welcome to kennebunkport!.. >> john and his sister lisa belong to a new england family whose history goes back to mayflower days but whose legacy had been largely forgotten. in 2005, that reclusive aunt i mentioned, julie green, is diagnosed with cancer, and john moves her from the boston area into a condo up here in maine, where the siblings can help care for her. it's a big job to be a caregiver. >> i never thought of it that way. she had nobody else. >> what was she like? >> she was single and independent. >> never married? >> no. >> no children? >> she did not want children. >> nor does aunt julie want anyone to get rid of all her stuff. >> even when we moved everything out of that house, we had a dumpster put in there, and she would guard the dumpster. she would make sure we wouldn't throw anything out. >> so the basement of julie's condo gets overwhelmed with stacks of boxes of books and who knows what else. john, what are the chances that, if you and your sister didn't care for aunt julie, that those bo

always struck me in any private times that i had with the bush family, especially the bushes in kennebunkport, that you see them as these political figures and these historic figures. but then you get close to them and spend time with them, and you realize that they are husbands and wives first. that they are mothers and fathers first. and i know when i was speaking with nancy reagan, she was talking with affection about her two children and talking about how proud she was of both of them, which you know, from a distance -- that was a surprise because i had heard just like everybody else about the distance that she had from time to time with her daughter, but she spoke in such positive, loving terms of boat of her children that that took up most of our time together at lunch. she was a proud mother. she was a loving mother. she was a loving -- a loving wife. and as tom brokaw said, she did it during the most difficult of times, in the most difficult of circumstances. being the wife to the man that ran the counterrevolution in 1966 through 1988, to all of the things that her children probably

we had one in the can with the helicopter flying over bush's house in kennebunkport. the ocean and the golf courses and, you know, is this where you live? >> i've heard all the arguments. >> dukakis said i never want to see that ad ever go out on the air. >> i wasn't listening. i made a decision we're not going to respond. >> it was perfectly clear. that they were playing hardball and we were playing softball and you can't win hardball with softball. >> i was doing some research on george bush, and wouldn't you know it, we found a piece of footage. >> george bush had been a pilot in world war ii, and he had been shot down in the pacific. >> a submarine emerged and saved him. somebody on the submarine had a camera and filmed it. we used it everywhere, you know, as much as we could. >> i, george herbert walker bush. >> i, george herbert walker bush. >> do solemnly swear. >> when he earned the distinguished flying cross for bravery under fire. >> perhaps it began in day in 1944 when he earned it. >> i saw that footage and i was just sick because it was, it was phenomenal

against witnesses including that by a mob of 2500 people who burnt down the witnesses king hall in kennebunkport, maine. 1943, with the world war raging, the court agreed to another flag salute case concerning jehovah's witnesses for the purpose of overturning the decision that it had reached 36 months earlier. writing for the majority and a 6-3 decision, justice robert jackson who had not been on the court earlier said the following -- the very purpose of the bill of rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy to place them beyond the reach of the majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the court. fundamental rights may not be submitted to a vote. they depend on the outcome of no elections. first as a graduate student, and then briefly as a professor of political philosophy, and now for more than four decades as a washington observer of american politics and governance, i have been thinking about the many vexing issues implicated in these two flag salute cases. the issues include the source of american rights

we had one in the can with the helicopter flying over bush's house in kennebunkport.an and the golf courses and, you know, is this where you live? >> i've heard all the arguments. >> dukakis said i never want to see that ad ever go out on the air. >> i wasn't listening. i made a decision we're not going to respond. >> it was perfectly clear. that they were playing hardball and we were playing softball and you can't win hardball with softball. >> i was doing some research on george bush, and wouldn't you know it, we found a piece of footage. >> george bush had been a pilot in world war ii, and he had been shot down in the pacific. >> a submarine emerged and saved him. somebody on the submarine had a camera and filmed it. we used it everywhere, you know, as much as we could. >> i, george herbert walker bush. >> i, george herbert walker bush. >> do solemnly swear. >> perhaps it began the day in 1944 when he earned the distinguished flying cross for bravery under fire. >> i saw that footage and i was just sick because it was, it was phenomenal. i mean the guy was a war he

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you have george her better walker bush in kennebunkport maine during the height of the gulf crisis, raisinglican presidents have not necessarily dropped everything. >> nobody told him to drop everything. the question raised by honest people in the media, as well. not just republicans who are saying why not go to washington and why -- why -- we just played the clip of the president. i would love to know if jonathan agrees with the president when he says tell isis make sure the terrorists know they're weak not strong. how can we say that after paris, after san bernardino in california on american soil? i mean, they're not weak. and i worry about anyone who says that isis is weak. we may say to them, and we should, we're going to destroy you, we're going to take out your oil fields, technology, we're going to take you out. but why pretend they did not have the upper hand this week. >> let's go back to jonathan and get the last word, jonathan. >> look, what we're seeing the president do here is play a bit of psychological warfare against isis. these are people, yes, they are terrorist killers t

has always struck me in any private times that i had with the bush family, especially bushes in kennebunkport. you see them as political figures and then you get close and spend time with them and realize they're husbands and wives first and mothers and fathers first. i know when i was speaking with nancy reagan, she was talking with affection about her two children and talking about how proud she was of both of them, which, you know, from a distance -- that was a surprise because -- i had heard just like everybody else about the distance that she had from time to time with her daughter, but she spoke in such positive loving terms of both of her children, that that took up most of our time together at lunch. she was a proud mother. she was a loving mother. she was a loving wife. and as tom brokaw said, she did it during the most difficult of times and the most difficult of circumstances. being the wife to the man that ran the counterrevolution in 1966 through 1988 to all the things that her children held dear and that was the freedom of eisenhower and she stood by her children to the very end