autobiography of presidential hopefuls? not really good? >> i think a closer a candidate is to announcing for president, the worse that candidate's book will fare. >> dana: because they don't want to get pinned down on something? >> i think. you become part of campaign propaganda rather than something that i think really reflects the man or woman. if you look at president obama's book, that holds true. dreams of my father, i enjoyed reading. >> dana: just going back to george h.w. bush for a moment. when you look at the body of work and about the man, in 1993, january '93 when they leave the white house, marlon fitswater told me they never thought he would be reveered or nobody would understand him as a man. do you think this week and outpouring that people do understand him? >> i'd have to be closer to the family to draw that kind of judgment. i think that there's always an