there on the screen. unfortunately at that time, mr. mr. ruth was ravaged with cancer but he was able, as the captain of the yale baseball team to be able to meet him, and it was a proud moment for him, and you saw that pitch he throughout and it always bothered president bush that he bounced that ball. he was a great baseball player in college and so when his son, george w. bush, throughout the first pitch after the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001, he always remembered that his father bounced the ball and how much it bothered him so when derek jeter came in and told them, don t bounce the ball, mr. president, it refresh all of those memories and president bush 43 went out and threw a perfect strike to help lift the nation to get onto some sense of normalcy. president bush sr. he also loved golf. he was a terrific fan of the game of golf. he would show up and i would
former arkansas governor bill clinton. bush traveled to kuwait to commemorate the gulf war in 1993. an assassination plot on his life was uncovered by bush was unharmed. it was later discovered the part of poorly orchestrated plan was the work of the iraqi intelligence service. the kuwaiti court would convict all but one of the defendants. bush retired to texas with barbara, getting in a few rounds of horseshoes and celebrating countless birthdays buy birthdays by parachuting out of planes. spending time with her family in maine and reliving memories of when he was a boy. i can honestly say that the three most rewarding titles bestowed upon me are the three that i have got to left: husband, father, and granddad. bret: while retired, his life was active until the end. joining forces with former political flow bill clinton to raise money for the victims of
respond to him, not as the vice president at the time, but as george h.w. bush, somebody that they knew and felt a very personal connection to. when i had the chance to travel with him, to talk with him, i was so to this day, so impressed with him, among all the politicians i have ever met, because he was not only a war hero, but remember, he had been our first envoy sent by richard nixon to china. when i went to the olympics, i guess it was 2008 in china, i remember talking to him about china, and remember, his son, george w. bush, spent a lot of time in china because his dad had been there as the envoy. and then of course he goes on and heads the cia, the republican national committee, vice president, having previously served as a congressman, and then president of the united states.
joon kim to hand him a pair of presidential cufflinks. i thought, what a remarkable, amazing man, did you something like that, because he got a ridn the golf cart. he was wonderful to be around and he loved to play golf, and fast golf. in fact, he was so touched and love the fact that all arnold palmer told him that he had been a great contributor to the game of golf, that not everyone is like jack nicklaus, who can play for hours and hours, and president bush love the fact tht arnold palmer told him it was great for the game that he played in two hours or two and half hours. bret: hey, jim, it s bret baier. you are right, the bushes played fast. i only played with them once, brit hume used to play with them a lot in maine. they could move it on the golf course. they did. it was boom, boom, boom.
personnel to kuwait to investigate on their own, and they eventually came to the intelligence of the united states government concluded that iraq was behind the attempted car bombing. when we talk about president george h.w. bush we often don t talk about the assassination attempt after he leaves the white house, but it was real. chris: correct my memory, but as we are talking about this, i believe that bill clinton, his successor, then had a missile strike on baghdad on a couple of installations there as punishment for this attempt. bret: that s exactly right. chris: there was always some thought that when bush 43, his son, got involved in a rock, that there was a census obviously wasn t the prime reason, but of envision s business, like saddam hussein wt after his father, and that was perhaps in the background a