interview him regularly at the ryder cups and the president,s, and his father, his grandfather, george herbert walker, created h come along with the ryder cup, one of the staples and traditions of golf. i also got to see him and play golf with president bush, 1995, a tremendous story when he golfed with president clinton and president ford. they joined bob hope and he won that day. he shot a 92. he also hit two fans that day, one off the first tea required 14 stitches and the 14th t hit a woman in the rear end. it was funny on the first one but not so funny on the 14th. it was so funny because bob hope made a living commenting how many times president ford would hit people but he beat president clinton by a stroke
seems reborn, for in man s heart, if not, in fact, the day of the dictator is over. bret: george bush as hard as test as president was giving the green light for operation desert storm. but he is credited with rescuing the tiny, oil-rich nation of kuwait from saddam hussein s million man army of iraq. the forge george herbert walker bush took his first step into the white house, he learned to walk in kennebunkport, maine. during to born june 12th, 1924, and the town of milton, massachusetts, to a family alrey deeply involved in public service, he was the second of five children to dorothy and senator prescott bush. with high school behind him, george was accepted at yale university, but put his education on hold. the start of the second world war beckoned him to serve his country instead. in 1942, george bush celebrated his 18th birthday by enlisting in the u.s. naval reserve. within a year, he was ensign
we will bring in chris wallace. we want to read a tweet from jeb bush. nothing gave him his leadership taught us to be kinder and gentler, true love each other. we will miss him dearly. chris, that is going to be a very interesting conversation for this country to have. as we talked about, it will likely be very bipartisan over the next couple of days, as we remember the life of this very special man and former presiden president. chris: absolutely. there is a sense in the country now that it s a zero-sum game, that one side wins, the other side loses, and that was not the way that george h.w. bush view to life and certainly not the way he viewed politics, as i said earlier, he was very competitive, very tough, fought hard for a variety of positions, fought hard to become president, and was certainly
you could just tell that president bush really, really cared about sports. he called me one time after the mike tyson ear biting, and he wanted to know what kind of a guy mike tyson was. i said, he s wonderful to be around, and he had made a despicable, horrible mistake and incident that night, but a just break into so much that i thought that tyson was wonderful and he said, i don t want to judge him. he s a great boxer. he was really interested in so many different sports, and had a genuine love. it was great to be around. i asked him how many games he would watch in the white house and he said we have a pretty good satellite system, bret and shannon. i watched quite a bit of it. shannon: one of the perks of being in the white house. bret: your reflections are great. thank you. he was a wonderful man. i was lucky to spend the time with him and he was a joy, he was a joyous guy who was very, very humble. decency beyond belief.
choices based on the values that have been instilled in you and if it is gratitude, dignity, humility, patriotism, and the number one thing is unconditional love for your family, and that is something that i really learned from them and have tried to keep in mind as the days get hard, you get busy, you get irritated, this is a time of incivility, but it s a choice, and he taught us how to make it well. bret: i just want to touch really quickly on the bipartisan nature of all this. juan williams, george h.w. bush could reach across the aisle. he just could. in the post-presidency time, he did it during his presidency, and there are people who look at it and say, why is he doing it with bill clinton or when george w. bush hands a mentor to michelle obama at the funeral, don t they know?