bay area and back down cali is where they put their mac down california suge was trying to expand death row all over the country. but who controlled most of the music in the east at that time? bad boy. papi, fab five freddie s here. oh, what up? what s going on? everything. it s all good in the hood. sean puffy combs founded bad boy and biggie smalls was his marquee artist. they modeled their sound on death row in a lot of ways, kind of a gangster rap for the east coast. jump in the rover and come over tell your friends in the gsv i got the chronic by the i love it when you call me big papa throw your hands in the air if yous a true playa i make music about what i know. know what i m saying? if i worked in mcdonald s, i d have made rhymes about big macs and fries and stuff like that. you know what i m saying? brooklyn, i see hustling, i see killing, i see gambling, i see girls, i see cars. that s what i rap about, what s in my environment.
suge was trying to expand death row all over the country. but who controlled most of the music in the east at that time? bad boy. papi, fab five freddie s here. oh, what up? what goes on? what s going on? everything. it s all good in the hood. sean puffy combs founded bad boy and biggie smalls was his marquee artist. they modeled their sound on death row in a lot of ways, kind of a gangster rap for the east coast. jump in the rover and come over tell your friends in the gsv i got the chronic by the i love it when you call me big papa throw your hands in the air if yous a true playa i make music about what i know. know what i m saying? if i d have worked in mcdonald s, i d have made rhymes about big macs and fries and stuff like that. you know what i m saying? brooklyn, i see hustling, i see killing, i see gambling, i see girls, i see cars. that s what i rap about, what s in my environment. keep banging and the winner is
strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice. isolationism in the pursuit of security is no virtue. with that, i d like to welcome in my panel. with me, msnbc contributor jon meacham, the author of destiny and power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush. also with me washington bureau chief for the usa today, susan page. the author of the matriarch, barbara bush and the making of an american dynasty. and the former senate majority leader during george h.w. bush s presidency, george mitchell. jon meacham, i d like to start with you since you spent so much time with the former president. what was he like as a person, as a leader, and to that question that we raised at the end, are we going to see somebody like that again? there was an innate grace to george h.w. bush. he was nicknamed papi as a child. he and his father had the same name. more interestingly, he was called half half bush because when he had a candy bar he d cut it in half and give it to the other kid
that we raised at the end, are we going to see somebody like that again? there was an innate grace to george h.w. bush. he was nicknamed papi as a child. he and his father had the same name. more interestingly, he was called half half bush because when he had a candy bar he d cut it in half and give it to the other kid. better than i was. better than most of us. he knew that to whom much is given, much is expected. and he came out of that ethos of the roosevelts. he very much believed that he had been given an enormous amount in life and, therefore, owed everything he could to the country. it started when he was 18 years old. on his 18th birthday, he turned 18, graduated from high school and joined the united states navy. on that saturday. and he enlisted in the navy instead of going to college right away? exactly. and tried to go to canada for a
tried and tried, was unreachable. we really thought that she d gone, kind of lost hope, i guess. back in indiana, that night the news ever worse, john turned on his computer and read that last email from zac. he sent it at literally two minutes before the earthquake hit. what was it? a birthday greeting. that said what? happy birthday, love you. it said much more than that though. dearest rock and papi, happy birthday. woo-hoo, the big 5-0. the more and more time we spend apart the more i realize how amazing a father and friend you have been to me over the years and have always given me a perfect example of how a man and woman is to treat his wife. i was thinking, god, is this the last thing i hear from my son, you know? and it s that? yeah. saturday morning, more than