mulvaney will face a succession of challenges with the house now run by democrats and with the continuing mueller investigation? well, it s going to be very, very tough to work at the white house given the reality that the house is going to be overwhelmingly controlled by the democrats and they will be investigating kind of everything. but that s why it s important to have a chief of staff who will bring discipline, exercise i m going to say restraint and focus on doing the job at the same time that a campaign is building up to function. a chief of staff shouldn t be running the campaign, he should be knowledgeable of what s happening in the campaign and keep that line hard. james a. baker iii probably the greatest chief of staff during my lifetime serving ronald reagan and george h.w. bush understood that. mick mulvaney has a lot of people that he can look at to offer counsel and advice. i feel privileged that i ve met with him in the past and have great respect for him so i hope th
the economy stupid, that changed the sway of the 92 campaign. and late in that campaign, it was here in the carolinas, he did a two-state whistle stop tour. and i was with him on the train that day. we went out on the back platform in the back of the train where he could wave to people and did an interview there. and one of the things that sticks with me, and it goes back to something that sam and frank had both touched on, is this question of trust. late in the campaign, he s trailing, and i said, has anyone asked told you has anyone told you, you cannot win this campaign? and president bush s response was, no one i trust. and it struck me as in some ways prophetic and approximate in some ways a very sad moment that he either was not getting good information from people he trusted or he did not have the right people around him. yes, he had james baker as his campaign manager. but it was a reluctant james baker who liked being secretary
fact, you re coming out of eight years of ronald reagan. a huge personality. looking back on it, after that, eight years of bill clinton, another huge personality. but there was a lot that was happening. huge amount that was happening. not the least of which is charles mentioned, the fall of the wall and the soviet union. george bush believed in the institutions of government, which i think, too, is another reason why this moment to remember and to compare and contrast is so important, because othur institutions are under siege by the government itself. and let me show a picture go ahead, sam. i wanted to make the point, if i could. he also understood leadership in that he found good people and put them in charge of places and let them do the job. he had a secretary of state, he was wonderful. james a. baker iii. brent scocroft, national security adviser and colin powell chairman of the joint chiefs. that team prosecuted that first world war perfectly, gulf war.
cultivating friendships. a christmas card that has ballooned to 30,000 names on it with a staff to maintain it all year, but this was a cultivator of personal relationships who had who could have 30,000 friends and they could all feel close to him. there will be 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. and that s given to very few people in life, much less in politics. his relationships were not inherently transsachsactional. he was a master of the science of human relationships. he never met a stranger. i was with him once in houston
tenure, especially notable down here in texas. and we can report, as well, that president trump and his wife have been invited to that funeral. garrett, thank you very much. i want to turn now to andrea mitchell. and r andrea, let me ask you about the piece over which george h.w. bush presided. tell us about how the circumstances differed then from now? the peace and don t forget the first gulf war and the way with that he executed it. i think he was preeminent in two regards. in foreign policy and creating great coalitions, coalitions that helped us fight that war. and as james baker would later privately say, they negotiated so many contributors from japan to the saudis. against saddam hussein that they may have turned a profit on it