united nations. thank you, mr. president, for this great honor. reporter: bush was a controversial choice for the job of u.n. ambassador, he was inexperienced but enthusiastic. but you got to dream a little. we got to figure out how we can get more support for this organization. reporter: he immersed himself in the big issues of day. the middle east, china versus taiwan. india versus pakistan. he served the president faithfully, though, nixon seemed to think bush should be tougher as he indicated into this phone call to bush in 1971. i want you to hit him frontally, calmly, that clear? take the gloves off. you know exactly what we ve done. okay. bye. all right. ambassador george bush. reporter: george bush at the 1972 gop national convention with 26-year-old george w. and then nixon aide donald rumsfeld. happy moment followed just weeks later by the death of the man
a much longer, tougher process. so, gordon, what was the role of china versus donald trump? when you say that president trump helped break the deadlock with the sanctions, can you just explain to us what he did that obama hadn t done or people in the past, presidents in the past? i don t quite understand president trump s relationship with xi jinping. if you look back two years, alysin, china s sanctions enforcement is much improved. there is a world of difference. but if you look at the last two months, china has markedly busted sanctions and they ve done so publicly. so for instance when kim jong-un went to beijing at the end of last month, chinese state media allowed pictures being taken of all of the gifts that xi jinping gave to kim. that s violation of u.n. sanctions. that s basically $394,000 worth of jewelry and pours lanrcelain the u.n. just said is completely sanctioned. now, the problem here, though, is if we are able to end up with
be some sort of large peer-to-peer, china versus the united states or china versus an ally. he started working on it before we have been paying attention to north korea and china. crash back sounds fascinating. a thin line has to be washed. will civilians will be able to absorb what he s writing and talking about? it is less about the military and more about the foreign policy piece of it. crash back refers to when a ship has to stop dead in the water to avoid collision. but that is sort of the only real military piece, that and talking about the chinese military assets. mike is a really good writer who knows how to talk to a general audience from his years of covering the military. that is a terrific recommendation. crashback definitely goes on my list.
be destroyed by the per very purveyorsors of hatred. [inaudible question] i think that a lot of people perceive everything through racial eyes. but my point is that we don t have to do that. what we have to do instead is to begin to see people as people. as a neurosurgeon i operated on people from every part of the world. why was i able to do that successfully, somebody from china versus somebody from africa, versus somebody from somalia somebody from south america, somebody from kansas. because their brains are all the same. that s what we need to emphasize.
very different kind of first lady. chris cillizza this is important because of recent tensions with china, china versus gentleman fan, over china s declaration of its control over areas, aerial defense zone that japan and the united states clearly disagree with. joe biden was there arguing against it. these are unresolved issues that understandably president obama and president xi will discuss when they meet next week. you know that this visit michelle obama is focused on the personal, which makes sense. she is not an overly political person. i think we all knew when hillary clinton was in the white house that she was sort of a political co-partner with her husband, i don t know if she thought they would run and be in the senate but we knew she was in the role. michelle obama not in the role but it is impossible for first lady of the united states to go to china amid everything you