emotional for someone like me. it was almost as if he didn't want to leave her yet, and he wanted to do what she would have wanted him to do, which was to be political and sort of greet everybody and say, thank you so much for coming here, which is exactly what he did. >> and paul, it really does speak to that sense of sort of service and honor and just -- that is so important in the bush family. >> he always talked about how his mother told him never to use the world "i." he was going over, completely unscripted, unplanned, and these things are very carefully planned for aging first families, going in there, shaking all those hands. here's a typical george h.w. bush thing. this morning, he was telling aides, i have a may 10th event for brian mulrooney, i have to get to that, i have to get better in time to get to that. he's still fighting.