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Jim mattis had the latter in spades, an incredibly gifted guy. i would suggest jim mattis is the latter day version of george marshal. what you get in now secretary shanahan is somebody who has that management and leadership capability. we'll see what happens from here. the department of defense will be fine moving forward, it just is a very difficult step for him to take to try to follow and really try to replace jim mattis. >> susan, what's your take on the president's pick? is this someone who will be in lock-step with the president's world view? >> i guess the president hopes so. this is p...

That when in the flush of tactical gain during gore i can't in 1950, they went beyond their mandate and decided to liberate the peninsula by force. that brought china into the war, as you know. it cost another 20,000 american deaths. and we were very conscious, the president was very conscious, about sometimes what you don't do can be every bit as wise and as consequential as what it is you do do. >> one other thought, richard, which is that on the domestic front, the extraordinary thing he did, again there, it seems to me, he compromised in terms of what he wanted to do, recognizing the budge...

You were on the foreign policy side, but you were very close. did he ever express regret for having done that? >> no. he thought it was the right necessary thing to do. the economy benefitted tremendously, both the growth as well as the elimination of the deficit. i think you're right politically. it brought buchanan into the primary process, which hurt the president. any time a sitting president faces an internal challenge, he pays a price. it brought perot into the general election. i think that helped explain the outcome. the president was comfortable. i think where he could have done more,...

President, we wouldn't live in the white house. we were independent adults and so they stuck to that. i think when the historians do look back at my father's presidency they're going to see a remarkable pattern of success in everything he did. on the domestic side and on the foreign policy side, the tearing down of the berlin wall. you know, he dealt with the tiananmen crisis in china, and dealt with it with a diplomatic savvy, obviously, when saddam attacked kuwait, my father dealt with that in exactly the right way. gave saddam every chance in the world to right his wrong. and then when he s...

Said if ever you were elected president, we wouldn't live in the white house. we were independent adults and so they stuck to that. i think when the historians do look back at my father's presidency they're going to see a remarkable pattern of success in everything he did. on the domestic side and on the foreign policy side, the tearing down of the berlin wall. you know, he dealt with the tiananmen crisis in china, and dealt with it with a diplomatic savvy, obviously, when saddam attacked kuwait, my father dealt with that in exactly the right way. gave saddam every chance in the world to right...