This is the moment george bush has worked for, driven for for so long. George h. W. Bush is on the inaugural platform. The first person he went to was his mother. His whole family is around him. And president reagan. George bush comes in office in many ways in Ronald Reagans shadow. President reagan, i thank you for the wonderful things you have done for america. The question for bush was could he play the role of president , which of course reagan, the great actor, had filled to the brim. America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in a moral principle. We are going to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. My friends, we have work to do. Its kind of surreal that your father is now the one person in the world to be the president of the United States. When our grandfather became president , i asked my friends when her grandfathers inauguration would be. I thought everyones grandfather had one. You could tell from all of them it wasnt just a victory for George Herbert walker bush, this was a victory for the bush family. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, mrs. Bush. George bush and barbara bush had to go to lots of inaugural balls. Now and i know the president is not a great fan of dancing. In, in fact, if you look carefully even though it looks like hes leading, you really know shes in charge. I think its clearly barbara. She played a role through the endless campaigning and accompanying him to new york and beijing and wherever he wanted to go. I have a great question. Barbara bush is someone people can relate to because she speaks her mind and looks the way everyones favorite grandmother looks. People are drawn to that. I will never forget when she became first lady, some reporter asked not thinking who will your designers be . Who will you get your clothes from . She said, im bringing my clothes with me. Typical barbara. Within the next couple days, 250 members of the bush family descended upon the white house. The first visitor to the oval office is president bushs mother, Dorothy Walker bush. Im glad to have my mother here. I can only imagine how proud she must have felt sitting in the oval office and how proud dad must have felt that raised him so well to become president of the United States. What are your thoughts today . The sense of Public Service that animated him as president came from his parents. Now, George Herbert walker bush had a chance to take the familys legacy to a much higher level. But it was up in the air what direction. Astonishing news from east germany where the east German Authorities have said in essence the berlin wall doesnt mean anything anymore. I was sitting in the oval office with the president and i turned the tv on and there were berliners hacking at the wall, coming through the wall. The United States and the soviet union have been locked in a cold war for over 40 years. And all at once, it seems to have disappeared. The world as we had known it all of our adult lives changed fundamentally as the wall came down. Marlin fitswater, who is the press secretary comes into the office and says, mr. President , you need to give a statement. Bush issushoos him away. I dont know what i would say at this moment. Im still trying to process it. He knows its an important moment of his presidency but also knows its a crucial moment for gorbachev. George bush understood he and the world needed gorbachev. If you wanted the leader to stay in power and help create a soft landing for the cold war, you didnt want to humiliate him. George bush is desperately worried he is going to say the wrong thing, he will provoke some form of crackdown or some form of response from the communist world, therefore, bush has to walk the most incredible dangerous tightrope of all. Ahhh, ha. 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It would not have been in his character for him to have started shouting and screaming, its just not him. The wall built in 61 will have very little relevance. It looked like he was indifferent. This was tremendously frustrating to the reporters there. You dont seem elated. Im wondering if hes a very emotional guy. Im handling this properly with allies. George Herbert Walker bush was experienced at diplomacy and some advice from his mother, told him that fist pumping was not always the smart thing to do. I remember the president saying, look, this is a Great Development but its not something we should be gloating about. During the following days, weeks and months, george h. W. Bush leads a series of delicate negotiations with the soviet union. President bush managed that whole process, especially how he handle the russians and gorbachev was, i thought, masterful. He managed to be thoughtful, generous, and at the same time, understanding of the problem from gorbachevs perception. I think if we hadnt sat here and talked we might not have understand this, how each other feels on these important questions. The cold war ends because of mikhail gorbachev. The cold war ends peacefully because of George Herbert walker bush working with mikhail gorbachev. It isnt just the president who finds himself in the media spotlight. When youre in Public Service your children pay such a terrible price. Theyre shortchanged in many ways. They have to give up a lot, their freedom in many ways is curtailed. Some of them have no interest in being a public figure. Marvin for example and dora largely stay away from the limelight. Dora was engaged in charity work and raising beautiful children. I dont think shes ever thought about being in politics. Of all my siblings, my brother, marvin, has probably done the best at dodging public attention. Theres a lot of wisdom in marvins approach. George w. Bush does not process that kind of aversion. When the queen of england comes to the United States and comes to the white house for a state visit, barbara bush tells the queen that shes going to put her son, george w. Bush, as far away from the queen as possible. The queen asks if george w. Is the black sheep . Barbara bush says, yes. After which, the queen says, every family has one. There are still people who think of george w. Bush as the guy who does not possess discipline, kind of all over the place. In the summer of 1985 he has a kind of spiritual awakening with kennebunkport with billy graham, the famous minister. Billy graham says to w. , are you right with god . And w. Says, no, but id like to be. I think this one conversation inspired him to understand faith, live faith, incorporate it into his life. We talk about faith all the time, in fact, we text about it everyday. The bush family has always been gone to church built lowkey episcopal religion. W. Becomes evangelical, accepts christ as his savior unlike the quiet religiosity of his family. I think it grounded him, gave him more of a moral compass. He was better equipped and more able to serve. My mom and dad celebrated my brother turning over this new leaf. George w. Bush has measured himself against his father throughout his entire life. He becomes a pilot, then goes on to yale. He goes into the oil business. His father is his model, his father is his standard. Did george w. Feel his shadow . I imagine he did because everybodifeld overshadowed by h. W. George w. Worked hard, his company grew and future was bright. His oil business was not a complete home run and he wanted to do something in business and have the opportunity to be succesul. Baseball is the bush game. George was captain of the yale baseball team. One thing his father wanted to do he never got to do. Get a load of that catch. Which is own a baseball team. George w. 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He asked dad to wear a texas ranger hat when he goes out on his fishing expeditions and has his mother, the first lady, come and throw out the baseball for a game. He gets in on the act and shows a kind of kaniness that people had not expected of george w. Bush. He is also really good with the media. Hes great at managing people. Hes decisive. He loves being around players. Gives them all nicknames. He has this encyclopedic statistical knowledge about the sport of baseball. Hes really loving the job. Thank you for being with us and welcome to abilene. Thanks, guys. Nice to be back. Actually a brilliant Public Relations move, perfect bridge from being what he had been before and what he would soon become. Theres amazing parallels between politics and baseball. You have to be able to communicate to your fans. If youre running in politics you have to be able to Community Skate to your voters. While george w. Benefits from the family name, his brother neil, finds being a bush has its drawbacks. New questions surfacing about the role of neil bush and the failure of silverado savings and loan. By 1990, the savings and loan business in america is foundering. It so happens that neil bush, the third son of george and barbara bush, was on the board of silverado, a coloradobased savings and loan institution. Silverado was one of many savings and loans companies that have collapsed after funding loans through increasingly risky investments. Was worth a million six and after running through the silverado buzz saw, im a person who has roughly 7 and a grocery repeat. Silverado is an example of a poorly managed savings and loan. When it gets scrutinized, neil bushs life is thrown into turmoil. The president s son has denied any wrongdoing and scheduled to testify tomorrow. The savings and loan industry was failing, yet one institution was selected for the board of directors to be brought before congress, to be made a spectacle of. I honestly believe i was being used as a political kind of tool to get at my father. You have in washington a Democratic House of representatives, a democratic senate. And i think they see in neil bush a political opportunity, to use the savings and loan crisis against neil bush, by extension his father. Mr. Kennedy, i for one am not somebody that would necessarily like to see some son of a famous political leader under the gun this morning, neil. Neil is accused of acting improperly as a board director, by approving loans from silverado to his personal business partners. I was interrogated by congress. Joe kennedy was one of the congressman at the time. My friend who worked with the kennedys before, said, joe, he will be good, dont worry about joe. It was in fact a great deal of emotional by the leaders of silverado. Joe comes out of the blocks and attacks me. Youre saying there was no conflict of interest even though youre saying there was a conflict of interest on 2 27 . Yes. Well there never was a conflict of interest in 1987. My brother, marve, saw joe kennedy at a congressional barbecue at the white house. He basically challenged him. They almost went to fisticuffs. I think our family would do anything for each other. As president , george h. W. Bush must let the investigation take its course, whatever the outcome. I agree the president ought to stay out of it and that the system ought to work. I have great confidence in the integrity and honor of my son. This is not easy for me, the father. Its easy for me as the president because the systems going to work. George bush doesnt say the system is against my son. George bush says i have respect for the system and the system will decide if my son is guilty or innocent. I will not intervene. Ive not discussed this with any officials, suggested any outcome. Saying that is difficult for him. Thank you all very much. Not because he thinks his son is guilty but because hes a father. He wants to protect his son. In a lawsuit filed by federal regulators, neil bush and the other silverado directors are accused of acting with gross negligence. Neil agrees to pay 50,000 in an out of court settlement. I was given a slap on the hand as an administrative action, yet signs were put all over the place, throw the bum in jail. My life in denver as a business guy was kind of destroyed. Its so painful for both president bush and first lady, barbara bush. They know sometimes some of the attention thats drawn to their children is because they are in the white house and george bush is president of the United States. That doubles the pain for them. A little warmer today. George bush is also facing a dramatic down turn in the economy. George Herbert Walker bush is facing a yawning federal deficit and a collapsing Property Market in the american southwest. So, he went to his tough to economic advisors and said, tell me what we can do about the deficit. So he did what he had to do, which was raise taxes. Read my lips. Breaking his pledge from the convention, and many republicans never for gave him. We had been promised something, told something emphatically. He had given us his word, and then he pulled the rug out from under us and made fools out of us. He understood this might make him a one term president , but he felt that the National Debt and the budget deficit were so important that it was worth sacrificing his political best interests for what he thought was the best interests of the country. As the president struggles with a failing economy, hes also preparing america for the possibility of war. What does help for Heart Failure look like . It looks like george having a busy day. 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