i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. i george herbert walker bush do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. and will to the best of my ability. and will to the best of my ability. preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. so help me god. so help me. congratulations. thank. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. and his eighth justice. mr. president, vice president quayle. senator mitchell. speaker. right. senator dole. congressman michael. and fellow citizens. neighbors and friends. there is a man here who has earned a lasting place in our hearts and in our history. president reagan, on behalf of our nation, i thank you for the wonderful things that you have done for america. i've just repeated word for word. the oath taken by george washington 200 years ago and the bible on which i

i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. i george herbert walker bush do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. and will to the best of my ability. and will to the best of my ability. preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. so help me god. so help me. congratulations. thank. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. and his eighth justice. mr. president, vice president quayle. senator mitchell. speaker. right. senator dole. congressman michael. and fellow citizens. neighbors and friends. there is a man here who has earned a lasting place in our hearts and in our history. president reagan, on behalf of our nation, i thank you for the wonderful things that you have done for america. i've just repeated word for word. the oath taken by george washington 200 years ago and the bible on which i

i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. i george herbert walker bush do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the

the last president to lie in state was the late president george herbert walker bush. in december 2018, the last person to lie in state was the late senate majority leader harry reid of nevada. in january 2022. this time last year, we were all at the iowa caucuses, but the first in the nation did not get much attention until 1976. that's when jimmy carter, a pretty unknown governor from georgia, decided to focus on iowa. he placed a surprising second in the democratic caucus, which caught the attention of the national media and catapulted him to the democratic nomination and ultimately, the white house. since then, almost all candidates of both parties have taken iowa quite seriously, and today in washington, it feels like an iowa day. in the 20s, as former president carter is being brought to the united states capitol for the first day of his funeral procession here in washington to take place a truly solemn ceremony on the steps in front of the capitol, where he will be greeted at the top of the steps by his family and accompanied into the capitol rotunda. let's see

i, i there was not a clear domestic agenda in my in either george herbert walker bush or bill inaugural inaugural. and i think that explained why largely they their their agendas were were not as broadly successful or as as either for example obama or reagan. and, you know, the the demand to their genre are so constrict thing that almost everyone tries to fulfill them with the only a very few except jimmy. jimmy carter for example the exception that perhaps proves this rule. we want presidents to come across as strong leaders and carter i think is one of the most decent man ever to occupy the presidency, a truly great ex-president. but he said in his inaugural to the american people, your strength can make up for my. and that's not message we want from a president. we want a president to be a strong leader who represents us. but that doesn't come across very. so i think what we what comes across is these seven characteristics really a good job of defining what you to do. and then if you could add in maybe a quarter a cup of that would really a big help as well. and being righ

testimony that was immune and it influenced people in the in the trial of those two president george herbert walker bush, when he was about to leave office, pardoned seven of the reagan administration officials who were either prosecuted or convicted. and so the general outcome was very little in the way of accountability or sort of punishment and consequences for the individuals involved. john poindexter or, you know, got a demotion from being a assistant admiral to a rear admiral. that was about the the extent of the of the sort of harm to at least his formal career. oliver north tried to parlay his notoriety into a u.s. senate seat. he ran for the united states senate unsuccessfully. he ran. virginia was not elected. but but it gives you an idea of of sort of the the the celebrity that he had generated, you know, how famous he had become and how much political support he had, at least in some quarters in our politics. and i'm trying to think, has this joint senate house committee setup been used since? can you think of any. yes. the 911, when following 911, there were two major investigations. one wa

. >> john: we haven't had a president with adult children since george herbert walker bush, also a veryily but quite different in terms of the involvement. >> they were not really involved in a family business like the trumps are. that's an enterprise where each member of the family has been part of working with her father. they are a unit. that was not the case with the bushes. everybody have their own thing going on and the president, president bush, when he governed, kept his family at bay from any work involved with his office. except when he was running for president, he did tap his son george w to help them with the campaign. >> maurice: thank you so much for the insight. >> john: coming up next, there is a very unusual guest at the inauguration today. >> maurice: so unusual margaret brennan had asked thee. call leaffilter today. and never clean out clogged gutters again. leaffilter's technology keeps debris out of your gutters for good. guaranteed. call 833.leaf.filter today, or visit leaffilter.com. after careful review of medical guidance and research on pain relief, my recomme

george herbert walker bush a visual biography, and rogers chair in the presidency at vanderbilt university. he occasionally advised president biden on historical matters and major speeches. thank you both very much for coming to the sunday show. so, garrett, garrett, john, let me start with you. just what we just heard from garrett haig in terms of what the president elect promises will be doing tomorrow, among his first priorities as president of the united states. >> well, we've been here before. and so we've seen, what, the first few days, the first opening salvo, if you will, of a trump administration can be like, and we'll do it again. 49.9% of those who went to the polls last november decided that this was worth the risk, that this was the course they chose to take, and we are now, like any democracy. we are now in a zone where we will have to see whether or not the basic constitutional norms, the basic rules that have for more than two and a half centuries or two and a half centuries have in fact guided our our path. whether they will continue to. and i think there's been good stori

what went through my mind is that w's father, papa bush 41, george herbert walker bush, would have extended a hand. that's what i think. do i think that papa bush would have been a trump voter? no. would he have had the decorum and the civility to extend a hand to donald trump? i think he would have. and i'm not letting trump off the hook either. i'm blaming all of them. you know, it always bothered me. obviously, january 6th bothered me, but it bothered me that donald trump left washington without the decency of going to joe biden's inauguration. i mean, there are moments in time when you've got to put it all aside and for the good of the nation, just play the role. and most of them played the role yesterday. >> yeah, i think that that's my big picture question here, michael, because i mean, you know, i've covered enough of these types of events now in washington. and, you know, the first presidential funeral i covered was gerald ford's, which was in the early days of 2007, after he passed over the christmas time in 2006. and we always do remark on how these people are rivals in political

other present that has done this in such a, the late days and stages of his presidency is george herbert walker bush. and so it is highly unusual, but something that she's going to be doing and welcoming him in the coming days. okay, kimberly, i'll get bringing some of our license that from washington dc. many thanks. kimberly, i am trying to revise in the democratic republic of congo have taken control of a key town in the east. the armed group captured my stacy from the company's army. it's the latest time to be seized by the fights, as has been advancing steadily in the region for months, and they all say accuses rolando, backing the booth. i claimed that kick all a rejects view and says nearly a 1000000 people find the homes last year because of the conflict in the eastern democratic republic of congo as fighting between government forces and the m. 23 intensified the homes group the most move and a decade ago, and just want to move 100 on the groups operating in the day. all see, it's primarily based and north keeping of province, which is which in result is 23 leaders mainly from the tipsy eth

life, it's where dwight eisenhower open his administration with a prayer, something that george herbert walker bush would also do. it's where john kennedy had asked us in a cry that jimmy carter heard and embodied that we should ask not what our country can do for us but we can do for our country. all of those moments unfolded in the space we are looking at and president carter will be taken up and into the rotunda with those great john trumbull images of epic american moments, the signing of the declaration, toward washington's resignation of his commission, one of the great moments of putting country above self and we will lie on the stand where abraham lincoln held his mortal remains. it held president kennedy's, it was actually the kennedy family in the horrible hours after dallas in 1963 that sought out that kata fault and it came out of storage for president kennedy. it is where dwight eisenhower, lyndon johnson and ronald reagan and not too long ago john robert lewis of alabama, a congressman from georgia reverend sharpton's good friend where he lay. i think it's worth for all of our underst

we talked about it earlier that, you know, there was almost this sort of carter, reagan, george herbert walker bushal his his thunder on that and tried to claim credit for it, but it really is his negotiation, you know, however long it took. but how does that even factor in to his legacy? >> yeah, it's fascinating. >> and the timing of it is important, i thought when he turned to the press corps today and he was asked as he was walking away from the podium, does donald trump deserve credit for this? >> and he turned around and said, are you joking? >> i thought, you know, showed a little spark there, which was which was helpful. >> listen, i mean, he has had a difficult presidency for all the things that he's accomplished. you know, he's you know, there was he had to deal with the israel-gaza conflict. he had to deal with the russia ukraine invasion. he had to deal with ending america's longest war in afghanistan. and how difficult the, the execution was of the pullout of u.s. troops from afghanistan. i mean, all those things are real. >> and i don't think we know the historical long term view on a

. >> it's been a while since we've had a presidential funeral last one for george herbert walker bush a period where all of these fractional differences in american politics are set aside, at least for one day you're looking at some of the color guard here, getting ready to move to the national cathedral. we'll be listening in here take a listen.

and presidents from truman through george herbert walker bush stood in the breach, and there's goingis no presidency that didn't have controversy. >> right. >> there's no presidency that didn't have ups and downs, and i think we -- people like me and doris, we tend to talk about these things in discreet periods, understandably. but there's an unfolding american story here, and i think the more we can recognize that it's not just the presidents but it's also the people and the decisions we make, then i think we're going to perhaps come through this complicated time a little bit better. >> all right. well, we're going to be back. presidential historians jon meacham and doris kearns goodwin, thank you both, and democratic senator of georgia, raphael warnock, thank you as well. the sun has come up. >> and the temperature, still very low. let me just say. >> joe, we are grateful to be here. this was all my idea, and i'm so honored to be here. we're going to be attending the service, and i know you're cold. it is a little cold. >> i'm not cold. but as we talked about. it is a great irony,

genuinely pray for his success because that is the country's success, which is a phrase of george herbert walker bush'se, lester, as your question implies, in many ways the course of the country always intimately intwined with those who are in power, is particularly so in the next four years. >> marine one -- >> no one has ever -- no one has ever had the impact -- i mean as president biden leaves -- this is the age of trump politically. that's not to lionize him, but as a practical matter, he has defined our politics for more than a decade. he will continue to define our politics. he has defined the supreme court. he has defined in many ways cultural shifts. and as a country we will be either embracing or pulling back from the personality we saw very much on display today. >> nighthawk 46, the marine aircraft used for part of the presidential fleet, now airborne. the bidens getting their last look at washington, d.c., as first couple. >> imagine the conversation that might be taking place at the moment where the images match the reality. he's leaving physically and leaving, of course, politically washi

we learned that ronald reagan left a letter for george herbert walker bush on stationery that said, "t the turkeys get you down." this moment of traveling from blair house to the white house, where the -- where the president and incoming president are meeting, was the time that bill clinton said, it really hit him that he was president. that all this stuff he had been talking about in the abstract was his and we should remember that be today, donald trump is going to learn about things or feel the weight of thing that are in the deepest, deepest secrets of the federal government. barack obama learned about the cyber hacking operation against the iranians on inauguration day. he also learned there was a terrorist plot on the mall, and he had a script in his pocket that if the terrorist went down, he was going to read evacuation instructions on that day. it is a day where you learn serious, serious things are happening. >> this is it. we just got a shot of susie wiles, who is going to be the first female chief of staff in the white house. she rules with an iron fist, and many people cre