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This monster has gotten you into some trouble and you need to fight like hell." >> what did she say? >> she did not understand what was happening. she just seemed off. terribly, terribly sad. >> at home alone, valerie recorded an audio diary on her ipad. >> hey, its valerie. >> she recounted how, back when her marriage to mack was crumbling, she ran into her neighbors son, leon. >> i was completely turned off immediately by his attitude, because you could tell he knew how beautiful he was. >> bu...

He actually told haldeman that he thought he was going to die. he told haldeman he was going to quit as president. he said he had to quit because he said that he, richard nixon, the president, he said, im the guilty one in watergate. nixon confessed that out loud to his chief of staff bob haldeman more than a year before he actually resigned from office. and we know that as a matter of historical fact because it turns out, lordy, there are tapes. from watergate, there arent just the oval office ...

For 73 years. his son, who was not in combat, intuitively understood the role and by alling th accounts was af great decorum, the president is a place of moral leadership. its not of social media pinball machine, but its about leading the nation asking people to sacrifice, ultimate sacrifice, but honoring that sacrificsacrid it, to my mind, the bushes, president obama, were extremely grateful. if you ask people in the president, you know this, they all say the hardest thing you do is send someon...

Sacrifice, ultimate sacrifice, but honoring that ssacrifice, an it, to my mind, the bushes, president obama, were extremely grateful. if you ask people in the president, you know this, they all say the hardest thing you do is send someone into battle and deal with the consequences. bush 41 talked in an audio diary kept throughout the presidency. sunday night before air war began in iraq in january of 1991, and hes watching cnn up in the treaty room, and he sees a father hugging his son, and he i...

Years as mr. reagans price president he was shown into a childrens leukemia ward, and 35 years before he and his wife, barbara, lost a child to the disease, and a 7-year-old boy wanted to greet the american vice president, and learned the child was sicking with cancer and mr. bush can to cry, and my eyes blooded with tears, he dictated to his audio diary, and behind me was a bank of television cameras and he told himself, i cant turn around and cant dissolve because of personal tragedy because o...

Magnitude of world war -- could have the magnitude of a world war, so many countries involved. >> on this point, do you have evidence that the saddam hussein was planning to go into saudi arabia back then? >> i know that there were enormous fears at the highest levels of the government. the president of the united states government. what you heard there was august 5th, 1990. you remember well on august second, the president said im not contemplating intervention of any kind. what is so fascinati...

>> i know that there were enormous fears at the highest levels of the government. the president of the united states government. what you heard there was august 5th, 1990. you remember well on august second, the president said im not contemplating intervention of any kind. what is so fascinating about this diary, this audio diary, is you can hear him on the second, the third, the fourth and culminating. he was worried the saudis wouldnt hold up and make a deal. he said the prince has been double...

Bush recorded a note in his audio diary expressing his concern that the situation would spiral out of control. here is his private recording from that day in 1990 which he dictated as he travelled back to the when you say. >> this is a terribly serious problem. its perhaps the most serious problem that i have faced as president. because the down side is so enormous. if indeed the iraqis went in and got ahold of saudi arabia and our objective was to free saudi arabia wed be involved in something ...

That worried president bush 41 enormously. >> he later became -- the first president bush became skeptical of cheney and was uneasy about the gulf war that he waged. this was back with george bush sr. was president. bush recorded a note in his audio diary expressing his concern that the situation would spiral out of control. here is his private recording from that day in 1990 which he dictated as he travelled back to the when you say. >> this is a terribly serious problem. its perhaps the most s...

Can feel her. we hope shell stay in our house for a long, long time. love pop. when i asked the president to read that letter out loud in the interview he broke down long before he finished sobbing very hard. his chief of staff came in the room and said why did you want him to do that. i said well, if you want to know someones heart and before i could finish the sentence, the president said you have to know what breaks them. >> such deeply personal insights are what moved him to write destiny an...