mackey saved her life.ere a lesson there that we should follow our premonition, our instantual reactions to things at times? >> it's a great point there because intuition, if it's well-formed, well-informed, practiced and built on experience is a good guide. >> reporter: mackey could have followed sarah and gotten himself out. but there were 13 other firefighters he needed to warn. and they were in the other direction where the fire was heading. he made a decision, he wanted to be with his men. >> he did. >> reporter: even though it might cost him his life? >> it's virtue, it's honor and it's also what you might call servant leadership. the marine corps puts it this way -- mission first, you're second. >> reporter: it was mackey's final decision. and one that showed that while he may not have known he was a leader, he died like one, making the ultimate sacrifice. this is the very top of storm king mountain. it's a place where 14 mifts lost their lives, all of it right there in that area behind me. it's now

his business card of the pretty young women that walk by use a of the simple buddhist monks quote mackey was so much more appealing than one in nothing and was free to project my hopes and accumulated retails upon him" end quote. you could be writing about the dalai lama of trying to ride about somebody who was on a pedestal is there the danger the more they learn about them or find out the more with your dissolution you wish you left the subjects on and left the dolly llamup there on the pedestal? or do feel it is important to examine what is on the pedestal? >> it is important because his favorite verbs hour search and analyze and investigate and explore. i did have that apprehension i have known him 25 years so parts of his great power ic absolute integrityo say whatever angle you approach political, monastic argue men, he is like a tree th very deep roots and whether he goes to the ite house are talking to the monkey is forcing the same principles with different applications. budget and within consistency i found if i was researching this book the 24 arrow sai to my father then is wh

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mackey announced he won't be holding town hall meetings. let me predict this will be a campai campaign. about those town hall meetings, it is interesting. i mean, by the way, i apologize, i am wearing a suit because i had to do a television debate before driving up here, i'll be shedding this and dressing more appropriately very shortly, i can assure you. one of the things i've always encountered in debating town hall system howagetated liberals get when people actually show up to protest what they're doing and to argue with them. now i admit some rhetoric has been excessive on both sides and i deplore that. but it it is the height frankly of either irony or hippock rase for liberals to cam plain about people coming to the town hall meeting. the president was a community organizer as his first job. that is what they do, organize people to come to meetings and raise heck. i'm astonished that they somehow have decided to organize that it is unpatriotic, "unamerican," as pelosi says. by the way, if you don't believe in the common sense of of t

." >> reporter: the incestuous fair only ende mackeie says, whe she became pregnant and didt know whethernd's. ♪ if you hold onor one more day ♪ >> reporter: the book has divided the famous family. former pop sta china phillips says she believes her half sister, but step mother michelle phillips don't, telling nbc news, "there is no way to kw ifhe story is true." john phillips died in 2001, a victim of his own drug and alcohol abuse. last year on "today," mackenzie remembered how her own drug use got her fired from "one day at a time." >> it was, and therefore, we don't gloss over it, because it would be untrue to history. ♪ california dreamin' >> reporter: a personal history that included a dark and disturbing secret until now. chris jansing, nbc news, los anges. >> and again, the book is called "high on arrival." mackenzie phillips, good morning to you. >> good morning, meredith. >> i think anybody reading your book will probably conclude, it's a macle that you're alive, given all the drug use, the rape, the kidnapping. how would you describe your childhood? >> well, i mean, it was like