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He had a sense, joe, that he was the temporary custodian of the oval office. he didn't own it. he was simply the 41st president of the united states, he knew there would be a 42nd, a 43rd and so on. so he was very aware, he had been given this trust. he was a borrower, if you will, of the office, but ultimately he knew there were limits and you had to pass it on to who came after him. >> and you brought up kuwait. it's o interesting. i remember being a young congressman and my chief of staff coming in and saying, do you have time to talk to the president? and since i was a back bencher, i said...

1989 was the crushing ever dissent in tiananmen square. what bush tried to do because he had been the former u.s. envoy to china, he knew how important that relationship was and he couldn't allow the relationship to end. on the other hand, he also knew it was important to send a message and sanctions were put into place and the administration tried to balance that. or when saddam invaded kuwait, one of the reasons bush felt urgency there is he was getting the reports of what was going on in kuwait and he essentially said we've got to act here or if we don't there's not going to be a kuwait lef...

Eisenhower. as you showed in the tape segment you had, it was far from guaranteed that the cold war would end as peacefully as did it. it was far from guaranteed that saddam hussein would be repulsed from kuwait. there are hundred other smaller areas ranging from trade policy to the korean peninsula to the greater middle east where the bush administration took steps hat successive administrations were able to build on. actually the most telling thing about bush as a leader was the degree to which people in his administration did extremely well that when they then served under his son developed...

Gulf war for ignoring the advice of the red hot conservatives and some of his generals and stopping short of baghdad. he was getting killed and i was the one person on a panel that was defending him saying, no, we showed extraordinary discipline. he said we were going to liberate kuwait and then we were going to come home, and even with an open road to baghdad, he knew that's what he had promised, that's how he had built this remarkable worldwide coalition and he showed the discipline that few other leaders would show. because of it he didn't get en snarled in the war that his son got ensnarle...