. >> what was george like? >> charming. >> she says he always had a good side manner. >> the way he greeted you. >> i thought he was respectful. >> patients did call me and made comments about him. he's a great doctor. >> now the doctor is in need of care. >> georgia's research partner, a doctor, named anna marie gonzalez was also with him outside the er. anna had seen him at the office that day and later at a business dinner, that cell phone video documents her describing his symptoms. >> for people that knows him, he still slurs. >> george agreed to be examined at md anderson and words spread fast that one of their doctors checked in. >> what is it? is he stressed? >> doctors suspected that george may have suffered a stroke but his mri was clear. >> whatever that was wrong was getting worse. >> he was deteriorating and his health was going downhill. >> a few hours arriving at the er, the doctor was unconscious. his organs failing and he was rushed to icu. >> through the night, george laid near death. inside t

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george h.w. bush. jim baker's first chapter in the book you will not be able to put the rest of it down. >> cell and or, you not only can comment or remember the bush 41 administration, but also someone who put the uniform back on during that era. so again, it is a fallacy that bush 41 was somehow afraid to use military force. >> it was a fallacy. we should george bush was quite the opposite he was able to control himself and who like to punch someone out or yell at someone. enough that he could get what he wanted done. without browbeating people and making friends with them. the only non- american the only non- participant in the bush administration hey wrote a chapter in said gorbachev said to him, if i did not trust george bush the snow would have not happened all of the transformation would not have happened and it could have resulted in a war. and gorbachev himself said because he trusted bush. that makes a big difference. it was not widely understood. i want to tell you a story located in l

george clooney. hey, george, how are you? >> hello, jimmy, how are you? >> jimmy: i'm good.r ] >> jimmy: smoking is no good for you, daniel. [ laughter ] george, daniel was great in this movie. isn't he? i mean, come on, he is unbelievably good. >> yeah. he actually screwed it up for all the rest of us actors who do this [ bleep ] about how difficult our job is. he showed up, never acted before, he did everything in one take. >> jimmy: is that true? all in one take? >> yeah. >> jimmy: wow. [ laughter ] [ applause ] you didn't even know what a take was before this, daniel. >> no, i did. >> jimmy: so -- okay, so you guys -- i imagine you had a lot of fun on the set, right? >> yes. >> jimmy: yeah. and as far as batmen go, daniel, who is your favorite? ben affleck or george clooney? oh my goodness, wow. [ cheers and applause ] holy moly. george. george, i don't -- i -- i don't know if you're aware of this. but the woman sitting next to you? >> hm? what? >> jimmy: there's a woman sitting next to you. right there. [ laughter ] wow. holy -- leaving behind only -- maybe i hallucinat

george h.w. bush, and american foreign policy. a collection of accounts from bush administration officials who helped shape world events from the fall of the soviet union to the gulf war. >> i'm mark green, president and ceo. the wilson center was chartered by congress more than 50 years ago to, in their words, strengthen the fruitful relation between the world of learning and the world of public affairs. one of the principle ways we fulfill that mission is through our history and public policy program, which strives to make public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world and based upon those records to facilitate scholarship, education, and debate. we also mobilize scholarship and research to inform public policy in other ways. from podcasts like international history declassified, to blogs like my own stubborn things. and today's program is very much in line with that purpose. our guests today, andy card. andy has served as chai

george h.w. bush. and andrew is a professional at the book store and director of the skull croft institute of affairs and distinguished professor at georgetown, a veteran who served in the gulf war, u.s. special envoy to sudan in the dar forcrisis. today they have edited and produced "transforming our world, george h.w. bush a collection of foreign policy" a collection of essays from those that participated in the unfolding the events of r as part of the bush administration. we'll have time to take a few audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions, please submit them to event@wilson center.org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me, a recurring theme in this book, even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good fortune. the notion that george h.w. bush was uniquely qualified to lead the free world when he did. as you point out, he's the first president in 128 years with prior diplomatic experience. the only pres

i think about george all the time.my: as part of derek chauvin's plea deal, he will also plead guilty to violating the civil rights of a black 14-year-old during a 2017 arrest. chauvin grabbed the teen by the throat, hit him repeatedly in the head with a flashlight, and pressed his knee into the boy's neck while he was prone, handcuffed, and not resisting. the teen, who has not been identified, was present in the courtroom wednesday. according to the pool reporter inside court, philonise floyd turned to the teen after chauvin's hearing and said, "it's a good day for justice." this is george floyd's nephew, brandon williams, speaking at the floyd family press conference wednesday. >> we were in court with a minor who also played guilty to charges of assaulting him. after hearing the details of it, that guy is a monster. he should have been arrested in 2017. had he been held accountable for what he did in 2017 that minor, george floyd will still be here. he knew what he was doing. he had nine minutes and 29 seconds to un

i had done that before with george bush and it is a great honor. i was elected assistant leader when he was an elected leader and served with him for 10 years. i was in the infantry and he was obviously a combat veteran. i told them i would be your first lieutenant and he would be the captain and you don't have to worry about me. there are footsteps behind the waiting to take your job and i will go over the hill for you. we did that and we had a wonderful relationship based upon intelligent. i do beg your pardon, and we loved to legislate. we were both partisan, but he worked well with the other side. he worked well with george mitchell and robert byrd and tom daschle. we got the job done. we were not there as republicans and democrats but as republicans. -- as americans. that would be embarrassing to be in congress now to see a man with an d behind his name and he is ugly or an r behind his name and he has a monster. i can just tell you that things came up and we dealt with the decibel disability act, we go with immigration -- the disability act,

>> good morning, george. you know, first, i just want to say that my prayers go out to everybody, all of those families that have been impacted in the communities. this is a devastating event, you know, as you've heard, record-breaking, right? record-breaking tragedy that has left so many families displaced. what we are hearing is we are still in the life-saving and life-sustaining mode, right? we're still in search and rescue, and we're sending additional resources in to help locate anybody who still may be trapped. >> and what's the greatest need going forward? >> i think right now, again, we want to focus the next -- today and the next day on life-saving. we really want to make sure we find anybody who still might be trapped in the rubble across all of these states, but then it's going to be a long recovery. we really need to focus on how we're going to help these communities with their immediate needs, their immediate sheltering needs, and be able to help these communities and families rebuild. >> what is

george, iwonder if george and rosamound, lovely to have you back.k us off, please? were going to start off with the front page of the daily mirror. the virus fight still rages but there is a new year and a new hope.— still rages but there is a new year and a new hope. yes, so this is some rare optimism. _ and a new hope. yes, so this is some rare optimism, rare _ and a new hope. yes, so this is some rare optimism, rare hope _ and a new hope. yes, so this is some rare optimism, rare hope during - and a new hope. yes, so this is some rare optimism, rare hope during this| rare optimism, rare hope during this pandemic. there was a lot of concern about comic con given how transmissible it is and cases have already reached record highs. but the cause for hope is that the virus is not at present causing the levels of hospitalisation that the delta variant did or that the original variant did or that the original variant dead. and that is partly because so many more people are vaccinated. and partly because it does seem to be inherently less severe than del

i did that before with george bush and it is a great honor. i was elected when he was elected leader, served for 10 years as assistant leader. he was a combat veteran. i told him, i said i will be your first lieutenant, you will be the captain, and you don't have to worry about me. we did that. we had a wonderful relationship based upon intelligence --i beg your pardon --and we loved to legislate. we were both partisan, obviously. he was a very partisan person, but he worked well with the other side. he worked well with george metro and robert byrd and tom daschle. i worked with a californian and a kentuckian. we got the job done. we were not republicans and democrats. we were there as americans. i would be embarrassed to be in congress now. see a man with an d behind his name and he is ugly or an r behind his name and he has a monster. i can just tell you that things came up and we dealt with the decibel disability act, we go with immigration -- the disability act, we dealt with immigration. there is no such thing as a partisan immigration bi

it's one of the first george washington refuses to become a dictator george the third said that if hes that, to be the greatest man in the world. but at that moment, he was an think about it, this was caesar did rommel dead or what napoleon will do or others will do or castro will do. they tend to believe that they are the revolution, dictators do have a difficult separating themselves from it. >> okay we have questions from those viewing and i'll begin with some of them, fermanagh, listen to the path of becoming an historian and what sparked your interest in history. >> gosh, i think reading biographies, can history through biography and through lives and i love biographies since there was always a center of topic and i sort of thought look will come into this world the same way really the same way. what can we learn by people who lived before of this and some of them a thousand years before us so this perhaps an adolescent way to come to this but as i said, i didn't major in history predict i majored in philosophy and i decided to go forward in history because for many reasons, beca

if only george iii newwhat was going on he stopped it all . and pretty soon over time they come to the realization that banking on george iii is a hopeless cause. because nobody is more committed to imposing imperial power on thecolonies than george iii . and when the war is over and they're looking for scapegoats erthe first thing you do when there's a war is look for scapegoats. they should have fashionedon george v but they end up fact passing on the generals . not so much cornelis and or but then george jermaine, the secretary of defense. and because if you pass on george iii your passing on the whole empire and at any rate before he begins to lose his mind, he doesn't lose his mind. before he becomes mentally depraved e, george iii exercised the greatest imperial power of any british king since the glorious revolution. and he's the real scapegoats. >> was george washington a military genius to win the war with so few troops? a lot of times is troops weren't even close to barely but or was he just lucky that the british bubbled their effor

but then george jermaine, the equivalent secretary of defense.pass it to georga the third, you are passing on a whole empire. at any rate, he does not lose his mind, but before he becomes mentally depraved, george exercises the greatest imperial power of any british king since the glorious revolution. and he is the real scapegoat. was george washington a military genius to win the war with so few troops. sometimes they were not even close barely. was he just lucky that the british fondled their effort to win? was it a combination of both? >> washington himself would say he was probably lucky. winning a war was like a standing miracle. the way i put it, as a general, washington was not that effective. he lost more battles in a one. the great generals in world historyt, they end up losers. washington was not a great general, but he ended up a great winner. we understand a strategic reality. he did not have to win the war. there british had to win the war. it's a lot easier not to lose. as long as he kept it intact and as long as the colonies stayed

george. yes it is. and the russians have repeatedly refer to the exemplar of the cuban missile crisis in the cuban missile crisis. the kennedy administration laid it on the line to show which is that your stationing missiles in cuba, 90 miles off the coast of florida, is an existential threat to the united states. and we are not interested in your disingenuous, legalistic arguments. well, these are entirely defensive and cuba is a sovereign country and has a right to decide who provides it with ms and so on. basically saying, i think you get this out, we will, and we're going to do it very quickly. and russians are precise, true for that's our attitude. now, we're just not interested in disingenuous arguments about the sovereign, right? so the ukranian people, which is at the moment we saying that what you're doing in your brain is affecting us in a profound, essential way. we will act unilaterally, and that means, you know, if you're going to continue to dump the military hardware, build up a major mil

george. you summarize that actually be there. i think that's exactly what the russians saying, which is that we have been saying the same thing to you over and over again starting from 1991. when a go or assurances from the west of the west will not expand into space left off the withdrawal. so ok, and you know, we've complained again and again in the west is treated complaints with content and just say, you know, you lost the cold war. you know, then the brakes and now that the geopolitical situation has changed very much in an adverse fashion where there was a still playing this game coming up with these silly, legalistic arguments like what every country has the summer and right to decide its own security arrangement. and in any case we, we never promised you anything. and even if we didn't promise you anything, we didn't put it in writing. and in any case, it was a defensive alliance. how much it make span, all the way to central asia, to chinese, all those. it's still a defensive alliance. and so like coming up with this kin

of what derek chauvin did to george floyd.a frazier held her ground, and she kept recording. she then posted her video on facebook, and the police lie instantly began to crumble. >> probably close to midnight, a community member had contacted me and said, chief, almost verbatim, but said, chief, have you seen the video of your officer choking and killing that -- that man at 30th and chicago? so once i heard that statement, i just knew it wasn't the same milestone camera video that i had saw. and eventually within minutes after that, i saw for the first time what is now known as the bystander video. >> darnella frazier changed the police chief's mind about what happened on that street, and the next day derek chauvin was fired. when darnella frazier testified in the trial, she said she wished she did more. >> when i look at george floyd, i look at -- i look at my dad. i look at my brothers. i look at my cousins, my uncles because they are all black. i have a black father. i have a black brother. i have black friends. and i look

ok, george. and i think that anyone that doesn't take rushes read line seriously or not serious people go ahead. no, i think that they are no serious people. but you're absolutely right. you can see how this rhetorical inflation that has come from natives, and later on we are a defensive alliance. russia is the rest. so what is your evidence that russia is an aggressive look what he's doing to ukraine, but your grade isn't a member of nato. so, i mean, you was trying to push your way into nato. you was trying to write, go right up again into russia, borders, and now you're saying, oh, it's russia that is the rest. so and then again saying that i was the wrestler in georgia, but it would be events in georgia in 2000 and they were a direct consequence of nato's ridiculous promise to both george and your brain that they will eventually be members of nature. nature is continually kind of creating its own problems and then why justifying existence while we are defensive, why to listen? horrific aggres

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george washington warned us, he predicted us. especially when another phrase from the farewell address act like a pretended patriots, really acted like they are more patriotic than anybody else which itself washington essays ascending its national unity or if they fed into that stuff that washington warned against, they are part of the problem. let's not pull any punches about that. washington made a very explicit warning we just live through evidence of. so we could not be more relevant and that is precisely why we need to be listening to washington's farewell address now, today. we are falling into the traps he warned us about almost 250 years ago. >> john quickly and the most recently brought the farewell address, when did they stop making it mandatory to read the farewell address is the full congress, both houses are just the senate? >> the senate still reads it every year. yes it does. >> how ironic. [laughter] >> i would argue the house is more partisan than the senate although it is kind of a jump ball. what he thought you

george doesn't happen in a vacuum. this is a thing that's been building up and obviously comes to a kind of a spectacular clash here at gettysburg. so i'm going to pause for a minute. hopefully some of you can see this. i would more than anything characterize the mead sickles communication breakdown on july 2nd. i would characterize that as a failure to communicate more than anything and some you know, again some historians will say no sickles got direct orders, and he just violated them because you know, he didn't like me the reason new yorker or he wanted to do or he's a president, you know, all the school this kind of stuff. i think if you break it down first of all clear indirect orders the orders that sickles received as far as where to places troops on july 2nd were verbal as far as we know they were verbal orders, you know that always carries a risk of being miscarried but also for us as historians too, you know, we don't have we don't have orders sitting in an archives somewhere that we can kind of go and and l

but that doesn't mean that george iii was a tyrant. you know?has put george's papers online now. the papers project. in it you find extraordinary things. when he was prince of wales, he was opposed to slavery. he writes us e says saying it needs to be held in exkrags. he never bought or sold a slave or owned a slave or invested in the companies that did that. and of course, he signed the legislation that abolished the slave trade and yet, he's constantly being seen as a lower moral plane. perhaps because of his mental illness, than the founding fathers. >> talk about the mental illness. >> well, that's a misunderstanding of the last 50 years. in fact, all the recent medical evidence pushes one to the conclusion, and i go into this in my preface, that it was, in fact, bipolar disorder type effective one, a form of manic depression. >> what do you think were his greatest achievements? >> i think possibly the monarchy. when you look at the queen today, you see somebody who like george iii was -- is financially prudent and personally frugal. and dri

you go to george floyd square. one of the murals is a huge mural of collin kaepernick taking a knee. it is very chilling, there is an idea of we tried expressing this is most peaceful possible terms in is a problem with police violence in this country and racism or it was ignored. or responded to with hostility and violence, you have to listen to people what they step forward with their concerns, you. the civil rights movement. 2 quick things about that. parallels to the kaepernick effect move. anyone who watched eyes on the prize knows part of all of civil rights activists who speak about the fact that -- the lynching of tilt in mississippi is something that changed their lives. a scar that could not be erased. it formd that they needed to be a part of the struggle going forward. i learned from a lest people that trayvon martin was the emmett tilt of this generation. it made me think about the fact, that trayvon martin was killed in 2012, that is 9 years ago, if you were 20 that happened when you were 11, if you a

but that doesn't mean george iii was a tyrant.st that he was a tyrant but to you extraordinarily wise and benign and ben any of sent. >> yes, we put the queen's private pages, georgia's papers project. in it you find extraordinary and surprising things. for example, when he was prince of wales in the 1860s, he was opposed to slavery. he writes essays saying it needs to be held in exel croatian and what a ludicrous thing it is to argue for slaves. he never bought or owned a slave or invested in companies that did that. of course, he signed the legislating to abolish slavery. yet he's seen being on no mohr plain perhaps because of his mental illness, and founding fathers. >> talk about the mental illness. that also is a complete misunderstanding the last 50 years. but in fact all of the recent medical evidence pushes one sort of to the conclusion -- and i go into this in my preface, it was in fact bipolar disorder and type effective one, a form of manic depression. >> what do you think were his greatest achievements? >> i think quit

coming up, a conversation about president george washington's farewell address. delivered 225 years ago. featured speakers are historians lindsay cheverinsky and joseph ellis and cnn's offavalon. >> my name is kevin butterfield and on behalf of the lady's association and the soerks that rescued mt. vernon and continues to protect and preserve it today, i want to welcome you to this conversation about george washington's farewell address. on september 19th, 1796, george washington announced to the world that he would not seek re-election to the presidency. his letter to friends and citizens offered some of the most thorough, thoughtful, even inspiring advice that has ever been gib to the american people. and more than a few genuine warnings were included there as well. but the hopes an fears that remain with us as a nation are discussed in the this now 225-year-old document. much of what we debate and discuss in 21 century. america politics is addressed here in one form or another. in recognition of this document we brought together an incredible lineup of talente

i mean george, you can finish it out here. i mean it's the golden rule, those that have the gold make the rules right. that. but it doesn't look like ok, yeah, that's right. what's it by common to all of this? is that nato and the western powers in favor. so session, when it works to their advantage, why don't they want the, well, the sea from boston? well, because that would strengthen the sobs in europe, and that will strengthen russia, which was always the goal. why? why that was so keen on breaking up the side of it because they were so you just love it as russians, little brother in europe, so that that's why they've always been attended to across any of aspirations. because for russia, the loan of the principals, their goal at the end of the day, we cover 2 major topics to ukraine and serbia and, and as far as the west concerned, they don't care about either as long as it's only a defeat for russia that's is their money. it's very colonial, isn't it? or a gentleman that's all the time we have on. i think, my guess in bud

george?fference. >>> want to turn to the breaking news in washington. the house voted to hold former trump chief of staff mark meadows in contempt of congress for defying a subpoena refusing to testify to the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. the justice department must decide whether to prosecute meadows. our chief white house correspondent jon karl is tracking the story. good morning, jon. >> reporter: good morning, george. meadows pleaded with his former colleagues not to go forward with this, but he is now the first former member of the house in american history to be held in contempt of congress. the vote was nearly party line. >> the resolution is adopted. >> reporter: only two republicans joined all democrats in holding the former white house chief of staff and former member of congress mark meadows in criminal contempt for defying a subpoena to testify before the committee investigating the january 6th riot. >> if you're making excuses to avoid cooperating wi

and look, battlefield guys, it is kind of like an old joke, you would want george mean -- george mead demanding your army, but sickles is the guy you would want to hang out with on saturday night. the personal level, meade and sickles, are very different people. sickles, a womanizer. i don't know if he is on her drinker like he is portrayed as, but certainly sickles is a guy who likes to have a good time. by most accounts, george mead is a solid, reliable, devoted, family man, of course you all know the west point graduate. if you have ever read meads correspondence, some of which was published in letters, some of that has been -- i encourage you all to get into philadelphia as you can, i see with meet a guy who has responsibility is weighing on him. his career, how to provide for his family, things of that nature. that is why, he is 47 years old, that is why he looks like he is 147, you know? maybe he could take a tip from sickles on how to lighten up a little bit. but they do not like each other. what happens is, very often these parties and these social events that i talked about,

i thought george brown was a businessman. he wrote things down. started to look for george brown records and is records were in a lot of different files. the johnson library would ngrequest files and he brings te files up to the desk and read boxes. each box is about 800 pages and one of the archivists the one who's been helping me the most over the years is cody who's been nice enough to come. you look at these boxes each crammed with papers and you really -- her heart sinks about how long it's going to take to look through these pages. whether consciously or not i'm in the habit of turning every page. i remember finding what they needed in some file and turning page after page in letter after letter that had no significance and all of a sudden there was a yellowed western union telegraph form and on it was signed by george brown dated a cover 19th, 1940. it said linden you were supposed to have the text by friday and on the bottom one of johnson's secretaries had written a reply, all the folks you talked to haven't been heard from. i'm not ackno

george, have ou responding that tomorrow. george, have you been _ responding that tomorrow.eorge, have you been following _ responding that tomorrow. george, have you been following the - responding that tomorrow. george, have you been following the story? | have you been following the story? yes, i have. it's fascinating how history— yes, i have. it's fascinating how history is— yes, i have. it's fascinating how history is continually rewritten. and i_ history is continually rewritten. and i think it resonates particularly at this time of year when _ particularly at this time of year when the — particularly at this time of year when the monarchy is obviously front and centre _ when the monarchy is obviously front and centre with the queen's speech and centre with the queen's speech and other— and centre with the queen's speech and other such traditions. yes, it's and other such traditions. yes, it's a nice _ and other such traditions. yes, it's a nice plot— and other such traditions. yes, it's a nice plot twist for the royal family — a nice plot twist for the royal famil .

but what that does for the family of george floyd i do not know. but that doesn't communities that deal with police occupation i do not know it does not do a lot we allow colin kaepernick was doing in inspiring people gutfeld actualized themselves. >> there is so much more that comes out of that historically then just saying we need to have an action plan that we go to to the police. that tends to lead to a group of leaders in the movement and giving the responsibility at basically negotiating the terms of people's oppression instead of having the masses of people come together. >> this confusion comes with how unfortunately too many people have history in this country. it is a collection of great men almost always white men very rarely women who are these exceptional people it's almost like they come down from planet awesome and created change and we are all observers, were not participants in the fight, were observers of the great people. that history is attractive to people for two reasons, one we live in a celebrity culture and anytime individu

george idolized his older brother. and what he had done, he was trying to build things around texas with his brother's name on it. there was a herman brown laboratory at rice university, etc. and so one day i'm in this little country town, it's a little town that looks like a scene out of a western set, with wooden buildings in the square. but on that square there was one leading two story building and on it said herman brown memorial library. i knew a lobbyist for george brown who had helped me, and i try to get him to talk to me before. he was partial, and said if i had an inspiration right at that moment, what to say to get to george brown to talk to me. i remember right on the square, putting a call to posh and i said i'd like to talk to george brown one more time. and i said, no, i am not going to do that. and i said, all you have to do is say one sentence to him. tell him it doesn't matter how many buildings after herman brown, no one is going to know who herman brown was unless he's in a book. so, posh made the

george?ay, steve, thanks. let's bring in president biden's chief medical adviser dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, thank you for joining us again this morning. the head of the w.h.o. says omicron is spreading faster than any previous variant. boris johnson, the british prime minister calls it a tidal wave. how would you characterize it? >> certainly what it is showing us in other countries and i believe soon in our own country, george, it has an extraordinary ability to transmit efficiently and spread. it has what we call a doubling time of about three days and if you do the math on that if you have just a couple of percentage of the isolates being omicron very soon it will be the dominant variant. we've seen that in south africa. we're seeing it in the uk. i'm absolutely certain that's what we'll be seeing here soon. >> it seems to be that way in new york city. seems to be spreading quite fast. we really are seeing a winter surge. what do we do about it? >> george, we need to do everything that