've never thought i -- i guess on my show we had this same question. and mind you, he was never going to come to our show. >> seth: sure, right. >> but

nation. ( applause ) >> glor: waging a successful presidential campaign against democrat michael dukakis. >> i will faithfully execute... >> glor: the 41st president called for a new world order as the global scene shifted rapidly. the berlin wall fell, then the soviet union. in panama, the president sent troops to overthrow the corrupt regime of manuel noriega. >> the day of the dictator is over. >> glor: but a battle with another dictator had only just begun. when saddam hussein's iraqi forces rolle rolled into kuwait, president bush assembled a global coalition. operation desert storm liberated kuwait in six weeks. his popularity was sky high after the war, but it plunged as he ran for re-election against bill clinton and independent ross perot. the promise he made in his first campaign came back to haunt him: >> read my lips: no new taxes. >> glor: he did raise taxes and amid an economic slowdown, he wound up losing in an electoral landslide. >> i couldn't do what ronald reagan, my friend and predecessor, did so well-- communicate effectively enough with the people. and that was my b

. >> george bush defeated democrat michael dukakis in 1988 and became president of the united states.> so help me god. >> the bush years saw epic events on the world stage. the tiananmen square massacre. the fall of the berlin wall. and the collapse of the soviet union itself. >> by the grace of god, america won the cold war. >> but his presidency's defining moment was saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait. >> this will not stand, this aggression against kuwait. >> backed by an international coalition, bush launched "operation desert storm" and drove iraqi forces out. >> aggression is defeated. the war is over. >> but saddam hussein remained in power until bush's son toppled him 12 years later. >> i thought saddam hussein would fall of his own weight when the war ended. and i thought they'd throw him out of there and they didn't. >> bush's post war popularity soared, then sank over economic concerns closer to home. in 1992, he lost to bill clinton, becoming a one-term president. >> i had my chance. i gave service to this country. and now i'm perfectly content to let history be the judge

the republican team defeated massachusetts governor michael dukakis in texas senator lloyd bentsen. >> i george herbert walker bush do solemnly swear. >> during his presidency the soviet unionre dissolved the berlin wall fell, and manweller noriega was arrested, securing the panama canal. when everything came to a head when iraq and saddam hussein invaded neighboring kuwait.or >> were not walking away and so our mission is done, in till th invader is out of kuwait. >> president bush reacted quickly over 400,000 u.s. troop in building a strong coalition of allies.er operation desert storm had begun . the majority ajof america supported the presidents decision to throw saddam hussei back into iraq and bush is popularity rating r was at an all-time high.be most thought he was unbeatable for a second term. a broken campaign promise. >> read my lips. >> would come back to haunt of the 41st president and in the fall of 1992 with the war a distant memory, george bush los reelection to former arkansas governor bill clinton. bush traveledsh to kuwait to commemorate the gulf war inat 1 and assa

that's why duval patrick's popularity -- ask michael dukaki dukakis. that happens to everyone.possibly her t realize how hi political perils were and sort of floated things that really fell early. and a field this big, people immediately start looking at the next best thing. >> obviously it's the beto phenomenon thateems to be upending all of this. what do you make of beto? >> i asked a bunch of democrats on election night, tewh me, is beto's magic? these were people in new york who had been volunteering to make phone calls for him. they had bn on the phone banks. they had been working hard for him. the best answer i got was that he reminds m of bobby kennedy with a certain youthfulness and seriousness. his magic so far is lost on me. think he was dinged a little bit -- >> he may not be trying to get your vote yet. >> that's possible. >> in fairness. >>ahm emanuel dinged him a little bit, right? either this week or la when he said, beto o'rourke, he lost, right? we don't neese a to me the headline on 2020 in the democrats is, g are theyng to look just like the republicans in '1

in the bluest city of the blue estate in the nation.w overwhelmingly supported his opponent mike dukakis for anything because he cared about doing something for the people who were so badly affected by this damage. >>> he keeps a group picture from the day. he was explaining what the city needed. >> and there is nancy pelosi. and then willie brown was the speaker. >> reporter: he said the city did benefit from the immediate federal response to the disaster. and today agnus offered his condolences. >> in thanking the family for the service that their father gave us and supporting everything we can do to honor his memory. >> reporter: now it wasn't the only time that president bush came to the bay area. but the former mayor said it was time they met in person. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thaou for that report. >>> heavy hearts in houston today where former president bush lived. the community there in mourning. people left flowers and they took pictures outside of the family home. >>> and how cool is this? check this out. president bush was a life-

the republican team defeated massachusetts governor michael dukakis and texas senator lloyd benson. >> i, drove herbert walker bush. >> during his presidency, the soviet union dissolved, the berlin wall fell, and my wall nor you go was in restaurant , securing the panama canal. when everything came to a head, when iraq's saddam hussein invaded neighboring kuwait. >> we are not walking away until our mission is done, until the invader is out of kuwait. >> bret: president bush reacted quickly, committing over 400,000 u.s. troops, and building a strong coalition of allies. operation desert storm had begu begun. the majority of america supported the president's decision to throw saddam hussein back into iraq and bush's popularity rating hit an all-time high. most thought he was unbeatable for a second term. but a broken campaign promise. >> read my lips: no new taxes. >> bret: would come back to haunt the 41st president. in the fall of 1992 with the war a distant memory, george bush lost reelection to former arkansas governor bill clinton. bush traveled to kuwait to commemorate the gulf w

he ran for election, and we were one of two cities, boston and san francisco that voted for mike dukakis, yet not a hint of any partisanship came through. >> reporter: he says everything he asked for to help san francisco recover federal quake was given to him part of water front. quakto b >> he relented in demolishing the freeway when his administration up until that point said you have to rebuild it, and i didn't want to rebuild it. he supported that. >> reporter: agnos says president bush's legacy of political civility and bipartisanship is something america should strive toward again. >> we can go back to the future with the kind of character and values, politically, that he stood for, even if you didn't agree with him. there was none of the vitriol we unfortunately see too much of today. >> reporter: in san francisco, andria borba, kpix 5. >> tonight there's a tribute to the mr. bush in a mideast bete. his fa was projected on t kuwait tooers with the flags of -- towers with the flags of kuwait and the united states. he pushed iraq out of kuwait in the persian war. >>> we have new vi

then in 1988 was decisively defeated michael dukakis for the presidency. a faltering econoam shook ican faith in bush. that led to losing reelection in 1992 toemocratic challenger bill inn. bush headed back to houston devoting time to his presidential library and staying active, even parachuting from an airplane on hisaybirt he saw two sons become governors. he looked o the 4 3rd president. thelon would caln the father to join forces with bill clinton to raise humanarian aid for victims of the indonesian tsunami in 204 -- 2004 and 2005 for hurricane katrina. the former president suffered heart break when barbara, his wife of 73 years passed away. he mourned with family, frdnds, former presidents.nb news. >> reporter: back with you live here athe white house. we are hearing from the family. we're expecting that theyare, indeed, working with the department of defense joint task force national capital region to make out the details of themb rence. the funeral and what have you. lyings expected to be him in state at the u.s. capital and a service at the nation

and they blamed governor dukakis' program.rought to massachusetts by a republican governor who took it from another republican governor, who was the first in the nation to have a weekend release program. that man's name was ronald reagan. and bush did -- i think what he did was, he didn't like it. if he didn't like it, he's the boss, cut it off. i hate to say it, but i think he wanted to be president and put it in their hands and sort of turned aside. >> and that ego, that desire to be president, there were dark stains, but then there were these core values that we look at that i think we all take pride in. so there's a kind of complicated nature there. >> well, we're talking about the whole man now here. >> yeah. >> i won't take back anything i've said earlier about the great guy, and we all liked him. but let's talk about another thing he did. he had to clean up the savings and loan mess. we deregulated savings and loan in the '80s and the crooks took us for $286 billion, the taxpayers. he had to take his read my lips, no ne

kidnap a young couple stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend weekend prison bashes dukakis on crime. that is considered really the standard when the politics of distress of hate begin in the united states well well i mean if we're going to have a you know you have guns yet the politics of hate was always present in the united states starting the civil war and racism was always present but not as strong as it is today and that's the difference and this loss in civility that we saw particularly the nine hundred ninety s. newt gingrich for example you and i were talking earlier some of that has spilled over into europe now we we talk about the trump train coming into europe i mean how do you see it here in germany well of course that there are trends you. should take them seriously but they're not by far not as strong as they are in the united states right now and that is the major is still the major difference between here and there right now and you know despite all that maybe seems to have gone wrong there is something there's a silver lining to this president bush sr remin

famous by the willie horton ad used against michael to caucus which had racial overtones -- michael dukakishad racial overtones and was seen as a divisive ploy by the republican party. it was hardball politics. his personal demeanor was a bit easternerand as the he carried on relationships with both his political opponents, as well as his allies. while personally gracious, he was ready to play hardball. after today's ceremony, waht hat does the week have in store? >> the capitol rotunda will be kept open all night through wednesday morning, before the placel, which will take at 11:00 on wednesday. it will include president trump and the former living presidents, and they will have a ceremony there. longll be eulogized by his advisor,nd and close james baker, and james simpson, a contemporary. remains will be taken back to texas, where he will be buried at the bush library at the college station. there will be two or three days of ceremony. pretty much all else in washington has come to a stop. there are no votes in capital. closed on will be wednesday. the supreme court has put off its cale

that was willie horton and mike dukakis. >> it was a rough campaign.n you look at any political leader you have to take the bad with the good. history siphons away some things that may be negative. sometimes it emphasizes things that may be a negative. but i think in bush's case, the 1988 campaign is something that embodied the way he approached life, but i would say not. this is a person for most of his life worked hard for civil rights, tried to bring this country together. had values of decency and an efrtd to rea effort to reach across the aisle. >> this is interesting. he did have an ability to reach across the aisle, which was more common back then than now any way. he had difficulty within his own party. he had conservatives who didn't think he was of them. and he had a new breed of neoconservative who didn't think he was of them. >> right. he was -- though he lived most of his life in texas, he was a new england republican. he was born in massachusetts. grew up in connecticut. you tell me, ali, how many new england republicans are there in fede

the republican team defeated massachusetts governor michael dukakis and texas senator lloyd benson. >i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear... >> bret: during his president, the soviet union dissolved, the berlin wall fell, and manuel noriega was arrested, securing the panama canal. everything came to a head when iraq's saddam hussein invaded neighboring kuwait. >> we are not walking away until our mission is done, until the invader is out of kuwait! >> bret: president bush reacted quickly, committing over 400,000 u.s. troops, and building a strong coalition of allies. operation desert storm had begun. the majority of america supported the president's decision to throw saddam hussein back into iraq and bush's popularity rating hit an all-time high. most thought he was unbeatable for a second term. but a broken campaign promise... >> read my lips: no new taxes: to. >> bret: would come back to haunt the 41st president. in the fall of 1992, with the war a distant memory, george bush lost reelection to former arkansas governor bill clinton. bush traveled to kuwait to commemorate

the republican team defeated massachusetts governor michael dukakis and texas senator lloyd benson. >i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear... >> bret: during his president, the soviet union dissolved, the berlin wall fell, and manuel noriega was arrested, securing the panama canal. everything came to a head when iraq's saddam hussein invaded neighboring kuwait. >> we are not walking away until our mission is done, until the invader is out of kuwait! >> bret: president bush reacted quickly, committing over 400,000 u.s. troops, and building a strong coalition of allies. operation desert storm had begun. the majority of america supported the president's decision to throw saddam hussein back into iraq and bush's popularity rating hit an all-time high. most thought he was unbeatable for a second term. but a broken campaign promise... >> read my lips: no new taxes: to. >> bret: would come back to haunt the 41st president. in the fall of 1992, with the war a distant memory, george bush lost reelection to former arkansas governor bill clinton. bush traveled to kuwait to commemorate

. >> sreenivasan: do you think that the willy horton ad against michael dukakis ushered in a new era. now, while that is still a bad ad, when you look tat now,t seems tame compared to what kind of ads are on the air every twao >> it seems tame now, but that was something that hinted at racial animosity. it was certain no means george bush's best moment. in later years, heot proud of it. best he could say was, "i make a differentation between campaigning and governing." in retrospect, he nev have allowed the ad. actually, the willy horton ad was an inependent ad, but there was an official ad that hinted at some of the same things. they should not have done that. >> sreenivasan, you know, we talk about the fact that there have only been twoamilies that had a father and son as president. but it's hard to uderstate enormous impact one family has had on american politics, going from george h.w george h.w. busd all the wan to his son and perhaps his grandkids. >> that's right. over 30 years, you had bushes at the center of presidential politics. and hari, maybe not only that period of time

then he had top redefine michael dukakis. brit: he attacked his opponent over a prison release program in massachusetts. >> while out, many committed other crimes like kidnapping and rape. many are still at large. brit: governor duf governor dufe furlough program ahead. >> over the years it has become a i am boflt alleged negativity of that campaign. brit: bush went on to a solid victory gaining 53.7% of the popular vote. a number no president, republican or democrat has gone the since. three days before he took off he privately took stock of himself. do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth, or one that's good for my teeth? now i don't have to choose. from crest 3d white, the whitening therapy collection with new spearmint and peppermint oil. it gently whitens, plus it has a fortifying formula to protect your enamel. crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life. xfinity mobile is a designed to save you money. even when you've got serious binging to do. wherever your phone takes you, your wireless bill is about to cost a whol

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1980 he was named ronald reagan's running mate and then in 1998 bush decisively defeated michael dukakis for the presidency. but a faltering economy shook american faith in bush. that led to losing re-election in 1992 to democratic challenger bill clinton. bush then headed back to houston devoting time to his presidential library and staying active, even parachuting from an airplane on his birthday. he saw two sons become governors, and he looked on as george w. became the 43rd president. the son would call on the father to join forces with clinton to raise humanitarian aid for the victims of the indonesian tsunami in 2004, and in 2005 for hurricane katrina. in 2010 president obama honored bush with the presidential medal of freedom for a life of service to his country that by that time spanned nearly seven decades. but the former psi 73 years, passed away. he mourned with family, friends, and former presidents. now bush's son george w. broke the news in a statement late tonight on behalf of the family saying in part, "jeb, neil, marvin, doroug and i are saddened to announce that after 9

dukakis never made it in. >>> for eight years, he'd been a heartbeat away from the oval office. a loyal vice-president. >> we will carry the fight and we shall win. >> biding your time, waiting your turn. you know the path to power. and you think you know the rules. but what happens when you discover you don't even know how to play the game? ♪ ♪ >>> 1960, america, land of the free, terrified of the red menace. >> america was very unsettled. the soviets had the bomb. and because of that, there was uncertainty there. there was fear. >> america has confidence in its president. father of the nation in world war ii. dwight d. eisenhower. but even presidents have to retire. who can step into his shoes? many think, this is the man. eisenhower's vice-president for eight years. richard millhouse nixon. >> richard nixon is well known to the american people. >> nixon's not scared of the russians. as soviet leader nikit nikita kruschev found out. >> there must be a free k3 change of ideas. >> capitalism versus communism. back and forth and back and forth, jabbing with the fingers. the words

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and he had to say it is better if the other peoples tell the strip release read stories about kitty dukakiseir knowledge. it was a very brutal campaign. so the national media today, is portraying, this kinder and gentler, which go back. this modern president is a philistine, he is too crude. but this is modern presidency and to win, whether george h. w. bush or donald trump, you have to learn to win by branding and by counter punching. this is the new politics and it is not evil. it is new. >> and the time is unique. never have we seen any president as we are watching this president. not only by the national left-wing media, but by the elites of his own party, the globalist, power structure in the country. which is at least at the surface, you can see the business roundtable, the chamber of commerce, the koch brothers, wall street all attacking the president and his policies because people, if they just speak clearly, he is the one who is challenging 45 years of deficits, trade deficits with the world. $20 trillion in debt, and continued -- in the status quo the rather than the american mid

became the subject of this devastating attack ad against the democratic nominee in 1988, michael dukakis who was the governor of the state that he was released and he attacked this woman. this all came to a head during a meeting in the oval office on september 5th when the president gathered with his son-in-law, jared kushner, van jones and kim kardashian west, who actually played a key role in terms of encouraging the president to move forward on this despite those concerns. she sought to replace the name of willie horton with the name of alice marie johnson, the 63-year-old woman who the president pardoned from her life sentence in prison for non-violent drug offenses. she told the president "alice is your legacy, mr. president." that's how she was able to get the president to start getting over this fear of willie horton. supporters said this was one of the key pivotal moments that led the president to give his endorsement and get to the floor of the senate. >> jeremy, thank you. president trump has tweeted his support for the prison reform overhaul and promises to sign it when it rea

and a president heavily focused on international relations, no less than his 1988 opponent, mike dukakis, former governor of massachusetts, praising how wise he was. there's his son, george w. bush, the 43rd president, here for the final good-bye. he's there with general michael howard, who is the head of the command here in d.c., which includes the honor guard. >> all the family on the tarmac getting ready for this final departure ceremony. they'll be boarding this plane and heading off to houston with the casket of course. there will be more state services tomorrow in houston followed by the burial at texas a&m university, where the george h.w. bush presidential library is based. >> look at how george w. bush is becoming right before our eyes the patriot yack of tarch of th family. he was the oldest brother of the children who had come to grieve and mourn their father and today he is the patriarch of the family, the head of the family. >> it's another moment and it's another emotional moment. i just want to listen in and watch. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> they'll be boarding the aircraft now. th

michael dukakis picked lloyd bentz benson. and president bush always liked that he finally got a chance to meet lloyd benson. >> it's raining, it's raw. it's not pleasant outside. >> those kids will remember that the rest of their lives. >> exactly. the parents, the children, they want to have this moment in history. and this moment of reverence and to salute this commander in chief. >> they'll removed the drape from the window so they'll be able to see the flag-draped casket of this president of the united states. and texans are there and i'm sure others have come as well to pay their respects. they'll be doing it where we are right now at the presidential library. people have gathered already to see -- to get ready for this moment. it will be a sad moment. he will be laid to rest and he'll rejoin barbara bush, who was laid to rest here back in april. >> and this presidential library, it's sad while we're saying good-bye to presidents, but what great gifts they are across the country. i interviewed bob gates, who is also a gi

that race when he came back against dukakis was tough.inton beat him, he was a decent man throughout. charles: robert charles, having said that to a degree i will take jay's comments and expand it, maybe a longing for beyond washington, d.c., in the political world, but america itself to return to a level of civility. of course we've never been a perfect nation but our mission to become a perfect nation and perhaps we're off course right now? >> you're so right, charles. i would note, jay and i were law school together, bound by these same kind of values. i will tell you in the grand scheme of things this begins with your neighbor. what george herbert walker bush taught us, what he would want now, now that we just watch and be moved by things of his life, that we now learn, remember, dig inside of ourselves to taking that hand and reaching it to our neighbor. you know, ultimately the leadership of the country is a reflection who we are and we americans always found a way to call on our better angels. i think it's a reminder that more than

historians, really a key campaign in the path to where we went, really undercut a lot of michael dukakisregrets the tactics they used but the record is there. and i think as historians we need to talk about all parts of president bush, his commitment to golfance and many policy accomplishments but the 1988 campaign which was ruthless was part of his record as well. >> doug, do you have any sense of what his thoughts were in later years about where politics have gone in that regard? >> yeah. very interesting to me. there was this duality in him. he was very ruthless. he was personally very kind and gentle, but he always had a strong man. in the family, it was george w. bush who was assertive and strong. i remember at one point jennifer fitzgerald was almost hated in the campaign. she was running the vice president's office and then craig fuller, a very strong aggressive personality, lee atwater, which was mentioned, very ruthless and then when he went into the white house, john sununu is one of the strongest chiefs of staff in american history. there was no accident that he always would h

. >> reporter: bush beat michael dukakis in a landslide, but by that time, the world beyond our shorescausof h temperament and long experience in policy, bush kept belligerency and boasting down, and the situation cooled. in 1990, when saddam hussein invaded kuwait, bush put together a remarkable multination coalition that drove him back to his own borders. bush the popularity went through the roof and his re-election was a foreign gone conclusion. but as the nation's deficit ballooned, he bit the bullet and raised taxes. the move worked, and the economy verforgave him for breaking cans his no new taxes promise, and he lost the '92 election in a three-way race with ross perot and bill clinton. in time, he saw sons george and jeb elected to governorships and george as our 43rd president. george h.w. bush was perhaps the most modest man ever to hold the presidency. his proudest legacy he always said was that his kids still came home to see him. and his greatest achievement was marrying barbara who died earlier this year after 73 years of marriage. >>> here with his own view of our 41st p

defeating michael dukakis. bush made a promise he would later break. >> read my lips. >> but progress on his watch was felt around the world. the fall of the berlin wall, and the of communism in eastern europe. perhaps notably the liberation of kuwait a after the iraqi invasion. >> a lan drawn in the sand. >> despite the popularity a faltering economy and growing budget deficit weakened his presidency. and in 1992 he was defeated by bill clnton with the election of george w. bush in 2000, the senior bush joined john adams as president and presidential father. he devoted his retirement helping others. raising money with president clinton for the disaster victims. >> he could have chosen a live of comfort appear privilege. instead time and again when offered a chance to serve he seized it. >> in the end bush like his son insisted he would let history measure his legacy. >> and the president's body will return to texas just as he requested. he will be laid to rest on the grounds of his presidential library next to barbara and their daughter robin. maggie reule, abc 7 news

and we spread rumors about kitty dukakis., we ran operatives if in our opponents' campaigns without their knowledge. it was a very brutal campaign. so the national media today is portraying this was kinder, gentler, we should go back, this modern president, he's a philistine, he's too crude. but this is the modern presidency, and to win it -- whether you're george h.w. bush or donald trump -- you're going to have to learn how to win it by branding and by counterpunching. this is the new politics, and it's not evil, it's new. lou: yeah. and in this time, it's unique. never have we seen any president assailed as we are watching this president not only by the national left-wing media, but by the elites of his own party, the globalists, the power structure in this country which is at least at the surface you can see the business round table, the chamber of commerce, the koch brothers, wall street all attacking this president and his policies because people, if they just, you know, think clearly, he is the one who's challenging 45

. >> lily atwater and what it meant in the battle against michael dukakis. he was losing, then that ad started running. but at the same time, this is a guy who passed the american disabilities act, a guy who talked about the clean air act. he passed the clean air act. but the sense of what it meant to govern, his commitment to the country, we can disagree with the policies, but one thing we can't question it and that is his loyalty to the country. >> eddie, thank you very much joining me here in new york. i want to ask you to stick around, if you would. coming up, one of the greatest love stories in american history. how george and barbara bush's love story lasted 73 years and launched a political legacy. >> i have climbed the highest mountain in the world, but even that cannot hold a candle to being barbara's husband. mom used to tell me, now, george, don't whack ahead. little did she know -- >> oh. don't do that. >> little did she know what? >> i was only trying to keep up. with chantix. i tried cold turkey, i tried the patch. they didn't work for me. i di