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
prepared and be loyal, was the title of that. you talked about after yourself and the president were inaugurated january 20, 1989 and he discussed ronald regan a bit to you, as ronald regan left. why did you choose those words, be prepared and loyal? he said that to you. he did. we talked about what the quail model would be. and i said look very much like the bush model and he says no, you have your own model you ll do your thing and it ll be different than mine. i was very very fortunate to not only work with him as a great individual but he had been vice president for eight years, and he knew the good things about being vice president and the not so good things about being vice president, so that was a blessing from my perspective but what he said to me on the steps of the capitol as we said goodbye to ronald regan and nancy reagan, he turned to me and sort of his low voice, he
loved life. he was the chairman of the republican national committee during water gate. and led the cia. and went onto other points of service. so this is someone who it really is a american legacy that we don t see anymore. not just the family name. of bush. but for so much more of the service. if you think about that resume he brought when he was elected president of the united states. he served two terms as vice president. with reagan. in 1988 he was elected took office january 20, 1989. he brought all that service all that record from congress from the cia to u.s. ambassador to china. incredible resume. you cannot think of a resume like that. never mind he was vice president and ran against ronald reagan. example of a moment many time we don t see as much today.
after leaving the white house until her passing in april of this year. the longest married presidential couple in history at 73 years, and we ve been watching as people bring flowers here to the gates of this community including a couple of funeral wreaths that were hung earlier today joining some of the other bouquets and american flags that have been left behind to honor the combat navy pilot who flew 58 missions in world war ii, the son of a senator, the father of a president and a governor. george h.w. bush was a congressman, an ambassador to the u.n., director of the cia and, of course, a two-term vice president under ronald reagan before his four years in the white house beginning january 20, 1989. and in a statement his son, the former president george w. bush wrote after 94 remarkable years, our dear dad has died. george h.w. bush was the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. the entire bush family is deeply grateful for 41st life and love, for the compassion of those w
loss he had asked his tad where did you find the strength to be so gracious, and 41 said i had no choice. uh-huh. absolutely. again, country first, never about himself. just truly a selfless person. dana: yeah. and immediately, and even, you know, i was working in the white house after that painful lots in 1992, and his immediate direction to the staff as george w. bush s direction to the staff was do everything you can possible to make it easy for the next guy. dana: yeah. for bill clinton. and he did and we did. and that is really a lesson in leadership that we were all so lucky to have that example in the white house from both father and son, as you know. and from ronald reagan. dawn deign indeed. absolutely. who left george h.w. bush a note on january 20, 1989, that said don t let the turkeys get you down.