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John, i want to ask you -- i'm sorry. john, i want to ask you, president bush also was a big risk taker. there's video of this, jumping out of planes, speeding around on his boat in maine. you can see that in this photo. it was taken by david. >> yeah. >> did that make it tough to look after him? by the way, i love boating too, so i'm with him on that. >> we had an understanding with the boat. they allowed us to put a brace and a harness in there that i had on. so i knew i wasn't going anywhere. and then i was able to reach him and had materials that i would be able to keep him from going over...

South pacific. he was a risk-taker, we know he was jumping out of airplanes at 90 years old but that was all part and parcel of embracing life. he would have had something warm to say to those he left behind just as he did so frequently in his letters because those are also a treasure trove, a window into the soul of george h.w. bush. we hope that soul now is at peace and with his loved ones and the great beyond. >> shepard: before his death, he said, i don't know if my 3-year-old will be a 3-year-old in heaven or a middle age or in heaven. but i can't wait to see her. but what i hope it is, i...

Professional that held -- that stood him very well and the country as well. >> yeah, that's right. he came from new england, good, puritan stock. people said the same thing after barbara bush died. the two of them represented a stallwart, stern, modest character that one associated with new england, from the founding of the country onward to a lot of these families, bush was from a famous political family, went to yale, went to a prep school in new england. but finally he went off to find his own way after enlift inning the may you i have, world war ii -- navy, world war ii. he went to make hi...

Risk-taker and people remember him as somebody -- as we are showing him skydiving, which he loved to do, too -- he was somebody who was not afraid to strike out and business, and family, government. he was always, it seems, rising to a new challenge, chris. >> chris: i asked him about skydiving, and his decision to do that. even loud, he put not just as a lark or a personal adventure, but as a public service. he said, i am trying to send a message to old folks like him at that point, he was in his 80s. he said, you don't have to sit -- i remember he put it this way -- drool in the corner. you ...

He was a risk taker and people remember him as somebody who wasn't afraid to strike out in business and government. always seen rising to a new challenge. >> i asked him about skydiving and his decision to do that and not just as a lark or personal adventure but as a public service, trying to send a message to folks like him. he was in his 80s, you don't have to do this, you can get up and do something, skydiving with the golden knights, you can do something and don't put yourself in the grave before you are