the white house lawn. he says no one lands on the white house lawn except the president of the united states. that kind of presence of mind to know his place and not take advantage of something. what really struck me and stayed with me through really until now is, he wrote all of these notes. he was known for his notes and then they were put together in a note. he hated the word i. i know that was an old how often do you hear a politician let alone a president shy away from the word i ? these days we look back through a very different prism at our presidents, and whether you agree or disagree on what he did, there is something about the makeup of the man and the motivation of the man that seems like an era that s unfortunately gone, that we very much need
so many oh bish abituaobituary, real progress in cooperation with global leaders. help us understand his legacy in that con texas. he was so well qualified to the commander in chief from his military service as an 18-year-old all the way to debeg an ambassador, a u.s. envoy to china, having been a member of the house in congress. all of those different roles prepared him and, of course, cia director, now at a time when the intelligence community is so under fire from the white house. he was a revered cia director as perhaps his favorite post are and the cia building at langley is named in his honor. he really drove down on the intelligence, loved absorbing every bit of it and understood it, and was very deeply engaged
the same sense of wonder and respect i felt four years ago. i know you will feel that, too. i wish you great happiness here. i noever felt the loweliness soe presidents felt. there were be tough times. goes on to say, made difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. i m not a very good one to give advice, but just don t let the critics discourage you or push you. of course, you will be our president when you read this note. i wish you well, i wish your family well and concludes, your success now is our country s success. i am rooting for you. good luck. george. the graciousness of that. the personal note, and also the sense of history is, i think, profoundly moving. thank you for reminding us of that, andrea. stay with us, if you would. i turn now to garrett haake at tinsley park. what do we know about what is planned in the coming days? something the bush family workedals diwork
relationships and respect for multilateralism. respect for nato and for those institutions, those postworld war ii institutions. foreign aid was not to help other countries alone primarily in america s interests to spend money, like half of 1% of the budget, on foreign aid to help as the marshall plan did, to rebuild. and a strong ally an economic powerhouse which wouldn t have happened, europe would not have been rebuilt would you american help and japan, without american help. all of that is in america s interesting because we re a global leader. that was his view and it will at some point return to the forefront, because the world needs america s leadership. it doesn t need china filling those vacuums by moving in all over africa and other countries and taking advantage of these countries and not building
in foreign policy. knew of these world leaders not only in personal diplomacy but in using the exercise of american leadership in global affairs, in multilateral organizations. everything has now been rejected by the trump republican party is what he celebrated in a bipartisan way. i think of the legacy here at home, because when i was no longer covering the white house and on capitol hill, i would see the other end of the budget negotiations, and that was the moment where he faithfully violated his own no new taxes ple pledge and arguably from that and pago, to pay for new expenditures and try to reduce the deficit leading to balanced budgets, this was the legacy on the economic side that made it possible for bill clinton to also do the budget deal of 1993, you know, with no republican