bravery and combat, the congressional medal of honor. when they were kids, they saw the medal in a box in his den. but like a few million other children of gis, susan, rick and mick bush are only now learning to appreciate how many of their father s behavior toward them was formed by the war experiences he kept to himself. probably don t remember anything relating to the war until i was 12 or 13 years old. i don t remember my first recollection of realizing he had a glass eye. it certainly wasn t until i was probably in my early teens. when bob bush was a teenager, he was receiving his medal of honor from president harry truman in ceremonies on the white house lawn. bush was 18. the age that most kids are graduating from high school. only a few months earlier, he had wayne marine medic on the island of okinawa.
can you imagine you working eight days a week? no. i can t. we love you guys. i love you too. we ll see you later. i don t want to wake up and be 75 and go, gee, i guess i retire now and spend some time with my family. i want to do it as i go along. it was good get together. rick is a real challenge. this guy is a real challenge. and i m saying, whatever happened to this four-letter word work? when do we work? it is absolutely the reverse of the way we did it. the world war ii boys that came home with the same determination that i had, all of them were successful and they built the country. and they understand the success and failures of war. when you ve been there, there s not too much, too many surprises that will shake you up. .
bush did under 2000. having gays and lesbians served is based on capability, not orientation. this is not new. why did he leave? he left, as you saw, because he felt he wasn t effective in his capacity. story became more about rick than the candidate. i know there was frugs frustration on rick s part about not getting out into the field. why did they stop inviting him to meetings? why did the campaign den grate and demote his position because they were taking heat from the far right. the campaign wanted rick to stay on. they were very aggressive to having him stay on. they say that in statements but in fact the in the campaign they weren t inviting him to meetings. look, chris, i m not speaking for the campaign. i know they wanted to stay. there are colleagues of mine and from the administration let s go back. the evidence here under the inside of the campaign is that they were demoting him in terms of, when you are frozen out of
ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues is greatly diminished by the hyper partisan discussion. it sometimes comes from a presidential campaign. i want it thank governor romney for my belief in me and his clear message to me that being openly gay is a nonto me. what do you make of what happened here? this is a high profile position spokesman on foreign policy. i just din dint grated that he has foreign policy in his soul. but let s get to this issue. governor romney is on record as saying would he hire gays and lesbians in his campaign. they were there before rick got there. they are still there. no different that what george
meetings on foreign policy is what you are supposed to be speaking on, i get the message. what is telling about rick s statement is yes maybe romney made clear to him that his being gay wasn t an issue. but romney didn t make that clear to the american people or those criticizing rick as a member of his team. they were silent on all of that criticism. and the suggestion that an openly gay person who happened it have the audacity to be a decate for his equal equality on law through marriage is a liability to the campaign. i think that s most telling thing is that romney was silent. the romney foreign policy adviser reflected in blame of the resignation from the campaign. let s listen to how he doesn t mention mitt romney. when the campaign learned that he was considering stepping down, the campaign went out of its way it persuade him to stay. everyone from the campaign manager to senior foreign policy