Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181204:02:58:00
Strength -- restraint. he would lose his bid for re-election, but he would never surrender his decency and become something ugly, something he saw as beneath his office. and we see now acutely how much that matters, how tough it can be to not give in to bombast. president bush chose the harder way. he surrendered the me to the we as a leader and addressed opponents as opposites but equals. he didn't disparage those that he disagreed with because he saw that as making them look bad, but making him look worse. the president said it best. >> toughness with just attacking some individual. i don't ...