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you have been on the losing end, i think that s harder. bigger person. bill clinton has been gracious to my dad. and all of our family appreciates how he has treated dad. i admire how dad handled the relationship with bill clinton. bill clinton and i have a good relationship. we work together on the haiti fund and occasionally we give speeches together. i would classify him as a friend. greta: next, inside story and the 2000 election. when did al gore tell president bush not to get snippy. has bush spoken to gore since election 2000? then a special sneak peek at historic artifacts that are going into president bush s museum. letter from bono to president bush. and much much more coming up. hi.
the white house was running joke inside the west wing. he knew it wasn t the case. people who worked with me knew it wasn t the case. there s a moment in the book where i say that dick cheney came to see me and offered to leave the ticket. it was an incredibly gracious gesture on his part and speaks to his character as far as i m concerned. i consider canned it, of course. greta: why? well, because it was an opportunity to analyze whether or not, you know, the administration would be better off without him. that s what you do when you re president. you look at options and deliberate. it became clear to me i didn t want to replace dick cheney. it would be easy to displace him and dispel the myth. it wasn t true to be ge win with. i m glad i picked him in 2000 and day i left office i was glad i picked him.
thankfully. and that the world witnessed one of the greatest acts of courage ever. those are u.s. citizens storming the plane to save the lives of others. greta: the reason i know you wrote the book, that somebody else didn t write it, not to diminish 9/11 but at one point you had a conversation with your mother, where are you? brookfield, wisconsin. what are you doing there? you grounded the plane. family aspect of it. the only moment of levity during the day. giving you hell. she did. where are you, mom? he says in wisconsin. why? she said you grounded our plane. a great relief to hear mom and dad and relief for a laugh in what was a long and traumatic day for many americans. coming you up, one of the stunners in decision point.
call. it doesn t hurt my feelings that he doesn t call. it didn t spend time calling former presidents either except for my father when i was comforting him. he did call and asked me to join with president clinton to help the people in haiti and i was more than happy to respond. greta: you set out to be the education president, 9/11 happened and then we have immigration issue, you wanted to tackle social security. right. greta: all of those sort of things that no presidency can ever sort of unfold like you want it, can it? life i mean life doesn t unfold the way you expect it either. it didn t in my case. i never expected to be president. i, you know, i was hoping the presidency would be i thought the presidency would go one way and it went a different direction. task of the president is to deal with problems that arise. and i never fully expected there to be a financial meltdown. that we had to deal with. greta: you deal with that