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Means my life. how lucky our children will be to have a mother like you. and as they will tell you, they surely were. as vice president, bush once visited a childrens leukemia ward. 35 years before, he and barbara had lost a daughter, robin, to the disease. a small boy wanted to greet the american vice president. learning that the child was sick with the cancer that had taken robin, bush began to cry. to his diary later that day, the vice president said this -- my eyes flooded with tears. and be...

Years as mr. reagans price president he was shown into a childrens leukemia ward, and 35 years before he and his wife, barbara, lost a child to the disease, and a 7-year-old boy wanted to greet the american vice president, and learned the child was sicking with cancer and mr. bush can to cry, and my eyes blooded with tears, he dictated to his audio diary, and behind me was a bank of television cameras and he told himself, i cant turn around and cant dissolve because of personal tragedy because o...

Reagan. and he is shown into a childrens leukemia ward. and of course, your sister, died of leukemia in 1953. and he is standing there, and the press is behind him. all of the cameras, all of the microphones are behind him. and he realizes where he is. and he starts it cry. and he wont turn around because if he turns around with tears in hi his eyes, the story becomes about him, not about them. now, i know a lot of politicians and there are not a lot of them who would not have turned around. and...

They tell me i have a good shot at it. it takes an awful long time. ill be here in the cleveland clinic leukemia ward at least for 28 days, and then after that for about a year and a half almost every day ill be coming up here. >> natoma canfield, i just want to wish you the best of luck with your treatment, and i want to thank you for showing us and the country the power of words, the power of words written on a piece of paper and sent to the president of the united states. >> well, thank you. ...

They tell me i have a good shot at it. it takes an awful long time. ill be here in the cleveland clinic leukemia ward at least for 28 days, and then after that for about a year and a half almost every day ill be coming up here. >> natoma, i just want to wish you the best of luck with your treatment, and i want to thank you for showing us and the country the power of words, the power of words written on a piece of paper and sent to the president of the united states. >> well, thank you. >> thank ...

Clinic leukemia ward at least for 28 days, and then after that for about a year and a half almost every day ill be coming up here. >> natoma, i just want to wish you the best of luck with your treatment, and i want to thank you for showing us and the country the power of words, the power of words written on a piece of paper and sent to the president of the united states. >> well, thank you. >> thank you very much. were going to be back with michael moore on natoma canfield and health care refo...