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Of things but they were all done almost in a flawless manner and, you know, when i was later a commander under the commander in chief that was bush 43i had already knew that he would be good commander in chief but he just didn't have the combat experience, you could tell that was there but bush 41 really just did it right. carley: with that in mind, do you think he's been given enough credit for all that he accomplished during his 4 years in office? >> oh, absolutely not but you know what, knowing him the way that we know him today i think he just looked at that and said, well, it is what it i...

House, and tim would know this, because he shepherded a lot of people in. all of these democratic members of congress that were frequent guests to the white house. >> frankly, to the annoyance of some of the white house staff. >> thank you one and all for being here. do want to take one second to acknowledge before he was president, george h.w. bush was a fly boy, flying missions in the pacific. in 2002, cnn returned with him to the spot where in 1944 he had a close brush with death. >> i have a clear picture of my parachute blowing up. >> 58 years after his bomber was shot down by the japanes...

Other republicans or talking about democrats. i mean, i think one of the things too that i remember being a young staffer in the white house, and tim would know that because he shepherded a lot of people in, a lot of democratic friends from the white house who were frequent guests. >> thank you one and all for being here. we want to take one second to acknowledge before he was president, george h.w. bush was a flyboy, a world war ii pilot flying missions in the pacific. in 2002, cnn returned with him to the spot where in 1944, he had a close brush with death. >> i have a clear picture of my pa...

>> reporter: hoping to return to the pacific to the sited site off a combat experience that forever changed his life. >> i'm not haunted by anything other than the fact that i feel a responsibility still for the lives of the two people that were killed. >> the tower that we went after was up on this hill. >> reporter: former president george h.w. bush finally got a chance to go back and answer his questions. >> i wond wither who got out of the plan, why the chute didn't open for the other guy. why am i blessed? why am i still alive? that has plagued me. >> reporter: bush's story of war begins ...

>> i wake up at night and think about it sometimes. could i have done something different? >> reporter: he had spent nearly a lifetime wondering. >> i have a clear picture of my parachute bleeg e blowing up. >> hoping to return to the pacific to the site of a combat experience he said forever changed his life. >> i'm not haunted by anything other than the fact i feel a responsibility still for the lives of the two people that were killed. >> the tower was up on this hill. >> reporter: 58 years after his bomber was shot down by the japanese, former president george h.w. bush finally got a chanc...