[laughter] you never will. reporter: bill wheeler is 87. he s a father, a grandfather and a great grandfather, and we salute him and his fellow tuskegee airmen today on veterans day, jenna. jenna: we certainly do. what an amazing story, rick. rick leventhal in our new york newsroom, and on that note, we ll be right back. numbers, and i think our campus is spending too much money on printing. i d like to put you in charge of cutting costs. calm down. i know that it is not your job. what i m saying. excuse me? alright, fine. no, you don t have to do it. ok? [ male announcer ] notre dame knows it s better for xerox to control its printing costs. so they can focus on winning on and off the field. [ manager ] are you sure i can t talk ok, no, i get it. [ male announcer ] with xerox, you re ready for real business. i d like one of those desserts and some coffee. sure, decaf or regular? - regular. - cake or pie?
racism at the same timement in in at the same time. we were not known as tuskegee airmen until 1972 when we formed a formal organization called the tuskegee airmen incorporated. before that we were just black pilots. you were a segregated group though. all the way. even in combat. all the way. every step of the way. reporter: after the war bill says he couldn t afford to buy or represent a plane, and he couldn t get a job to fly a plane because of his skin color. a couple of weeks ago he was invited to fly in a piper cub just like the one he trained on back in the day. dan taylor handled the takeoff and landing but bill took the controls in flight and says, some things you never forget. flying is one of them. it was a resurrection for me. and i have to tell you, i let him grab the stick, let him grab the controls, throttle, rudder, stick, he held altitude, you never lost it, bill.
president is detached from a knowledge of american history that american carry with them and that has to do with, we are the most benign power ever to have exerted the greatest military power, not only saved the nations at world war ii after the war, with the marshal plan, everything about this nation. paul: you mentioned a particular anecdote which is the return of by president obama to then prime minister gordon brown of the winston churchill bus, a gift after 9/11 by former prime minister tony blair, he returned it and sent it back and you thought that was a telling illustration of this mindset that you re talking about. explain this why. and other americans, though it was covered in mystery and all that irk the reason why he sent it back. why he sent it back, it had to do with the fact that in this great house of many mansion of many houses many rooms, yes. rooms. the idea that the first act of this international kind was to
moments told us that this president is detached from a knowledge of american history that american carry with them and that has to do with, we are the most benign power ever to have exerted the greatest military power, not only saved the nations at world war ii after the war, with the marshal plan, everything about this nation. paul: you mentioned a particular anecdote which is the return of by president obama to then prime minister gordon brown of the winston churchill bus, a gift after 9/11 by former prime minister tony blair, he returned it and sent it back and you thought that was a telling illustration of this mindset that you re talking about. explain this why. and other americans, though it was covered in mystery and all that irk the reason why he sent it back. why he sent it back, it had to do with the fact that in this great house of many mansion of many houses many rooms, yes. rooms. the idea that the first act of this international kind was to