Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110207:22:49:00
Man who from the most ordinary beginnings grew and grew and grew to become one of the most powerful men of the century. >> my father saw himself as a rich child of america, he clearly had a love affair with america, that shining city on a hill business that he talked about. he really meant it and he really felt that. he saw himself as a quintessential american kind of guy. here's a kid who grew up not fabulously wealthy circumstances by any stretch of the imaginati imagination, his father was a shoe salesman any time he wasn't drinking. >> the successful child of an alcoholic is able to repres...