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Relationship, and she has fostered it, as you pointed out, she met every president since harry truman, with one exception of lyndon johnson. she wrote wrote in a convertible with truman. she hosted ike in balmoral and sent him her recipe for scones. she asked general ford. she rode horses with ronald reagan. she went to a baseball game with george h. w. bush. she has fostered the kind of stable relations that putin has had with the united states throughout her reign, and there is nothing thats b...

Starting, of course, when she was queen, she was a mechanic in the war, she spanned in the united states 14 administrations. the first time she was here, she was princess, sleeping in blair house because the white house was undergoing renovations under truman. you can see the outpouring of u.s. presidents talking about her, about how she was this, you know, forever diplomat representing the united kingdom in such a dignified way. whether or not britains really agree with whether or not, how ther...

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Stakes that are on the table right now in our world order. >> of course, queen elizabeth was part of the fight, she was a mechanic. during world war ii she was part of the fight against fascism, which is an extraordinary and staggering to think about the span of her lifetime and what she saw and who she was there with. you think about truman, you think about stolen as leaders. of course, at the time when she first became queen. i think that the challenge today of the end of a 30-year peace divid...

Just 25 years old when she assumed the thrown. >> throne. >> yeah, from truman to biden with every single u.s. president with the exception is of johnson. just an extraordinary life of service. i want to bring in tim and katty kay. for the people that dont live in the uk, never had a monarch to deal with, what does this moment feel like? not only the loss of the queen, but the transition. >> jose, im probably one of the very few people that you will have on air who actually remembers a little bi...

Jenkins told of foreign secretary rab butler coming to washington and lbj holding dollars over his head thinking he was humiliated him and roy jenkins said he spent the rest of his life retelling the story chortling, laughing and mocking lbj. not a lot of love lost between britain and lbj. but for the other presidents, an extraordinary legacy starting with truman. and we lost his audio. all right. here is a good lead up. david, a special relationship, talk about the queen. >> she did the impossi...

Trip when the former president was there and you could sense the warmth and tonight former president trump said she was a grand and beautiful lady, there was none like her and we showed you there are moments ago president biden also meeting the queen back in june of 2021, that we understand was the last time those two spoke. the queen passing away before taking president biden up on his invitation to visit the white house but her long tenure will be remembered by several former presidents. >> tr...

Video and images in our archives for, you know, generations of meetings she has had. but this last picture that we received when she is receiving the prime minister in scotland, its really amazing to think her first prime minister was churchill in 1952. i mean, youre talking about the fact shes met with almost all of the presidents since truman. and yet just beloved by all. >> yeah. it always makes me smile when you think of an american president going over to the uk. and then they meet the quee...

15 presidents, and that doesnt quite say it. doesnt it? let me just listen for you, jose, so that -- because it really comes home. truman, eisenhower, kennedy, nixon, ford, carter. reagan. george h.w. bush. clinton, george w. bush, obama, trump and of course president biden. it takes a while just to list of number of presidents the queen has spent time with. >> youre right. youre so right. i mean, she met with the bidens last in windsor june of 2021, and, daisy, know, its extraordinary to think ...

Through since 1952, but reflecting britain to the world. its hard to imagine what britain will seem like in the world once the queen is no longer with us. you know, when that happens. shes visited something like 150 countries during the course of her reign. shes met countless heads of state. shes met 13 of the last 14 presidents. everybody since truman, except for lbj, she has had a personal meeting with. and i think thats -- thats part of why -- what keir was saying about how popular she is in ...