project about what the enduring advantage of a decision will be or the disadvantage of it will be. and he got caught in the downdraft of his own presidency, especially when it came to the economy. also there was a generational thing. bill clinton was unparalleled as a campaigner and he was of his generation a kind of seminal figure when it came to understanding the new tools of campaigning. he d grown up wanting to be president of the united states, two terms as governor of arkansas. he represented his generation in so many ways. and george bush was a man of the greatest generation of a different time and a different set of values. tom brokaw from nbc news. the anchor of nbc news when george h.w. bush was president. thank you. my pleasure. he was a great man. i really got to know him as a friend. one final story about him.
had invatded kuwait. it was a controversial decision and he chose to go. he chose to go because he believed this will not stand, this aggression against kuwait. he decided from the 2nd of august 1990 through about the 5th of august that it was important in a post cold war era to attempt to establish a rule of law among nations. he saw kuwait as a victim. he saw saddam hussein as an aggressor. he and james baker successfully marshalled the world to project force around the world in order to try to attempt and, as president bush put it in a speech to congress on september 11th, 1990, that the law of nations should trump the law of the jungle. thank you for joining us. again, the word coming in now. it s about 90 minutes ago that
scenes at cultivating friendships, at cultivating relationships. there was an anecdote through about a dmas christmas card list that ballooned to 25 to 30,000 names on it with a staff to maintain it all year. but this was a cultivator of personal relationships who could have 30,000 friends and they could all feel close to him. there are tonight and will be in the coming days tens of thousands of people, maybe more, who will feel as though they have lost a very close friend. that s given to very few people in life, much less in politics. his relationships were not inherently transactional. and that s what most political friendships, quote, unquote, are.
to try to serve where that president asked. so i think you have to look at those two men in different frames because they ruled in different eras. but i do know that the immense pride, the immense emotional reaction that the president had watching his son govern in tumultuous times certainly fundamentally shaped his last decades. andrea mitchell is still with us as well. i was going through that list of names those reputations were transformed by the gulf war. another one was secretary of state james a. baker iii and obviously close friend of george h.w. bush. they went way back before that. and jim baker was called in when
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