our dear dad has died. george w. bush was the man of the highest character and best son or daughter cooling ask for. those who cared and prayed for dad and condolences of our friends and fellow citizens. emily: as well his son jeb bush sr. nothing gave my campy more job support for others especially supporting and caring for those who risk making the ultimate sacrifice every day. kind ler and gentler to love each other. we will his minimum dearly. ed: so important to mention family there robin was the daughter that was born who died at the age of 4. it is so moving throughout their entire lives george and barbara bush talked about how devastating that was for them political cartoonist who did an image
emily: he died last night after eight months of the loss of his wife barbara. ed: we will be staying with this all morning. as we heard michael elliott talk about how he felt like this former president treated him with great respect and i mentioned that secret service agents and officers have told me the same thing. i remember hearing that bush 41 started a tradition that his son bush 43 continued. which is on thanksgiving or christmas, typically a president could go anywhere. they would go to the ranch. and he would always stay at the white house. and the reason he did that was not about his family. it was about the secret service and the support staff. when you go to another location, not the white house, for a holiday, you need more secret service personnel. that meant more secret service personnel away from their own families. so he would like to do
he is the most decent, honorable, wonderful. nobody has ever been as lucky as i have been. i want people to remember him as courageous. i want them to remember him as he is. todd: take a step back for a moment. 73 years in a day and age when relationships last 73 days in some instances. 73 years. started so very young. with all the trials and contributiontrials andtribulatie as a couple magnified by a war. magnified by so many different things. ed: magnified by the death of their daughter robin only 4 years old. that walls very trying for them, obviously. emily: one of my favorite quotes by barbara bush was when she said i had none of the responsibilities and all of the joy of being his
away. todd: always put the american people first. we are americans. part of something larger than ourselves. for two centuries we have done the hard work of freedom and tonigh we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity. emily: he died last night nearly eight months of the of the death of his wife barbara. ed: jason chaffetz fox news contributor and co-host of the five juan williams. welcome, gentlemen, both of you by the way. juan, you were out on the campaign trail with george h.w. bush at least going back to 1984. oh, yeah. ed, i will tell you i feel
memorable for me in 1992, again, an election was lost, everybody is feeling down. and what does george h.w. bush do he calls dana carvy and directly at snl. my staff is feeling down. would you come and just sort of cheer them up? and sat in the sawed yebs and watched. ed: we will play some of that later. i didn t know that i m sorry. ed: no. no. you are setting the table wonderfully. he did make fun of himself. i want to fast forward to 2014. sure. ed: george w. bush wrote a book he wrote one about 41. starts the book in late 2014. it s about his to be his father s 90th birthday he gets a call your father wants to go skydiving again. he finds his dad sitting at walker s point looking at the atlantic ocean. is he nervous as a son is he