focusing instead on the funeral service at the national cathedral where president trump and first lady melania is expected. afterwards, george h.w. bush will return home for a family funeral at saint martin s open he churchon thursday morning. he ll be buried along side his wife barbara and daughter robin who died of leukemia as a child. today is expected to be quiet, reserved for family and close friends. chris. chris: rick leventhal, reporting from houston. thank you. i had the good fortune to sit down with george bush twice after he left office. i think our talks give you a real insight into why so many people who knew this president, including me, loved the man. the first time was at his presidential library and museum at texas a & m university. i asked the president where he got his strong commitment to
congress will hold off on votes, focusing instead on the funeral service at the national cathedral where president trump and first lady melania is expected. afterwards, george h.w. bush will return home for a family funeral at saint martin s open he churchon thursday morning. he ll be buried along side his wife barbara and daughter robin who died of leukemia as a child. today is expected to be quiet, reserved for family and close friends. chris. chris: rick leventhal, reporting from houston. thank you. i had the good fortune to sit down with george bush twice after he left office. i think our talks give you a real insight into why so many people who knew this president, including me, loved the man. the first time was at his presidential library and museum at texas a & m university. i asked the president where he got his strong commitment to
years, barbara bush, and their daughter robin who they lost to leukemia at the age of three. michael, how much do we know about how that loss of a young child would shape president bush? they never forgot about it. every single day he once said they always thought of robin. and it was something that was an important moment, not only in their marriage but it s inter t interesting it tells so much about both of them. dwight eisenhower lost a son at about two years old. they responded to that by never speaking about it in public. it tells so much about the bushes that they continued to talk about robin almost as if
to his final resting place at his presidential library. he will be laid alongside his barbara and their daughter robin. president s clinton, bush and barack obama shared their memories of bush. here s some of what they said. the mission was not george h.w. bush. the mission was how do we serve the united states, how do we help the united states, how do we make the united states better. one of the jobs is to strengthen the institution of the presidency, bring honor to the office. that clearly george h.w. bush did. what people don t appreciate fully even within his own party is the degree to which he had to land the plane when the berlin wall comes down. you have chaos potentially in the former soviet union and
memorial service at the national cathedral. president trump has declared that a national day of mourning. president bush will then be flown back to houston for a second memorial service on thursday. the motorcade will then take president bush to the final resting place. both bushes, wife barbara, the former first lady, and their daughter robin who died of leukemia are laid to rest there. the points of life are saying celebrate him by giving him a day of remembrance. towards the end president bush was increasingly frail and he had a form of parkinson s disease and congestive heart failure. we have more on the story.