Very well in politics. He reached the highest peak. He was the president of the United States. But we must remember as has been pointed out in this statement that was released he was a texing otexas oil pioneer. He was a very successful businessman. He really gave that up to serve his country in another way outside of the military. Absolutely. There is an expression, you see this at his president ial library, i mean his office, his personal motto, he has two of them. One was faith, family and friends. And the second was to your point, any definition of a successful life must include service to others. So while a lot of people think of him as being raised in
grinwhich, and a new england born and bred welltodo family, he did go out and make his fortune, and he was pretty humble once he started out. Once he made money, he turned back to what he thought was most important, which was Public Service. Lets go onto talk about as well, so he became the 41st president of the United States, survi
george, i haven t seen anybody fall that fast that s run for president. i want you to standby, david, and i want to bring in cnn s wolf blitzer. wolf blitzer is traveling with the current president now. wolf, if you can hear me wolf, can you hear me? i hear you. you became white house correspondent shortly after bush left office, if my timing is accurate. but certainly his legacy carried on into that administration you were covering in that white house. well, i was the pentagon correspondent for cnn while he was president of the united states, don. and i remember vividly covering all of his aspects as president of the united states, including of course during the first gulf war operation desert shield and operation desert storm. remember it was in august of 1990 he was president of the united states. dick cheney was then the defense
secretary. and all of a sudden saddam hussein invaded kuwait. it was august 1st, august 2nd, 1990 and there was enormous uncertainty what was going to happen next. with the iraqis, they were moving through kuwait like a knife through butter. there was nothing stoppy the iraqis through kuwait, and president bush, he had to make some critically important decisions. and he made very important decisions to send a very strong signal through the defense secretary, through the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general colin powell at the time, the u.s. was going to respond militarily. eventually as we all know in january of 1991 the u.s. did respond in operation desert shield became operation desert storm. and within a few weeks the air war had done its mission and then the ground war.
accomplishments in that way. i want to bring back in david gergen who s a presidential advisor to pick up on what wolf blitzer was talking about. we have to remember during that time, david, there was the first gulf war that we dealt with. operation desert shield which became operation desert storm, but it lasted for less than a month from january 16th, 1991 to february 27th, 1991 where the u.s. declared victory in iraq. i m wondering how much that had to do with the outcome of that particular election. well, you know, the there are two things that i think from a foreign policy standpoint stand out and then we can move to the politics of it. i think were particularly instructive how they handled foreign policy well and be successful at it.
easing fears about a double dip recession. don? alison, all week we have heard outrage over bank of america s debit card fee. what happened to the outrage? oh, yeah. so everybody has been outraged after bank of america is going to tack on a fee to your debit card early yex year. this woman took her outrage one step further. so what she did was started an online petition. she has gathered already 150,000 signatures on it. she went ahead and presented it at a bank of america branch and sat on the sidewalk before this, though, and cut up her credit card and debit card and closed her account. so she appeared this morning on good morning america and said that the teller didn t seem very phased by it. she didn t really have a reaction. i went in, gave the petitions, and then i closed my bank account and that was kind of it. reporter: she said that she left her 4$400 in cash and intends to stick it in a credit union. that s her choice. alison kosik, thank you. new robo