bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.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. and ocean that george w. bush was uniquely qualified to lead the free world whe

he personifies george h.w. bush almost as well as george h.w. bush. and he set the stage for what we are having and the rest of the chapters. >> andrew? >> a couple of stories that tell you a lot about bush, himself. bush was taught by his mother and his father not to use the word "i" if you could possibly do it. and that is hard, if you are a politician. and if you look at the stuff he has written, memos when he is president, and speeches, he doesn't use the word. because he said it is too egotistical and egocentric. he came back from a baseball game when he was in high school, and he hit a home run, and they won the game as a result of it. he said, how did the team do? and he said, well, don't you care about the home run? he said, i care about how the team did, george. not how you did. and he repeated that story very often. he had an apartment above the auditorium. that was also right next to the bush library. so, he went to that center, as you know, mark, in that conference. by the way, we had five pandemic conferences before covid-19. that is one

jim baker has the first essay, but he knows but george h. w. bush almost as well as george h. w. bush. he sets the stage for what we have throughout the rest of the chapters. >> andrew? >> a couple of stories that tell you a lot about bush himself. bush was taught by his mother and his father not to use the word i if he could possibly avoid it. it's hard to do that if you are a politician. if you watch, you listen, look at the stuff that he has written, memos as president and speeches, he doesn't use the word. because he said it is too egotistical and egocentric. he came back from a baseball game when he was in high school. he hit a home run and they won the game as a result of it. he ran in and told his mother, his mother said, that's very nice george. she said, that's very nice, george. how did the team do? he asked, don't you care about the home run? and she said, i care about how the team did. not how you did. he repeated that story many times. there was an auditorium in -- near three buildings of the bush school, library, and the conference center. you came and spoke there at

george w. bush son of a president, grandson of a senator, he passes the baton to alabama who i think i'm right spent one vacation with his father in his whole life. so george w. bush a man with a dominant father, coming from the highest reaches of the american elite, barack obama as mrs. obama said, you know, mixed race kid with a funny name, he becomes president of the united states. then to obama, to a new york real estate developer who is become this populous d constitutional figure and an irish catholic kid from delaware in pennsylvania. you have this american experience, not everybody, doesn't reflect all experience. they're all men. only one is a person of color. but when the history of this era is written, you could just do an immense amount of american history starting with al gore's concession to george w. bush to president obama to president trump and president biden. >> i want to hear more from the former president and the former first lady. here it is. >> these portraits have a special s

george w. bush moment where george w. sand, now i am so glad, because barack can now look at my portrait and say, what would george do? you can argue, to insider-y or club the. but there is a kind of ethos that, ultimately, helps the country. if the people in the pinnacle of power have a self deprecating character personally. and the kind of genuine humility, which is to submit to the rule of law which is what their oath, if you believe that oaths matter at all. it is why we swear to god. their oaths are to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states and to basically execute the office of the president of the united states and a key part of that an execution of duty it is to obey the rule of law and, accept reality, but the common good again above your own personal gain as much as you can. he saw today, to people who do that, obama and biden. >> and a respect for the office. and then appreciation. and also respecting the tradition that go along with holding the office. these

as we know, george w. bushsident and much of what came to be part of no child left behind reflected things that were being done in texas as well as other places and it really did, for more than a decade, shaped what was happening at the local level. host: rick, as part of his platform, george w. bush ran on passing a law like this. changes happened with the law. we will get into that. tell us how it was received at the time in terms of the policy changes it made. mr. hess: it was modeled on what they did in texas. it was a bipartisan effort over 10 or 12 years. no child left behind, think of it as the high point of this school reform coalition that took shape in the early 1980's. it really came to fruition in the clinton, bush, and obama years and has largely unraveled. no child left behind did a lot of different stuff. it is one of those big fat laws with 100 pages but it did three main things. back in the late 1960's after that initial clip of them talking about it, at the time they referenced lyndon b. johns

you go back for example i remember watching a speech michael the caucus made when bob dole and george h bushent through nomination of some of the great lines are here at times and is listening to do caucus specifically assert a speech and said bob dole says george h.w. bush isn't much of a lady for george h.w. bush says bob dole wasn't much of a leader at i agree with both of these two guys, neither of them as much of a leader. that is just kind of a great line. you can only find that through spieth c-span i would not have had this book had it not been for c-span. abettors of is the appropriate to dedicate it to c-span. so it's nothing i've never set out out loud my favorite part of watching c-span's during a senate vote for you could see all the interactions on the senate floor, that's a lot of fun to watch. i spent hours watching that i am afraid. in the great american political trivia challenge you have a whole section on political insults. >> yes. >> host: why did you include that? >> i find them absolutely fascinating. politicians are very good in terms of being able to sometimes be ver

these countries were targeted by the george h w bush, or george w bush, the senior vice president of ronald reagan and bribed with hundreds of millions of dollars. and these monies were given the countries in exchange for their acquiescence and their submission to american military and economic and political objectives. me a ring of nato military bases is being formed around russia. the u. s. and nato have over 600 military base as well to wide. russia has just 18, but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning this russian soviets into this dangerous bo, you man, that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy to create this image. it. soviets as out for world conquest, which was not the case then for now with nato should have died, but they will give it meaning. it is about infected, created by nato nato's business machine. because you must remember, if nato disbanded shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in lodge obs companies would lose millions and millions, they'd only have one yacht instead of 2 yards each. there. oh dear, wou

ah, george bush still goes stock still our boy scouts and tries to inspire them with ethics. these people should be in jail under any reasonable circumstances. they're not. so does it still happen? well, if i was an operator in the field and i wanted to get a promotion and i didn't have any moral sense and they told me, you'll never be held accountable for this. well, i guess i would be good to go ahead and do it. even though it doesn't work. yeah. and you know, you mentioned the media and the role that they play earlier that they played earlier. and it also goes to show that they've also played a role in rehabilitating on these members of the bush administration. that took part in this and allow that to happen. now when it comes to really the long term impact of all of this, how do you see that playing out? and what is the message right now that the u. s. government as a whole is sending by not only covering up these horrific acts that were committed, not only not going after any one and not sending or any one to jail. but now saying the american people don't have the right

senior was a pipe lament. — george bush senior was a pipe lament.now what you call it but that was her gift, she asked her piper— it but that was her gift, she asked her piper to commission one, especially— her piper to commission one, especially for him. whenever she had visitors _ especially for him. whenever she had visitors at _ especially for him. whenever she had visitors at state banquets, after dinner. — visitors at state banquets, after dinner, the ritual always began with the piper— dinner, the ritual always began with the piper coming in. wherever she was in _ the piper coming in. wherever she was in the — the piper coming in. wherever she was in the world, the pipes were a very important part of her life. we are very important part of her life. - are expecting the royal party to leave st giles�* cathedral within the next minute or so. the queen�*s coffin, which will be carried out by the bearer party before its journey to edinburgh airport, it is found by the royal regiment of scotland. and the royal regiment of scotland. and the guard o

after listening to george w. bush'sening of september 11, the next morning, the savinkin family goes to manhattan in the morning, when we got up, we realized that we had to make a leaflet, because we had to hang these leaflets that way. in general, we began to quickly draw up a leaflet, olga she in general, the schedule of the designer. she helped. in general, then we had to multiply leaflets. in general, we are somewhere around 12:00 in the afternoon. we came to manhattan and started walking around hospitals, started putting up these flyers. that's what the pictures are of what he was wearing. and here is the phone number of the parents in the morning. until the night we wandered around the hospitals in search of our beloved vlad, their youngest daughter called all the hotlines to find her brother, but i had two jobs, and they told me that i needed to uh hmm be sure that mom and dad ate something if will not come home, and so far they have not been. i called, and for hours, days, weeks. i called all day, and in any num

install puppets and that are, they're very susceptible to influence kurdistan, georgia and ukraine bush or george w bush. the senior vice president arrived with hundreds of millions of dollars and the exchange for their in to american military and economic and political objectives. a ring of nato military bases is being formed around russia. the u. s. and nato have over $600.00 military base is world wide. russia has just 18. but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning this russian soviets into this danger is boy, man that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy to create this image of the soviets about world conquest, which was not the case, then for now, ah, nato should have died, but they were given, meaning. it is about infected, created by, by nato nato's business machine. because you must remember, if nato were disbanded, shareholders in united states and elsewhere in large arms companies would lose millions and millions. they'd only have one year instead of 2 yards each. there are, there wasn't that be terrible. there's a simple method to put

of this conspiracy, maybe unwittingly, the republican party embraced him, and george h. w. bushion events. so again and again and again we see the republican party embracing far-right extremism -- >> yet. >> and i think with trump, it's not an aberration, it's a continuation escalation. and we get back to our dna metaphor. the dna has always been there. and that is what i try to show with this book. >> so, let me ask you, you talk about their embrace of these lies and conspiracies and maybe this is a broader question about why, why does the republican party embrace these unpopular conspiracy theories and lies? is it to avoid having conversations about policies because they do not have any? or is it because it is a form of manipulating the masses and easy to get people to buy into these conspiracy theories then debate policies? >> well, it's, you know -- excuse me, it's unclear how popular they are. now, barry goldwater got killed in a 64 election, and trump lost the last election. but he got more votes than when he ran in 2016. i think what they see is a significant part of thei

but i've i've always like bill clinton and hillary, but i felt very close to george w bush. george w bush. it was interesting getting to know him. but he told me that he knew of my friendship as father. and so we we got along well, even though we disagreed on things when he nominated me to be a delegate. every year there's two. every other year there's senators. i asked him when he signed his name on the commission. it is handshake. he said, hell, no, it anything we get you out of town. barack obama. oh, we became the best of friends almost immediately. in the senate, we trash talk each other. in the senate, jim and loved it. i was very, very good friends and i always felt that even if he disagreed with me, i sit down, talk to him. you also endorsed him at a key point in that first day, in that first presidential race. yeah. and when i term i right now a scuba diving with marcel and that called him and tom i was going on endorser he said well thank they says to myself tell him to wear a hat down there so he doesn't get that bald head sunburn. i said, i think i will call john

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i am proud to sign this monster. >> essentially, george bush is covering the biggest overdraft in historyerica economically. >> listen carefully to this number. 500 billion dollars. that is the latest estimate of what the failure of hundreds of federally insured savings and loans will eventually cost american taxpayers. >> can you make bail? >> the once rapid growth of keating's failed savings have been fueled by the sale of a quarter million dollars worth of uninsured and now worthless bonds. the majority were bought by seniors, many losing life savings. >> charles keating was convicted in two trials, but both verdicts were overturned and then he pled guilty to avoid a retrial and was allowed out for time served. >> they were condemning wall street, pretty quickly. >> milk and pleads guilty. it might be the largest individual case of fraud to ever rock wall street. the case ended in a plea bargain with the government. >> judge kimball said these crimes merited his removal from society. she sentence the one-time king of wall street to 10 years in prison. >> just under two years. quite pos

and then with george bush senior with british prime minister margaret thatcher and that's how those who surrounded mikhail sergeevich all the years today remember his role in many world events. one of the most open politicians in the world. perhaps the most open policy, and he was no different. in the sphere, in general, from my public personality, i remember that life is a person of great intelligence, except for you. this was a man to clean up to work with. i left once in the second year, because i thought that i gave out help, personally, i now speak only for myself. uh, gorbachev is grateful for the life that i have lived since then, 35 years of rich, interesting , open and very informative life that he did not succeed in what he wanted, partly, of course, the responsibility lies with him, but by no means only and when we are now in the situation we are in in just 6 years. he changed world politics is a unique event, when a person for 6 years. becoming a leader can change politics around the world he was a man who got a lot a lot negative pressure on him. nevertheless, he did not le

it was a crusade as president george w bush once called out. we've never seen this kind of evil before, but the evil doers have never seen the american people. it's started with the white house forging alliances on the airwaves over in print and in intellectual circles. one of the intellectuals who was brought into the white house to help frame the war on terror is bernard lewis are not. louis is famous for coining the term clash of civilizations. they want to turn this into a religious war. a war of islam against what they see, see the world of the unbelievers and in the world of the believers, obviously the americans come 1st. another person who was brought in is freed secaria. at the time was the editor, the international edition of new suite of the war takes place and it goes well, which i think it probably will. you will also see at the end of this war that saddam hussein was indeed a murderous tire. and there will be stories that will be evidence and in that sense, you know, you will, you will. this will, will look better in history perha

a george bush bottles rose celebration king charles and his wife camila made their way through the palace gates for the 1st time as king and queen consort. there's no doubt that to many the new king has big shoes to fill. king chose the 3rd. i will obviously roll riding ah, to the very best of the visibility, i would like to thought about the clean. i think i was very, very special on it and she wasn't only the longest raining more, not infrastructure of i think she was the best, but more not likely in british history. buckingham palace announced that charles will be officially proclaimed king on saturday a moment. he is prepared for his entire life. many hope then you monarch will leave out to his mother's image by keeping a steady hand at the helm as the u. k. now, gates to tadja lawrence times reporter karl aspen was in front of buckingham palace in london, where many people have gathered to confront the end of a long era. you'd have to be in your seventy's to remember a time before queen elizabeth. she's been round for that long, and this really did seem like one of those days where w

george w. bush a local school. i remember that we had to get up very early to come to school and i remember that i went out and everything looked. like in a movie, as bely's press secretary will tell later at home oriflation, that morning you will, as always, go for a morning run, then get acquainted with the documents prepared for him and at exactly 8:30 his cortege left for the planned school visit. yes, the disaster remained 16 minutes a few minutes later, when the cortege drove up to the school. i received a message from brian. bravo from the white house, in which he warned me that the plane crashed into the twin towers. bush enters the school building and talks to the head teacher. at this moment, the assistant tells him in new york something terrible happened. he was told, and i was standing right behind him, that a small twin-engine turboprop aircraft. it seems to have crashed into one of the twin towers in new york. here is what i knew and knew. he, when he entered the school class at the sa

that was every joke in the 90s or george bush jokes and half of us didn't do george bush jokes.y wanted to make fun of obama so i blame obama for ruining it. if you're out there, i want to work for these places, i don't care. all right, i'll move on. we will always have this, it was exactly what i thought it would be and we did it anyway. [laughter] what more can i say? coming up, california bracing for a major heatwave. telling residents to help conserve energy by not charging their electric cars but they also want to ban gas powered vehicles. it is a focus wrong? daniel turner is here next to discuss. ♪ ♪ how is this for heat lightning? california bracing for a brutal heatwave report say temperatures could hit 115 degrees on sunday. that could overload the state power grid and officials are urging drivers to own electric vehicles to limit their charging. this and the same with knuckleheads band gas stars cars starting in 2035. >> it scary but what if we really need to go somewhere and you have an emergency? >> sometimes you just cannot do without. you have to do your work. >>

remember george bush and katrina? ian, the latest battleground in presidential politics. third hour of varney starting now. mercedes schlapp is with us. they may be cooperating, desantis and biden but this set up a showdown on a presidential level, does it not? >> it could. a lot of the media is paying attention to how governor desantis is responding to the storm. is front and center, very aggressive on top of the response for hurricane ian which is so destructive but at the same time you see both men putting aside politics to make sure the people of florida are getting the help they need. these moments of natural disaster can make or break a leader especially a president and the presidents always trying to maneuver to figure out what is the best time to go down and visit those who have been impacted by the storm. president george bush got it wrong when he came to hurricane katrina because he said don't come too early and it backfired on the president. it is a balancing act for presidents to figure out how can i be the empathize are in chief and help the people being impa

from george w. bush and laura, laura and i were honored to have known her majesty queen also bit, a woman of great intellect, charm and wit, spending time and having tea with her majesty and her corgis are among our finest memories. she led england through dark moments for a brighter tomorrow. those are all of those statements in part. we also have one from the carter family. rosaline and i extend our condolences to the family of queen elizabeth and we join the millions around the world of mourning a remarkable leader. i have pages and pages of statements from former presidents and first ladies admiring queen elizabeth, just reminding how much of american history she's experienced as well, how many presidents she met, how many times she has been here to the united states. she celebrated the bicentennial with us, from our war that we fought with england to get away. i mean, it was despite the initial relationship that we had, the breakaway, they have been our closest ally and queen elizabeth has been one

. >> george w. bushthat meeting her, spending time with her, having time with her, was one of the highlights of being president. one of the best experiences of his life. she was beloved not just for being the queen but for who she was as a person. so what does that mean for now king charles and his wife camilla who will be the queen consort? will they be accepted by the public? >> i would like to distinguish between places where the queen was head of state, that are not the british isles, and britain itself. i think -- i can't see -- it's not a moment where i can see a huge rising against now king charles with in britain. what i think is very different is that we are at a moment where british history is coming under a lot of scrutiny, partly imperial history, and the queen was head of the former dominion, canada, australia, she's had caribbean countries, she's the queen of jamaica -- whether it's going to be fine to continue to have that link with the royal family, i think, at a moment when say, question

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[laughter] >> george h.w. bush>> this is now the fourth time i have had the honor of proposing a toast to the president of the united states. in the very place where my father once proposed a toast to president roosevelt. >> and george w. bush. >> on my first visit to washington in 1951, your predecessor president truman welcomed me to the white house. >> today george w. bush writes having tea with her majesty and corgis is among our fondest memories of the presidency. the obamas visited the queen in london. >> the united states remains our most important ally. and our two nations contribute to the security and prosperity of our peoples. and of the world through shared national interest. >> today, barack and michelle obama write: just when we were negotiating as a president and first lady she welcomed us to the stage open arms and extraordinary generosity. and donald trump, who once described dinner with the queen like this: >> we had automatic chemistry. >> now says what a grand and beautiful lady she was. there w

i changed political parties when george bush ran for office.ow i will be voting for president trump or president desantis. look at them going after him. they are now hurting him with legal crimes. you're not just going after one person -- which has been treated like no other individual in the history of this nation. >> okay. we will move on to independent line. i'll, watertown, tennessee. hello. >> i want you to make a note of how you treated the last three colors. the gentleman that was sarcastic, you challenged him. the lady who said there is nothing behind the numbers, you challenged her. the democrat said he voted for trump, he challenged him. my point is that it's a very -- i've been watching c-span for 20 or 25 years. look at the topic. biden falling poll numbers. we have you seen that one? no. we have the biden rising poll numbers. never will we see biden's falling poll numbers. when someone likes the claim, greta asked him where you get your information? very combative. the lady yesterday, she said, just defended, we all know conservati

joining us now is former deputy attorney general under president george bush donald aier. know you don't agree with this decision, what did you think of the ruling? >> well, i think the easiest way to kind of describe it in general terms is that it's a ruling that resolves every doubt in favor of donald trump. and completely ignores critical facts that support the government's position. i would say it's really an unprecedented ruling in the context of a search warrant and review of a search warrant return. and, of course, you know, some would justify it simply because it's a former president. but we have a tradition in this country that no person is above the law. and when you apply the law even handedly, you don't get to the result that this judge reached. >> is this a judgment saying in fact that donald trump is above the law? >> well, i don't think she would say that. i think she's trying to reach a judgment. and i think if there's any defense to it, it's the defense that there's a lot of public distrust. so, she wants to put in place a process that would sort of give t

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