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Diplomacy, that is to say, president bushs diplomacy, was without parallel and bringing the end of the cold war. i saw him deal with people of all kinds, of all backgrounds, his great generosity, his great humanity. i watched him, and mrs. bush. i remember the very first christmas party i attended there at the vice presidential residence. the two of them had a great back and forth. a lot of humor, a lot of affection. as everyone has said, this is a wonderful family, and this was magnificent vice...

Elections for months and were hoping and kind of thinking that a pink wave would come. then when it did, we immediately started contacting the press offices and sag we need to photograph all of these women together showing their solidarity and we want to speak to all of them about the experience of being elected. we were able to get 27 of the 36 of them in separate groups during their orientation week. then we filmed them saying the preamble to the constitution. what we learned was that they are...

But he was humble with strength. >> when my dad was at the united nations, i lived in the waldorf with my parents, which is where the united states ambassadors residence was. and it was like eloise at the plaza, but it was dora at the wa walldorf. >> my admiration for him grew out of the fact that we came from such different backgrounds. hes the patrician, im the jewish boy from the bronx who became temporarily notorious for my exploits as a reporter in new york. back in the early 70s a smart as...

>> when my dad was at the united nations, i lived in the waldorf with my parents, which is where the united states ambassadors residence was. and it was like eloise at the plaza, but it was dora at the walldorf. >> my admiration for him grew out of the fact that we came from such different backgrounds. hes the patrician, im the jewish boy from the bronx who became temporarily notorious for my exploits as a reporter in new york. back in the early 70s a smartass reporter named dick schapp wrote a ...

And he related to people, because he had a deep and abiding sense of humility. he knew who he was, from start to finish in life, he had a great sense of himself, and so he carried himself with an ease that i think made him accessible to people regardless of their backgrounds. >> yes, i remember going up to maine to see him on one occasion, and youre absolutely positively correct. walker stapleton, thanks so much for join can usion and sharing your memories. >> thank you, wolf. appreciate it. tha...

Presidents time been going? >> good evening. there will be no official trump/putin meeting. there will not be a dissection of that where the presidents meeting with him is dissected for days and days. it is widely criticized. we do expect there to be more conversations on the sidelines if you will. they are at a dinner this evening. a likely venue for them to speak. the president was largely proceeding in the backgrounds at some point. he did not want this moment of course where putin this video...

Texas, in 1952 than almost anything ive done. david, how do you think bush saw his own time in office? >> well, look, first of all, we should say a few things. one thing, as noted several times, the last of the world war ii generation. his service spans 70 years and he, like a lot of those veterans who fought side by side from different backgrounds, different political philosophies, he emerged from that with a sense of mutual regard, even for political opponents. and that was helpful to him in t...

United states. >> you heard two people talking about that sort of, you know, casual growth style high five swing handle greeting as trump was receiving in the backgrounds. you know, two dictators that have back murders on foreign soil in the past 12 months. a strong explicitly siding with. we saw this greeting today. what do you make of that? >> well, you know, its exactly -- youre exactly right. you two dictators, you know, who see eye to eye and saying hey, bro, well done. if we had a normal p...

Of the fact that we came from such different backgrounds. hes the patrician, the w.a.s.p., im the little jewish boy from the bronx who became temporarily notorious for my exploits as a reporter in new york. back in the early 70s, a smartass reporter wrote a piece for "new york" magazine in which he listed the ten most overrated men in new york. on the list were the president and myself, and what the bushes decided was they would invite all these guys on the list to a party. >> so dad, in his typ...

Research into why a billionaire is saying such bad things about their company is not that unusual. and most coos would want to know backgrounds into what is going on. the issue here is sort of the shifting stories and shifting narratives were hearing from facebook about how much sandberg knew, how involved she was in the research into george soros, and what that says about facebooks leadership at this moment. lets go back. a few weeks ago, woo had "the new york times" investigation about sheryl ...