i was in charge of his protective detail. we were in boise, idaho, a restaurant in the downtown area. the whole front of the restaurant is glass. and over the radio in the agent s ear person in the parking lot with a sawed off shotgun. very quickly, the agents took the vice president and put him under the table, tablecloth coming down on the side and there s two of them under the table with him. one on each side and in between the two of him covering his entire body. and the one was covering his head very closely and his face was right in the agent s armpit. and the agent was telling him play by play what was happening. okay, mr. vice president, it s been resolved, they ve got the guy in custody. the next day on the airplane as they re traveling, here comes the vice president back through the plane with a big can of deodorant spray.
they re traveling here comes the vice president back to the plane with a big can of deodorant spray. and he said yours wasn t bad but i think this was better. please use this from now on. it s just pretty typical of george h.w. bush. he loves a good joke. and when he needled he never needled for harm or to hurt. he needled to enliven and to enhance the spirit. the university of michigan won the national championship. we thought we would try to do something different. so i had a basketball court set up in the rose garden. the president came out to check it out. and the president played basketball terribly. he was a terrible basketball player. so i thought to myself, well, we re not giving him the ball. the event transpires and the president says to rubio robinson, who had made the final
and over the radio, we saw a person in the parking lot with a sawed off shotgun. so very quickly, the agents took the vice president and put him under the table, the tablecloth coming down on the side, and there s two of them under the table with him, one on each side, and between the two of them, covering his entire body. and the one was covering his head very closely and his face was right in the agent s armpit. and the agent was telling him play by play what was happening. okay, mr. vice president, it s been resolved they ve got the guy in custody. the next day on the airplane as they re traveling, here comes the vice president back through the plane with a big can of deodorant spray. and he said yours wasn t bad, but i think this was better. please use this from now on. that s pretty typical of george h.w. bush. he loves a good joke. when he needled, he never
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entire body. and the one was covering his head very closely and his face was right in the agent s armpit. and the agent was telling him play by play what was happening. okay, mr. vice president, it s been resolved they ve got the guy in custody. the next day on the airplane as they re traveling, here comes the vice president back through the plane with a big can of deodorant spray. and he said yours wasn t bad, but i think this was better. please use this from now on. that s pretty typical of george h.w. bush. he loves a good joke. when he needled, he never needled for harm or hurt. he needled to enliven and to enhance the spirit. the university of michigan won the national championship. we thought we would try to do something different. so i had a basketball court set up in the rose garden. the president came out to check it out. and the president played basketball terribly. he was a terrible basketball player. so i thought to myself, well, we re not giving him the ball. the event