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Child by a couple will push them apart, but in this case, it brought them together. and george w. writes about that in his book, 41. it's very moving. >> you have to be moved by these stories. >> no question about it. the bushes were married in 1945 and bush saw a lot of death in world war ii. to start this post war, getting back to normal and having a little girl die at 3 from leukemia, it's been -- i think it made barbara bush realize that family is everything and it also made her very interested in helping people that were sick. i teach at the university in houston and barbara bush is every...

After trump, after brexit, the idea that this is ununexpected. the unexpected is expected these days. you're seeing these two countries, the u.s. and great britain, the pillars of the post-war that has stood for decades, both voters are reactionary, they're not happy but they don't seem to mow where they want to go. there's not an obvious mandate for any one party. i mean voters are just confused. if they have something, they don't like it and they want something else. it's destabilizing transatlantic politics and politics with the u.s. and europe. it's just a very unpredictable time. that's d...

You, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. and then you destroy yourself. >> that is president richard nixon as he left the white house for the final time as president. with us now, award-winning author and journalist. richard nixon the life is out today. any politician in the post-war that defined politics more than nixon from '45 to the turn of the century? >> i don't think so. >> got more votes than anybody inmer american history. >> that's right. and same as george washington in the unanimity and dominated an entire generation's politics whether you loved him or hated him....

The problem in first place. >> exactly. that was his vision of a post-war that would be different from the war -- the post war after world war i. it was a moral vision. in that respect even though he admired churchill very mump as a lee leader and spokesman for democracy and principles of freedom of speech, nevertheless, he and churchill were at opposite poles in terms of how they viewed the future. >> churchill lived to write his memoirs and he presented his version of everything. he pretended he was in favor of the normandy invasion but he wasn't. franklin roosevelt never got to write his.

The institutions upon which that world relies was so often conceived or inspired by our two nations, working together. the united nations in need of reform but vital still, have a foundation in the special relationship, from the original declaration of st. david's palace to the declaration to the united nations signed in washington. and drafted itself by winston churchill and president franklin d. roosevelt. the world in international monetary fund in the post-war, conceived by our two nations working together. and nato, the cornerstone of the west defense was established on the promise of tru...