he could have gone to a number of sools like ut and other places, but he went there because he wanted to be assoated with the aggies. he wanted to be a part of the true blue texas kind of, if you will, dna. >> and it's interesting with housn. the reason houston so embraces the bush fam in some way he was, he is symbolic of how houston became houston, you know. houston is one of america's largest cities, not thanks to texans. thanks to yankees and thanks to northerners moving south, whether it was for a job, a lot of the oil industry. he was a northern immigrant into texas, but in many ways it's the modern republican party wa built by many of these northern immigrants. >> you recall, we took "nightly- news of our across america series. >> and it is more cosmopolitan, not more, you know, it has a -- there is a texas feel to it, bui a larger city where other cities in texas sometimes feel -- >> to the extent that some are wondering is it political -- we are going to take you inside as this funeral begins. >> the life and faith of our 41st president, george herbert walker bush., if you wo