fact, the very fact that bush was named as vice president, if you remember, back in 1980, reagan was enamored with what i think everybody ended up thinking was a terrible idea, of a kind of copresidency was gerald ford. he was involved in negotiations in detroit at the republican national convention, and then it all fell apart. suddenly, wednesday night, they don t have a vice president. obviously, bush had run the strongest race, had gotten the most delegates, second only to reagan, and reagan come at the last minute decided, let s go with bush. so it was not his first choice but i think that they had a close political partnership, if not a close personal partnership. and lord knows, george h.w. bus george h.w. bush, and eight years, there was never a hint of any dissent, of any separate agenda, he was just utterly loyal, at least to what the
she said, that guy is going to be running for president, the governor of texas. why don t you put him on? i said, sure, can we do the whole family? so we did the whole family. it was kind of fun to be told, or kidded no more prodded by mrs. bush, and so we interviewed them both together, and jeb was also part of it, and president george w. bush was able to speak to the team, and they rallied for the greatest comeback in history of the ryder cup. he was the governor at the time, and ben crenshaw and the guys came back and won at brookline and president george h.w. bush the other day, i ask him the next day if, in fact, he was the one that was able to rally them and he was way too humble, and said, i just gave them a few words of encouragement, i will not take credit for those. bret: listen, this is a sports family.
convention in 1988 when he became the nominee, was to talk about a kinder, gentler presidency and approach to thing prayed that that thousand points of light, to sort of establish what his agenda was going to bet different than but as something of a departure, something of a turn from reagan s agenda. bret: a lot of people, chris, don t remember the assassination attempt in april of 1993 after president h.w. bush left the white house, he went to kuwait to be commemorated for his role in the first gulf war, and there was an assassination attempt. kuwaiti authorities arrested eventually 17 people they felt were around this conspiracy to kill than the former president using a car bomb. there was a a lot of talk about possibly who was behind this. united states sent to various
washington, worked in the white house, work in public service, that i hope is something that they treasure and now is remarkable and people who take up the leadership mantle of our country. bret: brad blakeman is with us, i go back to the world war ii time, the youngest aviator, brad, in the u.s. navy, 1944, september 2nd, his plane shot down, rescued in the pacific ocean. he rejoins his squadron. he received several honors from the military and from his country and often times, as we talk about george h.w. bush, we focus on his time as president. but it was much more than that. it was. i was with him, we had one of our largest sea battles, the first time he had been back to that area probably since he was shot down. one of the few times i saw him
of the limelight, throwing out the first pitch before a 2016 baseball game, and pregame ceremonies months later at the super bowl in his houston home town. reuniting with his former running mate and vice president dan quayle in july, and then catching a glimpse of the rare eclipse that crossed the country alongside his family in maine in august. one of bush s last public appearances was that his beloved wife, barbara, a part of his funeral, where he met with former presidents, first ladies, and the current first lady, melania trump. he recently returned to his vacation home town of kennebunkport, maine, joining fellow veterans with a pancake breakfast before he was hospitalized. this was the first time in decades that neither he nor his wife attended the annual memorial day parade. he wrote in a tweet, i am forever grateful not only to