fall from his own weight. he thought the mission was done and didn t want the loss of american lives in that war was particularly low. but in the end, it didn t go the way president bush had thought it would go. and i admire the fact that he put the united nations at its pinnacle. we did something that was right, we reversed an aggression, and he exactly defined it as we fulfilled the mandate and then we left. the fact that he more or less intimated an excuse for his son in the second war, that was strategic in the highest proportion. h.w. bush had restored the balance of power and left the region more or less stable. what we did in 2003, much to my
air, the author who wrote about him, described him as the last gentleman. he was also the last president to start, fight and finish a war. and i think most importantly he was a president who represented a moderate brand of republicanism, certainly the last of those that we ve seen. there has been an evolution in the republican party, we now see all of the way to donald trump. i can t think of two republican presidents more different than george h.w. bush and president trump and of course there was a bridge in between in george w. bush who had moved more conservative than his mother, who had to do that to become the nominee of the republican party. who talked about his compassion and conservatism and socially conservative than his father who famously had alien ated the economic conservatives in his party but raising taxes as part of the budget deal. jonathan alter, there are people who have said this morning, be careful not to
canonize or venerate george h.w. bush. and i hope what we re doing is remembering him accurately. but in the context of the day something that jonathan allen just mentioned, george h.w. bush looked good any way. but it makes him look more good. yes. so look at just that handwritten note to bill clinton. it was sometimes said dismissively of george bush that he hand wrote his way to the presidency. he wrote thousands of these personal notes. that is the way he communicated. compare that to tweeting. these notes were gracious. thoughtful. they were thoughtful. they were friendly. did he make mistakes? yes. some of them were pretty big ones. putting dan quayle, a heartbeat from the presidency, putting clarence thomas on the supreme court and saying afterward he was the most qualified person to be on the supreme court which was not true. i could go on. but those have to be seen in the
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efrtd to rea effort to reach across the aisle. this is interesting. he did have an ability to reach across the aisle, which was more common back then than now any way. he had difficulty within his own party. he had conservatives who didn t think he was of them. and he had a new breed of neoconservative who didn t think he was of them. right. he was though he lived most of his life in texas, he was a new england republican. he was born in massachusetts. grew up in connecticut. you tell me, ali, how many new england republicans are there in federal office right now. yeah. that s exactly right. michael, good to see you. thank you. great to see you. next up a closer look at president bush s legendary sense of humor. i like a colorful sock. i m a sock man. this is a modest pair here today. subdued, you might say. they have been comparing your