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You said if you cant explain it simply you dont understand it well enough. your dad went into detail so he could arrange it in his mind and transfer it to so many millions of other people. >> i think so. he just got it and had such a deep reservoir of knowledge particularly of history but in all kinds of areas from physics. >> bill: lets be honest, he knew everything. >> pretty close. he would give most people a run for their money. drawing on that i think the perspective to what mattered. he wo...

George h.w. bush was a great president of the united states. >> it was moments like that today, a personal and emotional eulogy by a former president about his father, the former president. and it was the sense that a rare kind of peace prevailed for a time in washington today. all of those things led to this. from susan glasser, who covers washington for the "new yorker." and we quote. "what does it tell you that the feel-good events in washington these days are funerals?" the front row at that...

Good-byes in texas to president george herbert walker bush. it follows, of course, that touching and emotional tribute to the former president here in washington at the national cathedral. one of the eulogies delivered by byographer john meacham, a eulogy he actually read to president bush last year. listen. >> i called up last summer, i think, and said would you like to hear it? yes. and so he was at that point pretty much in his bedroom there in walkers point, and i went in, and we chatted a w...

President of the united states. >> it was moments like that today, a personal and emotional eulogy by a former president about his father, the former president. and it was the sense that a rare kind of peace prevailed for a time in washington today. all of those things led to this. from susan glasser, who covers washington for the "new yorker." and we quote. "what does it tell you that the feel-good events in washington these days are funerals?" the front row at that service was a lot of things....

On us to choose the right over the convenient, to hope rather than to fear, and to heed not our worst impulses, but our best instincts. >> later willie geist actually tweeted with the memorial service finished, jon meacham has given me permission to report that he had the chance to read that beautiful eulogy to president bush before his death. president bush said characteristically, thats a lot about me, jon. the final eulogy was delivered by the presidents son george w. bush. >> at age 90 georg...

Eulogy by a former president about his father, the former president. and it was the sense that a rare kind of peace prevailed for a time in washington today. all of those things led to this. from susan glasser, who covers washington for the "new yorker." and we quote. "what does it tell you that the feel-good events in washington these days are funerals?" the front row at that service was a lot of things. it was a monument to our continuity of government and our democracy. it was a rare gatherin...

One, its to remind us of that fact. >> elise, i said this yesterday, it felt like a torch was passed from the father to the son, and whether he wanted to or not, the 43rd president, with his, you know, sort of new public relationship there with michelle obama, with the embrace of bill clinton, even in the eulogy for his father, and all the men for whom 41 served as father figures, it seemed that 43 took on the mantle of the patriarch of this family that stands for more than just the 43rd preside...

State, chief of staff and a eulogy from his grandson. many people from the entertainment world are here, from the sports world. president h.w. bush was a huge fan of the houston texans, the houston astros, and the guest list here already seen coming into the church service is nolan ryan. im going to send it back to you, chris. >> if you would, please, turn in your bulletins to page 6. let us sing together with strength, oh, beautiful for spacious skies. ♪ oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for ...

George bush impersonation is mr. rogers trying to be john wayne. >> john, we learned from you after that you had actually been able -- you read your eulogy to the president while still alive. what was his reaction? >> it was fascinating. we were -- it was a great honest, of course. ive always had, as you probably have, the impression of sitting in churches, sitting in memorial services and thinking, geez, if only the person were talking about could hear this. and so i decided, well, why not just...

As a way for the american people to honor the office of the president and its legacy. wednesday marked a national day of mourning as the country paused to remember and celebrate the life of george bush. the 41st presidents casket left the capitol to a 41-gun salute. as the casket is carried from the capitol rotunda, theres a tear for what once was, what is now missing and all the lost meaning of a politics that, while never perfect and had deep flaws, was filled with devotion to and love of th...