something that was impolitic. george would say, oh bar, don't go there. i think both as a political figure and certainly as a friend to his generation and as a friend to people who came up to him, he was a man without peer. >> there's an assessment of him out there as a political figure, that he was more comfortable governing than campaigning and that that showed. do you think that's accurate? >> i think that's true. i remember he was elected to that first term and then toward the end of it the economy took a sharp downturn. and he didn't respond to it in the way that would have been useful to himty think in the campaign. there were a number of reasons for that, some of them i think having to do with some of the people in his generation. he liked campaigning. the advice he always got from