california and she relayed a story about her time working fo him in the white house if you recall, shana and she was national security advisor not the head advisor, but she was on the nst and she was responsible for all things soviet union. when the wall was going to be t coming down they all went to hi and said mister president, we have to get ready, you must go to europe, he must have this moment and he said i'm not going . but sir, you are leading this charge and he said what am i going to do there? dance on the wall? this isir their moment. let them have this moment. i'm not going to go and try to hide the spotlight out there. that it ecisions like might sound like oh he's being modest, but i think there was strategy also to the modesty. the writing of the notes, the other thing she talked about at that event was how george h w bush found it very important an easy to make friends with leaders around the world and he got to know them and he would send them notes, he would call them and asked them about their grandchildren, congratulate the on things he read about on the news and keep