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He was just an amazing, amazing man. >> how did it come to pass that you were in texas and sang "silent night" that last day. >> how that happened is every so often i would ring the bush people and ask how he was. every year i would do a concert in kennebunkport. after we'd go up and have pizzas and stuff like that, they always came to the shows, the two of them. and a couple of years ago, he invited me to houston. he asked -- well, actually barbara -- he invited me, i had no idea why. barbara came down the stairs to the door and said do you know why he has you here? i said no, ma'am, i don't....

With the late president singing to him on his final day. can you describe that? >> well, the president and i had been friends for 19 years. it all came about through barbara, because she ran the literacy program and i had written a book and she asked me would i read an excerpt from it and be part of the program. so i did. when i got down there, president bush said, hey, ronan, don't think for one second you're getting away without singing. and so we became very close and we had a lot of concerts together and a lot of get-togethers at kennebunkport. he was a wonderful man and it was beautifully...

Right from the first moment when jon meacham took -- stood up and told that riveting story of how bush was shot down out of the skies and was waiting there, you know, miraculously rescued, but he lost his two men. he asked that question, why was i spared and spent the rest of his life seeking an answer to that through service. right from that first moment to the last moment when george w. bush choked up and said what my father wanted to do was to go back and hug robin again and hold barbara's hand again. even now just telling the story, it's moving. >> yeah. also the minister who was with the ...