James i would say he was a guy who was the son of a president , had trouble dealing with that fact for the first 40 yearsplus of his life and then got his own personal life together enough to be a quite successful and shrewd politician to be elected governor of texas, and then became president of the united states. The first thing he would be known for then at the time of his presidency now and forever more will certainly be the fact that he was president at the time of the september 11th attacks and chose to wage a war in iraq that turned out to be a disaster. Brian what were his early years like . James well, he followed in his fathers footsteps and i say that quite literally, because he was forced almost to go to prep school at andover. He went to yale. He did many of the things his father did. It really in his mind, i think, it was not him. He once said many years later there were differences between him and his father starting with the fact that he went to Sam Houston Elementary S
Some of these authors have appeared on booktv. You can watch online, booktv. Org. Later story of hello girls of world war i. We begin the special features of the mayors of bryan and college station. One of the wonderful things of bryan, college station, you have two cities, the city of bryan started a couple of years before, really right after the civil war. There was a railroad coming from houston that was marching its way here. Stopped before the civil war and after civil warred and it continued on and bryan for the first few years after the civil war struggled to get itself created and was able to do that. The University Got its first six students and city of bryan was getting going and the area that you see around us today are still some of the first buildings that were being built at the time, 25 years ago this was a ghosttown. Because of area of state, geographically blurred too. Texas a m was one of the land grant institutions and over time it grew but it was 5 miles from a town
Warren the exhibit is one we started putting together after the president by. People president died. Weree in College Station really invested in it, the train came up here from houston. They were proud of the fact that the first lady and president were very dear. A lot of that was incorporated into the exhibit. You can see the lifesized statue of sully, president bushs service dog. At a ceremony a couple of months ago we installed sully, and the to thefe sully came ceremony. The dog is now at walter reed. The iconic photo in the exhibit is of sully in front of president bushs casket. President bush got sully in june for aboute served six months until the president s death on november 30, 2018. So we have a picture of him as a ,uppy, and with president bush and he did everyday tasks and added quality to the last months of his life. The memorial exhibit itself, we have the flag that flew at half staff at the white house, and we also have the flag that flew over the capital. One of my fav
My grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. While at the george h. W. Bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of many scrapbooks containing mementos from their life together. We are here in the research room. We are going to take a look at 120 scrapbooks that misses bush mrs. Bush began keeping shortly after she and president bush became engaged. She was an avid scrapbook or and documented their entire history avid scrapbooker and documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for their entire marriage. This one is from 1944 and 1945i believe. Misses bush his granddaughter mrs. Bush his granddaughter was doing a book on the president and misses bush. Half mrs. Bush. And she was using the scrapbooks as a resource for that book. One of the things she found because it was sitting inside this envelope was what we think is a scrapbook from their first thanksgiving. She has the guests that were there and
Toure cspan cities continues its clock at prine Bryan College station with a the final resting place of president bush, his wife barbara and their daughter robin. Were about 4 10 of a mile label. E president bush chose this site final resting place. So in april, about a year and a ago now, we buried mrs. Bush here and then in after his death in november, and then the funeral inut six days later, december, he was brought up here the up, 4141, in the special car. Amazingly, there were there lined, all the way from houston. Its probably about 80 or 90 miles from houston here. And there were people lined up thealong the tracks, all way here. I was in a bus. We kind of followed the path of train. And it was just amazing. You could see the people all tracks,l over the places likeoe, that. Ended at thetrain university about a mile from here. Ad the casket was put in hearse and brought here. Theres a walkway on the other the gravesite. Lined the walkway all here. Y the Funeral Service here was