president. let s bring in bill mcgurn a former speech writer for president george h.w. bush and mary anne march, former senior advisor to john kerry. i agree with brit this is a national moment of unity. i think over the years people have come to appreciate president george h.w. bush, not only his achievements in office but that the virtues he had that were so consonant with the man. a lot of people noted he was born into privilege, yale and so forth but what is less often noted the privilege of his generation came with obligations. i think there is no more moving story than to read when he was still in high school and his uncle, the senator and secretary of war was saying stay in school when the war broke out. don t do anything. get your college degree. on his 18th birthday he signed up for the united states navy and was at one point the
secretary of war, stillp son, who was a family friend, suggested get some seasoning before you go into the war. you ll be a better office. he enlisted immediately and became one of the youngest aviators in the pacific theater. at the time, i believe he was the youngest aviator maybe that s up for debate? we used to say he was the youngest and then we found some guy that was four days younger. so now we say second youngest. he was really, really young. yes. with that youth, like so many of his generation, the greatest generation, he had to deal with unbelievable mind bending pressure, tragedy and just raw war. and he had loss. terrible loss and tremendous responsibility. i think it s important, he s only 19, 20 years s during thi period. a bomber, a three-person crew. 1944, he was shot down over the
academy, andover, he heard a speech by henry stimpsen, who was also a graduate of that school, as am i, and stimpson, who had been secretary of state and secretary of war then under fdr gave a speech about service, and bush listened to the speech, and he went off and he enlisted in the navy as a pilot, and he was the youngest pilot in the entire navy. 18 years old, as jon meacham knew him budge better than i did indicadid much better than i did. from the point he was 18 years old until his death he was always involved in service to others of one kind or another, and both he embodied that spirit of service that has built the united states and made us a beacon of hope and decency to the world, arguably until now. he not only embodied it, but
t to the presidency, and the civil war was won, but a southerner was president. if you real the articles of impeachment i don t recommend it, that s why you have me, you can outsource them you ll find the congress being outraged about the attacks that johnson has made on them. what they did is they found a legal occasion to try to remove him in one particular statute. wasn t that being secretary of war a part of it? they found the occasion. it was a very part of the reason my hair is gray now is trying to figure out the tenure of office act. it was a law passed to try to protect lincoln appointees. johnson violated it at one moment, then would follow it in another. the point being and i think the point for us in this new century, is that a majority wanted to find a way to remove
is he somebody we want to see on the supreme court for a lifetime appointment? that s really the question. nothing else matters. no statute of little tatimitati. no due process even. none of that matters. never say never and never say always. absolutely. anne, good to see you again. danny, thanks as always. brett kavanaugh insists he s not going anywhere, but if he withdraw, why his replacement might be further to the right than people who don t like kavanaugh s eye dee ideology. it s judge william hasty, the first african-american federal judge and a contender for the supreme court back in the day. hasty was born in 1904 in knoxville, tennessee. graduated from harvard law school in 1933. he was appointed to the u.s. district court for the virgin islands in 1937, making him the first black federal judge in the united states history. during world war ii, hasty was an aide to the secretary of war but he resigned over the