weight of not being his father. he s at a very different time at yale. when the campus is in uproar as students turn against the war and the draft. anti-war demonstrators protest u.s. involvement in the vietnam war. in mass marches, rallies and demonstrations. bush doesn t believe in the cause of vietnam but he wants to serve in the military and he knows it s important too for his father and his father s political career and ultimately for his career that he serve in some capacity. so he joins the air national guard in texas and he s in something called the champagne unit because it s got so many kids of rich famous people in texas and they re flying obsolete planes basically defending texas from oklahoma. i mean, it s not the war. going into the national guard in texas is a way for george
he s at a very different time at yale. when the campus is in uproar as students turn against the war and the draft. anti-war demonstrators protest u.s. involvement in the vietnam war. in mass marches, rallies and demonstrations. bush doesn t believe in the cause of vietnam but he wants to serve in the military and he knows it s important too for his father and his father s political career and ultimately for his career that he serve in some capacity. so he joins the air national guard in texas and he s in something called the champagne unit because it s got so many kids of rich famous people in texas and they re flying obsolete planes defending texas from oklahoma. it s not the war. going into the national guard in texas is a way for george bush to fulfill his military service without a threat of going to vietnam.
weight of not being his father. he is at a very different time at yale. they turn against the war and the draft. demonstrators protest u.s. involvement in the vietnam war. in mass marches, rallies and demonstrations. it is ultimately for his career that he serve in some capacity. so he joins the international guard in texas. it is something called the champagne unit because he has so many kids of rich famous people in texas. they are flying planes defending texas from oklahoma. it s not the war.
not a single hunter was ever denied a hunting permit or told that they couldn t reregister or renew their permit. in fact, i encourage hunters to keep hunting traditions alive in our state. so that s what we did. there s no way to kind of pole vault over the fear and over the division and over the lives and the mistruths of the nra and the truth, i found, can actually defend herself. but we have to have the guts and the courage to state it, especially on this issue. when we did, we were able to bring forward a lot of people in my own party who initially started off as not wanting to pass this legislation. but we had to. and that s what we ve got to do as a nation. the vast majority of us as a people actually believe we need to take action and not just have bickering and debates. secretary clinton and bernie sanders, instead of replaying the old cultural wars of the past, shouting who s shouting, who s sexist, who s not. i think we need to focus on the elements that can actually save
become president and after 9/11, the start of the iraq war, democrats picked john kerry to run against george w. bush in 2004. when republicans and conservative groups in 2004 decided to attack john kerry that year on the basis of his war record, claiming that john kerry didn t deserve his medals, he had somehow faked his apparent heroism in vietnam, once that happened, it was bound to be next that george w. bush s contrasting experience from a that time period when he was serving under somewhat mistier yaw circumstances in what was called the champagne unit of the texas air national guard, after the whole swiftboating thing it was bound to happen this aspect of george w. bush s life would become focus and a lot of aggressive reporting in that election in 2004. now president bush s own record of service in the national guard is tonight once again under a microscope.