a swing vote. walter isaacson, professor of history at tulane, thank you very much. he has a very popular class. walter we re coming down and we re going to we re going to talk. no, we will listen to walter talk. no, you re going to talk and mr. meacham and i will find the restrooms for. i like it. all right. it s a date. what do you think? especially i think it will be a big reveal and end up being one of the two candidates that are whittled down. probably a woman. i actually the thing to look for is actually what walter talked about at the end that is chief justice roberts who swroetd the conservative block overwhelmingly the majority of the time. when he didn t, it was to uphold the affordable care act, obamacare. and he did that in part, i think most court observers said he did
jeb, keep it short, don t drag this out. people have already heard enough remarks already. and most of all, don t get weepy. remember, i spent decades laughing and living a life with these people. and that is true. barbara bush filled our lives with laughter and joy. in the case of our family, she is our teacher and role model in how to live a life with purpose and meaning. on behalf of our family, we want to thank the thousands and thousands of expressions of condolence and love for our precious mother. with want to thank mom s care givers for their compassionate care. i want to thank neil and maria for their next door family love of our parents.anthank john and their eloquent words. meacham, you might have been a little long, but it was beautiful. we want to thank russ and laura for their friendship and pastoral care of our parents. and we want to thank all that are gathered here to celebrate
gratitude that she lived so long and so well and she was not she didn t really suffer at tend of her life terribly the way some people do, she died with great dignity and on her own terms, rare and blessed thing. shepard: 41 was with maria, it s worth the google, i thought it was quite nice and part of what i ve been taking from this family over the last few days is this is how you can act when people live full and wonderful life pass, this is a way to celebrate. one of the things that she talked and several others did too is that she had a great faith, she believes in after life, she said that her soul will be okay and that everybody else could go on, live life, live it with love and humor. i was thinking she play sod many different roles, john meachum
shepard: celebrating the life of the first lady of the greatest generation with a nod to john meachum, the presidential historian. i m shepherd smith outside of st. martin episcopal church with thousands gather and officers line the street on a cloudy and looks like it might rain day. ly tell you, though, earlier i was speaking to assistant pastors at the church who said to me quietly in aa a room across the street, it would take a lot of nerve to rain on barbara s funeral. we shall see.
the other first lady who produced a son who became president, all of these matirarchs, adams and roosevelt and rose kennedy and now barbara bush, we look at them as the glue that keeps the families together because first of all they have strong personalities and often times their husbands are becoming great men, great businessmen, great lawyers on the way to becoming presidents of the united states. these women, we should say not just great matriarchs, but the traditional role for ages and particularly of women of the world war ii era, they were the home makers and making a live for the large families. it s just being there, showing up, that they were there and certainly barbara bush was there but also as was quoted from john