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Between 1988 and 2018. >> george h.w. bush never more than in the recollections that maureen has in that wonderful column was for a son of the elite a down to earth guy. he was funny, he was self-deprecating, he couldn't quite figure out why he liked this "new york times" columnist, but he did, and he kept writing to her. i think one of the things i liked most about him was that he was grateful in the old fashioned new england way. he didn't believe in showing off, the idea that you brag about your accomplishments would have been abhorrent to him, but he had an ability to make difficult things...

On the baseball team. and then he's telling these people in the jungle, you do it my way or it's not going to work out for you. he was an incredible man. but he didn't have all that bravado about him. >> not at all. first i'll tell you how risky this mission was. the helicopter pilot that brought him in that day two weeks later was shot and killed on a secret mission in sell salvador. that's how dangerous the skies were at that time. when i went to see him in 2010, he's a funny, self-deprecating man. but i didn't want to talk about himself. he said he was worried about the state of politics. h...

And then he's telling these people in the jungle, you do it my way or it's not going to work out for you. he was an incredible man. but he didn't have all that bravado about him. >> not at all. first i'll tell you how risky this mission was. the helicopter pilot that brought him in that day two weeks later was shot and killed on a secret mission in sell salvador. that's how dangerous the skies were at that time. when i went to see him in 2010, he's a funny, self-deprecating man. but i didn't want to talk about himself. he said he was worried about the state of politics. he said when i was in p...

The first time he came back to the white house after he lost in 1992 was in june of 1993 to help gerald ford and bill clinton and jimmy carter talk about nafta, which was then facing ratification largely negotiated under reagan and bush. bill clinton gets up and gives this remarkably synthetic and wonderful description of globalization and why free trade matters. and president bush got up and said we have just seen once again why he's living here and i'm not. not many politicians and almost no presidents are that self-deprecating. and one of the things we've lost tonight is a sense of humility...

The world. he believed that we were stronger the more widely we opened our arms. one of my favorite stories is the first time he came back to the white house after he lost in 1992 was in june of 1993 to help gerald ford and bill clinton and jimmy carter talk about nafta, which was then facing ratification largely negotiated under reagan and bush. bill clinton gets up and gives this remarkably synthetic and wonderful description of globalization and why free trade matters. and president bush got up and said we have just seen once again why he's living here and i'm not. not many politicians and ...