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2004 republican convention in new york. and he was so proud, as far away as he was sitting from where i was speaking, i saw him smiling when i was talking because he was so proud of me. he was just really great. you know, he came out to california during my governorship and visited me with his pals. i remember he came through with the trains, through sacramento. and they had lunch there. we always stayed in touch. even in the last few years, i went to visit him in texas all the time and had lunch with him and barbara. barbara, of course, i tell you, i mean, what an extraordinary woman she was. and what a great couple. how great they were together. they were funny to hang out with together. great sense of humor. and as you know, she always spoke her mind. she did. so i had really great times always with them. president trump and president h.w. bush certainly have very different or had very different approaches to public life. president bush didn t end up in ....
we were just there a couple weeks ago. route 50 westbound. and it was where is this? arlington, northern virginia. don t miss it. we re in the limousine. it s raining. going down this rain-soaked highway. and this is the transition. this man is about to become the 41st president. in three or four weeks. and he looks out the window and says, you know, i ve been getting some flack. he said, do you think i m looking too anxious? am i coming off as being pushy? and i said hell no. i said you ve got a matter of weeks to get the right people before you re president of the united states. at that point, i turn over and look at barbara. she cut her eyes at me and he was concerned about appearances. he had this great relationship after both he and bill clinton had left office, ....
And those are the last words that he ever spoke. we should all have such last words. yes, indeed, and we should all have such a gentle and peaceful passing. you spent a lot of time with president bush, over the past weeks and months going out to dinner and visiting him. from what he told you, it seems as though he was ready to go. well, by the time yes, but he really wasn t ready to go after barbara died. in fact, he said so. but by the time he got back here to houston from his summer in kennebunkport, i think he was pretty much ready to go. quality of life had deteriorated a lot for him. your relationship with the president goes back decades. you got to know him as tennis partners back in houston in the 50s. you were by his side from his senate campaign in texas through the white house and beyond. here you are, here you are ....
Helping others. george bush was perhaps the most kind and considerate person i have ever known in my life. if he invited you over for a drink or something, you would be sitting there, or anybody, a lot of people sitting there, well below his rank in life. and he would be passing the hors d oeuvres. he would get up, pass, fix the drinks. very thoughtful person. and he and barbara, frankly, were the last people other than her family to see my first wife alive when she died of cancer at the early age of 38. they came to the hospital a day or two before she died. you have had they wanted to support me. and it was george bush who said after her death, he said bake, you have to take your mind off your grief. how about helping me run for the senate here in texas? i was apolitical at the time. ....
He likes to talk. i like to listen. but he said, you know what. i think i m the father he never had. and that tells you everything about george h.w. bush. wow. how he embraced, you know, his probably most ardent political foe other than ross perot, and how he really just built this personal connection with him. politics aside. what a thing to say, a father he never had. wasn t a counterpoint to that, his wife s attitude about william jefferson clinton. barbara was not a fan. despised clinton. barbara wasn t having it. the only asterisk i would add is she valued very highly the role and the relationship that and the respect that president clinton showed her husband. so in that sense, she did years later. value bill clinton and the role he played. i do want to bring up the elephant in the room, which is ....