it looks as though ronald reagan is going to pick gerald ford to be his vice president, not george h.w. bushorge said, this isn't fair, dad, it isn't fair to you. his dad tells jeb, "what are you talking about fair? nobody owes us a damn thing." fast forward eight years george h.w. bush is about to pick his own vice president. he learns donald trump has mentioned his availability as a vice presidential candidate. bush thinks the overture strange and unbelieable. on his friend james baker's short list for vp, clint eastwood. this book is for political junkies and it will -- >> go ahead, make your day. ♪ is that coffee? yea, it's nespresso. ♪ i want in. ♪ you're ready. get ready to experience a cup above. is that coffee? nespresso. what else? can a a subconscious. mind? a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be...alive? (patrick 2) pretty great.ke to be the boss of you? (patrick 1) how about a 10% raise? (patrick 2) how about 20? (patrick 1) how about done? (patrick 2) that's the kin

this hour, george h.w. bush will take the stawill -- george bush will take the stage and make some comments made by his father. he slams two of the most notable figures from his son's, donald rumsfeld. watch. >> i accept your nom nag for president. >> this is george herber walker bush unleashed hp sharing thoughts from his time in office to his family. >> this admin is not going to rest. >> to his son's presidency. >> he handed over four years of diaries in the white house with in strings attached. >> and he said to you, call them like you see them. you're gonna sort it out. >> among the many revelations bush 41 is bluntry critical of the men who served his son in the white house. he calls dick cheney iron ass and former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld an air gapt fellow. but perhaps the biggest surprise, bush is critical of his own son for his hot rhetoric. >> we've never heard him criticize his son before as president. why do you think he went public now? >> i think with the distance of history, he believ

but george h.w. bush is never really a conservative republican. he did have some conservative plrepublicans in h administration, as we particularly saw a fellow named dick cheney who becomes his secretary of defense. george w. bush as i've said really is a hybrid. his political ideology is so deeply invested in his personal born again christianity and he carries interestingly enough some of his dad's moderate republican roots but he lived in texas and when you live in texas as karl rove did is moved him to the right of who he had been before that. jeb bush is an interesting guy. jeb bush is i would say had been the most moderate of the three of them. he's married, of course -- his wife is hispanic. makes a big difference in who you are as understanding diverse cultures and understanding whether it be prejudice. he lived in a very different world than either his father or his brother. he has, however, moved to the right to capture as we have talked about, you know, you move to the right to capture iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. i don't know je

a new biography of george h.w. bush. the material he drew from was a trove of the former president's private audio diaries which we'll hear much more of later. >> i first met president bush in 1998 and i remember thinking even then, 17 years ago, that george bush was a much more complicated and interesting figure than most people might think. i was looking at this as his story and his times about this remarkable life, decade after decade of service, and i really believe that he was the last of the kind. >> the same year bush lost his daughter he co-founded the oil company zapata petroleum. >> he finds the most adventuresome element of the business and becomes an oil man. >> bush now the father of four boys and the long girl he longed for after robin's tragic death wanted to serve in the political world. and now george in 1964 ran for the same office in texas. >> george bush, the happy family man is now george bush republican candidate for the united states senate. >> he lost his senate race. not one to give up, he ran fo

it's a george h.w. bush who felt things more deeply than he ever let on. >> i would like to hear what you said the night he's speaking into his tape recorder. your mother asleep in the next room. and these are his reflections. >> your thoughts? >> oh, wow. i never really understood how much the defeat stung him, because he kept it hidden. he bottled up this sense of defeat. >> the loss his father felt, the younger bush says, was not just his defeat by bill clinton, but something deeper. >> dad really didn't accept the baby boomer view of duty and honor. and therefore, to be beaten by the first baby boomer president, was upsetting to him. >> george herbert walker bush was born on june 12th, 1924, in milton, massachusetts, to a patrician family with high expectations and a firm sense of public duty. his father, prescott, was a serious and forceful figure, who would become a united states senator. his mother, dorothy, taught her son to strive for excellence, but never to show off while doing so. >> one of the f

that seems to be true of george h.w. bushebb when he was voted out of office. but reputation is a funny thing. the further away we get from the bush presidency and the more perspective we have the better it looks. >> george bush was an incredible leader. he led by making decisions, tough decisions, good decisions. he was a results-oriented president. >> when he took the oath of office on friday january 20th, 1989 nuclear armageddon was a possibility. and when he left office it was not. not a bad record that. >> he went out of his way to show respect to other humans whether they were americans or in his diplomatic work or as president. he was extraordinary in showing humility. and through humility in leading. >> i argue he's the greatest one-term president in the nation's history. >> he had principles but he also had common sense. and when you look at both how he managed foreign policy and when you look at how he handled domestic policy in each case he was thoughtful restrained and made good decisions. and i think that ultimat

events, but there may have been no more momentous period in the last century than the years george h.w. bush was in office. >> george bush was his own man, and he did things particularly, i think, in the foreign policy sphere that were somewhat different, perhaps that might have been happened under president reagan. >> one thing he knew he would have to deal with from the start, the cold war, which had been the simple fact of american foreign policy for decades. but as bush took office, something was happening overseas. there appeared to be tears in the iron curtain. >> in eastern europe, borders long closed by communism were opening up. then in november, the unthinkable happened. the symbol of the cold war, the berlin wall, fell. it was a great moment, but a dangerous one, too. how would mikhail gorbachev, leader of the soviet union, react to the dissolution of its empire? >> bush insists he would handle it with grace and dignity. he won't, stick it in gorbachev's eye. gorbachev later said that bush's controlled reaction to the fall of the wall helped him avoid a hardliner counter reaction.

meechum says george h.w. bush believes that cheney was pushed to a harder line by his conservative wife and daughter. >> i think bush 41 suggested that perhaps liz cheney and lynn cheney had had an influence on vice president cheney. >> we smile about it, we laugh about it, same with my daughter, with liz. but my family was not conspireing to somehow turn me into a tougher, more hard-nosed individual. i got there all by myself. >> cheney is reading meechum's book in which the 41st president calls the vice president iron ass. cheney sees the comment as more of a compliment than criticism. >> take it as mark of pride. the attack on 9/11 was worse than pearl harbor. in terms of the amount of people killed and damage done. that, i think a lot of people believed then and still believe to this day. that i was aggressive in defending, in carrying out what i thought were the right policies. >> meechum also writes in the book that quote bush 41 believed cheney and his hard-charging staff had fuelled a global impression of

it is a george h.w. bush who felt things more deeply than he ever let on. >> i'd like you to hear what he said on the night he began speaking into his little tape recorder. your mother asleep in the next room. these are his reflections. >> no, the job is not finished. and that kills me. our kids were absolutely magnificent. boys telling me, we're proud of you, dad. we're very proud of you. and i'm thinking, they go back to their communities. yes, their father was president and all that. but a failed president. >> your thoughts. >> well, i never really understood how much the defeat stung him because he kept it hidden. he bottled up this sense of defeat. >> the loss his father felt, the younger bush says, was not just his defeat by bill clinton but something deeper. >> dad really didn't accept the baby boomer view of duty and honor and therefore to be beaten by the first baby boomer president was upsetting to him. ♪ >> george herbert walker bush was born on june 12, 1924, in milton, massachusetts to a patricia

and i think it hurt the president having his iron-ass view of everything. >> george h.w. bushald rumsfeld did not look each other for 40 years. they were competitors. >> he wrote a biography about bush. there could be several reasons he is breaking his science now. >> is the older father thinking i want to protect my son by making it clear there were maligned influences. >> if you were the son you don't want your father to say your administration was affected by bad influences it moons you were -- means you were weak. it means you gave in. bush senior revealed that donald trump once expressed interest in being his runningmate. bush says he found that "strange and unbelievable." my name is monica joyce, i am the founder and director of slam dunk for diabetes. slam dunk for diabetes is the only day basketball camp in the country and we provide the opportunity for children with pre-diabetes and type 1 and type 2 diabetes to get together, play ball and to learn to manage their diabetes. [olivia] when i first got to the camp, it wasn't like oh it's so sad, all the kids have diabete

george w. bush, exphaib. john mccain. it's a very strange moment, george h.w. bush's career began dealing with extreme is, with the john bush society. at home in nashville, could george h.w. bush get nominated today? i said he damn near didn't make it the first time. so i think my view of jeb at this point is that he's a lot like his dad but he's got to show more of the competitive streak that his father had, but masked pretty well, that his brother had and didn't mask at all. >> john meecham's book, we're going to have more of my introwf interview with john meecham tomorrow on this program. ali velshi is at the top of the hour. ali. >> too many of debt strapped graduates struggle with job opportunities in their fields of study or they're getting lower pay than they expected to get. as a result they are taking longer to pay down their student debt or worse, they're defaulting on it. we're going to focus tonight on soaring tuition he at america's law schools. as you know law students have the potential to earn a lot of money over their careers but they could just

century ended on november 3, 1992, when bill clinton, the first baby boomer president defeats george h.w. bush the last world war ii president. and bush really just doesn't quite get it. not in the sense that we all remember he was out of-- seemed out of touch about the economy. that, that-- that's not true. in fact, he knew the economy was going to be a hugely important issue, but he says to his tape recorded diary by himself, sitting in the houstonian hotel, "duty, honor, country-- i always thought that's what americans were made of, but, quite plainly, it's not." he was just subsumed with anguish that he had not been able to finish the job. you get him to talk about how he was uncomfortableÑi with too muh hawkishness. he didn't like the axis of evil. >> right, he said, historically, i don't think that will benefit anything. he did not like the swaggering rhetoric of his son's administration. >> woodruff: and, and-- and then the dick cheney. >> right. >> woodruff: you know, who he, turns out, felt was-- had too much influence in his son's administration. >> george h.w. bush said that he beli

after iowa was on to new hampshire, where george h.w. bush just blanketed the state of new hampshire with really, really negative ads against bob dole, bob dole had kicked bush's butt in iowa. bush ended up kicking bob dole's butt in new hampshire. and there was just miserable an tip thi between them. in the book, he quotes diary entries in which george bush calls bob dole a no good son of a -- thing that rhymes with witch. quoting, bob dole, he's a desperate, mean man and people see it. i'll try and be gracious, but he has been a no-good son of a bleep about me, hitting me at every turn, bitter, jealous, and class-conscious hatred. and it's not like these two guys, you know, kept their feelings about each other confined to their diaries. they were happy to talk about it in person and occasionally on camera. >> mr. vice president, if you look right down at that monitor, you'll see the man that you've beaten, senator bob dole who is standing by in his headquarters. anything that you would like to say to him at this point? >> no, just wish him

george w. bush -- or george h.w. bush at one point conceded is he might have mellowed. he's talking about gay marriage when he says that. but embedded in all these comments is perhaps the most damning assessment of the george w. bush administration when he talks about the rhetoric. he says i do worry about some of the rhetoric that was out there, some of his maybe and some of it the people around him. hot rhetoric is pretty easy to get the headlines but it doesn't necessarily solve the diplomatic problem. then he references the axis of evil and says he think that might be historically proved to not be benefiting anything and there is the most damning assessment of the bush administration. >> frankly, it is not a huge surprise in the elder bush, he was the consummate diplomat. he was surrounded by james baker and brent scowcroft who were two of the most able diplomats we've had recently. he put together the coalition of the first gulf war and of course brent scowcroft is maybe his best friend and has already said that cheney who emerged as vice president is not it the che

the george h.w. bush you don't know. >> we think we know what we want to know about george herbert walker bush. my job was to give you a bush you didn't know. >> a conversation with pulitzer prizewinning biographer john meacham. >>> there's nothing short of a movement on america's college campuses. protests over racial discrimination, insensitivity and a lass of inclusiveness spreading. students are demanding change and on many campuses they're getting it. today, another college lowered resigned under pressure. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> apologies were not enough to resolve the complaints of racial insensitivity at claremont mckenna college in california. >> we require greater diversity in our faculty and staff. [ cheers ] >> outrage erupted on the campus after the dean of students responded to an article written by a mexican students who said she felt marginalized by the school. spelman sent the student an e-mail that read in part, we are working on how to better serve students, especially those who don

it's a george h.w. bush who felt things more deeply than he ever let on. >> i'd like o you to hear what he said on the night he was speaking into his little tape recorder, your mother asleep in the next room. these are his reflections. >> the job is not finished. it kills me. our kids are absolutely magnificent. always telling me we're proud you have dad. we're proud of you. i'm thinking, they go back to their communities, their father was president and all of that. >> your thoughts. >> i never really understood how much the defeat stung him because he kept it hidden. he bottled up this sense of defeat. >> the loss his father felt, the younger bush said, was not just he defeat by bill clinton but something deeper. >> dad didn't really accept the baby boomer view of duty and honor. to be beaten by the first baby boomer president was upsetting to him. he was born to a family with high expectations, the firm sense of public duty. his father was a serious and forceful figure who would become a united states sena

a new biography of the former president george h.w. bush, now 91 years old and fighting a form of parkinson's disease, reveals some amazing details including that bush privately referred to his 1988 democratic presidential opponent michael dukakis as "midget nerd." but the bigger muse was bush's scathing comments to biographer john meacham about former vice president dick cheney and former defense secretary donald rumsfeld, two of the key figures in his son george w. bush's administration. cheney built his own empire and asserted too much hard-line influence within george w. bush's white house according to george h.w. bush. while rumsfeld "served the president badly and was an arrogant fellow who wouldn't listen to others." in the book george h.w. bush also criticizes his son, george w. bush, for at times using overly aggressive language as president including when he coined the term "axis of evil." in a statement responding to the revelations w. bush stood by cheney and rumsfeld while cheney told fox news he took george h.w. bush's critici

meechum says george h.w. bushelieves that cheney was pushed to a harder line by his conservative wife and daughter. >> i think bush 41 suggested that perhaps liz cheney and lynn cheney had had an influence on vice president cheney. >> we smile about it, we laugh about it, same with my daughter, with liz. but my family was not conspireing to somehow turn me into a tougher, more hard-nosed individual. i got there all by myself. >> cheney is reading meechum's book in which the 41st president calls the vice president iron ass. cheney sees the comment as more of a compliment than criticism. >> take it as mark of pride. the attack on 9/11 was worse than pearl harbor. in terms of the amount of people killed and damage done. that, i think a lot of people believed then and still believe to this day. that i was aggressive in defending, in carrying out what i thought were the right policies. >> meechum also writes in the book that quote bush 41 believed cheney and his hard-charging staff had fuelled a global impression of am

. >> during george h.w. bush's presidency, barbara bush used the office of first lady to promote literacy, raise awareness about aids and homelessness. she earned her way into the history books by becoming only the second first lady besides abigail adams to be both the wife and mother of a president. barbara bush, this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series "first ladies" influence an image. examining the public and private lives of those that field first lady and their influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama. at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3 sundays. >> all weekend long, american history tv is joining our time warner cable partners to showcase the history of syracuse, new york. to learn more about the city's honored 15 four, visit c-span.org/citiestour. we look at the history of syracuse. >> the third national women's rights convention was held in syracuse in 1852. matilda gage is 26 at the time and had 4 children already. she learns that th

george w. bush had gone to george h.w. sh and said, if you don't toughen up, you're not going to win this race, so go ahead with the willie horton ad. susan: and ultimately, successful. they reached the white house. and it's interesting to note -- we were talking about this before we started -- we're doing this program live on the 20th of january, 2014, and it is today exactly the 25th anniversary of the bushes coming into the white house. the bush years -- and we have, as we do in each of these programs, a still of the important things that happened during those four years in the white house just to put it on the record books. and they include his "no new taxes" pledge. the savings-and-loan crisis also happened during that time period. of course, the first iraq war, which was known as desert storm. tiananmen square also happened during that time. and for many of your interests, the end of the cold war happened during the bush years. so on the national stage, so much going on. what was happening domestically during that tim

campaign has just hired jon kraushar to overhaul the debating and tv skills of the latest of george h.w. bush'ss to make a run for the presidency. ailes and kraushar were seen as critical to getting bush into the white house in 1988. can the exact same guy and the exact same type of training also do it for jeb 30 years down the road? if the jeb bush for president campaign is going to turn around, the place they are at now from which they are trying to execute this turn is much farther off course than they imagined it to be. latest polling his him in fifth place. latest iowa polling has him in seventh place. the latest iowa number includes him losing in iowa to bobby jindalal who has been seen as sort of a lost cause candidate in that none of the last three presidential debates have even let bobby jindalal onto the main stage. he's a permanent fixture at the kids table but he right now in this latest poll is ahead of jeb bush in iowa. jeb bush has been in single digits in 21 of the last 24 polls in the republican race, in single digits in the last nine straight national polls, not in double digi

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campaign of vice president george h.w. bush. he speaks here at the florida republican party convention where he's introduced by his son, jeb bush. vice president bush won the florida primary in 1988 on his way to the republican nomination, defeating michael dukakis to become the nation's 41st president. >> where's george? come on up. also introducing the next candidate is my brother george bush and my daughter noelle bush. our next speaker is a man of tremendous courage, conviction, and experience. i'd like to talk a little bit about courage first. he was the youngest navy pilot in world war ii. he got his wings when he was 19 years old, flew 58 combat missions, has three air medals, including the distinguished cross. his courage and complete disregard for his own safety both in pressing home attack in the face of intense and accurate anti-aircraft fire and continuing in his dive on the target after being hit and his plane on fire were all times keeping with the highest traditions of the united states naval service. also his cou

. >> there's a new book coming out this tuesday a biography of george h.w. bush. it's a great book, if you haven't read it, you should. i found interesting one section in which george h.w. bush in 1988 is trying to decide who is going to be his running mate, his vice president, and it says that you let lee atwater know that you were available. do you remember this? >> lee was a friend of mine. he was a great guy. he had an absolute friend. he asked me about it. he said would you consider it? it was early in my career. i was doing well with the building stuff and building buildings in manhattan and other places, frankly, i remember it very vividly. lee said you would be great. and i said i don't know, lee, check it out. take a look and if it works, i guess i certainly could consider it. it never went much further. >> the book describes george h.w. bush as if feeling his son president bush was ill served by dick cheney and donald rumsfeld. what is your take on that? >> i think it was very tough. i was very, very surprised to see it because, you know, the father is re

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senator sanders, thanks very much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >>> up next, former george h.w. bush blasting his sons in a new book. author jon meacham. >>> back now with that new biography of president george h.w. bush making big headlines this week. pulitzer prize winner jon meacham was granted unprecedented access to the president for the book. the former president's first public critique of george w.'s presidency, tough words for dick cheney and donald rumsfeld and the rhetoric of his son. >> states like these and terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil. >> axis of evil didn't like that. >> he thought the swaggering image of bush 43 administration, was a diplomatic problem. he held cheney and rumsfeld to some degree responsible for it. but gentlemanly, and honestly, intellectually honestly, he did tell me ultimately it's >> reporter: bush told meacham that cheney is hard-line, a man who built his own empire. also goes against his code as vice president. >> i think it's fair to say that dick cheney saw it himself as much more of an operational officer. of the government. and

of course george h.w. bush is 91.that this is, you know, the record for history. he was going to talk to his biography jon meacham in a very candid way, and he decided he wasn'toing to hold back anymore. he says it in a way that's meant to be supportive of his son. he says it in a sense that he thinks his son was ill served by vice president cheney and secretary rumsfeld. he also allows of course no one is more responsible than the president of the united states. in that case, george bush. >> he talks about george w. bush but also in the book talks about his other son, join bueb bush. why would they come out with this now? jeb bush is in the middle of running. what does he say about jeb in the book? >> it's an interesting question. there's not a lot of jeb in the book. a little bit here. in 1992, urged his father to replace dan quayle on the ticket for his re-election. but he also supported dan quayle on some of the things that the vice president had said. most notably, his comments about murphy brown, you remember, t

swain: this is jeffrey engel's book, "china diary of george h.w. bush and you're working on another right now. what's that? mr. engel: yes, working on a full study of george bush in the end of the cold war. and i would argue that, in fact, more happens during bush's four years in office on the international scene and he was confronted with more difficult decisions than any other president during four years, with the possible exception of franklin roosevelt during the height of world war ii. and these are issues that today look a little bit simpler in retrospect. the end of the cold war seems somewhat obvious and almost determined. and the gulf war seems obvious. of course we were going to win a massive victory in that conflict. at the time, nobody knew how these were going to turn out. and president bush, i think, really adopted a strategy of prudent skepticalism, of hippocratic diplomacy, "first, do no harm." and behind the scenes the entire time was barbara bush, who in a period of great tumult and a period of great turmoil, and president bush out fro

. >>> a new biography about george h.w. bush. the author sitting down with our john siegenthaler. says jeb bush faces a much different presidential field than his father did. >> you have been watching this campaign. how does it compare to other presidential campaigns. >> 36 years ago, you know who would have been on that stage? ronald reagan, brush, anson, and kaine. and even 16 years ago you had george w. bush, john mccain. you know, it's -- it's sort of striking that what we're trying to do -- what a lot of folks are trying to do, who an establishment candidate is, and establishment now just means you have been elected to something. that you have been in politics for longer than four months. it's a very strange moment. you know, somebody asked me the other day at home in nashville, said could george h.w. bush get nominated today? i said he damn near didn't make it the first time. [ laughter ] >> so i think my view of jeb at this point, is that he is a lot like his dad, but he has to show more of the competitive streak that his father had and masked pretty well, and his brother h

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and i think it hurt the president having his iron-ass view of everything. >> george h.w. bush and donald rumsfeld did not look each other for 40 years. they were competitors. >> he wrote a biography about bush. there could be several reasons he is breaking his science now. >> is the older father thinking i want to protect my son by making it clear there were maligned influences. >> if you were the son you don't want your father to say your administration was affected by bad influences it moons you were -- means you were weak. it means you gave in. bush senior revealed that donald trump once expressed interest in being his runningmate. and unbelievable." >>> what can cause a young girl to experience her first tears of joy. steve hartman reports on a heart warming case of lost and found. >> who ever coined the phrase military brat. >> paper towel. >> obviously never med the daughter of nicholas and wife jen. mckenzie is three. if you look closely at pictures of her over the years, you will notice something. that giraffe, raffe in every shot. >> it was a lovy. she wants to go to

88 iowa caucuses but went on to win the democratic nomination before losing to vice president george h.w. bush in the general election. >> had them and my fingers were ripped. >> what did you do? >> nice to see you, hi, how are you? mike dukakis from massachusetts. nice to see you. >> born there. >> whereabouts? what brought you out here? >> like the people, like the country. >> when did you move out? >> the first time about 16, 17 years ago. then we went back to the navy. >> where, where are you? hi, jim. folks from worcester. >> hi. >> this young man grew up in

former president george h.w. bush weighing in on his son's presidency in a new book. mincing no words about george w. bush's rhetoric after 9/11, and airing his feelings about former vice president dick cheney and former defense secretary donald rumsfeld. all of it coming right in the middle of jeb bush's struggling run for the presidency. andrea mitchell has the fallout. >> reporter: father and son, both presidents, and now for the first time, the father is breaking his silence about some of the son's most trusted war advisors. slamming dick cheney as an iron-ass. donald rumsfeld as an arrogant fellow. to jon meacham in "destiny and power." >> i took it as a mark of pride. i was aggressive in defending, in carrying out what i thought were the right policies. >> reporter: a complicated family drama now extending to the presidential hopes of another son jeb who talked about it today with nbc's kasie hunt. >> my brother is a big boy. his administration was shaped by his thinking, his reaction to the attacks on 9/11. i think my dad, like a lot of people that love george,

you're going to change the world. >>> former president george h.w. bushque of rumsfeld in his son's administration. andrea mitchell. >> mika, good morning. i know you've been talking to john about his new book. it is startling as jeb bush is trying to reboot his campaign for the presidency, he's now trying to explain what his father said, those comments about his brother george w. bush's white house. this after decades of silence. >> this morning the fog continues after george h.w. bush's book. rumsfeld thursday fired back telling nbc news bush 41 is getting up in news and bush 43 who i found made his own decision. >> time passes and we appreciate him more and more. >> the two have a history. as for the 2013 documentary whether it was dick cheney who brought him into the second bush administration. >> i don't think george w. bush's father recommended. >> and in the new biography destiny in power, the elder bush didn't spare criticism for his own secretary of defense calling dick cheney an iron blank. cheney on fox recommended the book. >> i saw my role as

back to the 1988 campaign of vice president george h.w. bush. he speaks here at the florida republican party convention where he is introduced by his son, florida state commerce secretary jeb bush. vice president bush won the florida primary in march 1988 on his way to the republican nomination. he defeated michael dukakis in the 1988 general election to become the nation's 41st president. [cheers and applause] >> where's george? come on up. introducing the next candidate is my brother george bush and my daughter noel bush. next speaker is a man of tremendous couriers, conviction and experience.

george herbert walker bush. >> stability. the fundamental political transaction in the democracy, do we trust our fate in his hands or her hands. and george h.w. bush became president through series of life experiences, he was able to convince enough people that he was someone who could be trusted at the helm. it was not a glamorous figure, he was not greatest of other for i think safe to say. but he gave up up a sense of command, i think that whether it was being last president of the world war ii generation, series of jobs, almost impossible to imagine now someone with his resume getting even remotely through a primary. u.n. ambassador, chairman of the republican national committee during watergate, what second prize. director of the cia, vice president for eight years. he was a public servant who i think culturally and temperamentally had as much in common with the founding father as has had with his own successors. >> dickerson: i want to talk about present day in a moment. where did george washington, my goodness, he seemed to have it all. what would you pick in terms of something we should look for fellas and women who are running these