a tiny country, everybody trusts him down there, he s respected, if i can make one call he would be a good guy to talk to about what s going on. a number of months later i ran into sangoneti, president bush. i heard people say in the large foreign policy issues he was very present, but he was also present on the small stuff. he wasn t calling sangoneti to get a vote, he was developing a relationship with him. that s who he was, he was great at relationship building. when john tolliver was being considered as the secretary of defense, he asked me to join him you were going to vote for him anyway? it was a tough vote. but he backed your dad. he did, absolutely. but also president bush asked me to be for him. did he? yeah. that s nice.
real privilege and honor of knowing barbara and president bush. and to be welcomed into their family wasn t about who you knew, it wasn t about how high you ranked in the white house or the governor s office in the case of jeb. it was really about the loyalty that you showed to their sons and their cause and their character. so if you were the real deal, and barbara bush and 41 sussed out the real deal more quickly and efficiently than just about anybody. you were welcomed into their lives and for a lot of us, welcomed into their home in kennebunkport, which wasn t glit si and sterile, it was warm and inviting. and every time i was there, there was a roomful of families and friends, democrats and republicans. and the visit included a walk around the house and a look at the pictures of president bush 41 with other world leaders. i mean, he was he lived his
and we had great conversations and we discussed, actually, for quite some time the father, and how much they loved him and how much he loved them. preparations for the service honoring president george herbert walker bush are underway. of course, these things are planned years ahead. for more what to expect to turn to gabe gutierrez, who s in houston where the former president passed away last night. everybody is curious about this. how often in advance do we know about the plans for the parade, the national funeral, where it s going to be held, the lying in state, tell us if you can, about the prep. chris, this information as you mentioned is known for years. it s planned. but it s rolled out little by little over the coming days. we know that president trump says that air force one will be used to transport president bush s casket from houston to washington on monday where the casket will lie in state at the u.s. capital.
towards the middle and we were asked to stay behind. the vice president came out, he was campaigning for president, obviously busy but he spent considerable time with us. i remember having the occasion when i worked for president bush to be lingering outside the oval office and being able to tell that story to president bush 41. he was a man of profound decency and over his 94 years of life, there are so many countless stories of it that ll be told over the next week. but he didn t have the movie star charisma of a kennedy or reagan. but people looked at the man who possessed the virtues of the greatest generation, a combat veteran, someone for whom it was important. he said he possessed more of the qualities of greatness and goodness. i think when we look at the life
sununu. one of my favorite former senators, john sununu. hi, chris. let me ask you about the boss. you were his chief of staff, filling in the role of the former great governor of eisenhower s period who became chief of staff, the governor of new hampshire at that time. your thoughts? i had the pleasure and honor of serving as chief of staff to the president. he was such a nice guy, it made my life a little bit harder because i had to be the bad cop. but he was a great man who had good vision, but never was seen to articulate it well enough to the press. but he handled his foreign policy issues superbly and i ve been telling folks that he actually was a great domestic policy president. he passed more domestic legislation than any president except lyndon johnson and