we just heard George P Bush at the end
of that last segment is he the next bush
to try to take on a potential national
office do you think I think it's a good
chance of that I mean he's certainly
young enough the Republican Party wants
to emphasize the Latino angle and he can
bring both of those things in the fact
that he's a Bush clearly gives him a leg
up and we saw in the last election that
all the Republicans took some pretty
serious knocks he was the biggest vote
getter aside from Greg Abbott so he's in
a position to make that happen the party
that was much more conservative than it
was when his grandfather was president
so he's gonna have to navigate some very
tense waters well it's kind of a tricky
water no matter how you think about this
he's been very public in his support of
President Trump which is unlike his
father and father and uncle perhaps so
it's kind of a different path
that's right new politics has a way of
changing over time and you know Prescott
Bush the senator had different views
than his son did so there's gonna be
some gravitation towards a new type of
politics and that's natural but this is
a new world for Republicans and
Democrats and I think that there is
still though an aching for that kind of
bipartisanship and we saw George P Bush
hint of that in a couple of occasions
and if he can claim that mantle then
that legacy could very well be his can I
just jump in and add one quick anecdote
about his father Brandon just when his
father was about to pass away in New
York he was you an ambassador at the
time Bush went over to see his dad at
the hospital and he just come from
having dinner with all the top Russians
at that time Russian delegates at the UN
so he said to his day said dad your son
me George Bush tonight I had dinner with
Andrei Gromyko and all the top Russian
delegates here at the UN his father sat
up in the bed and said oh really who
picked up the check I'd say that's a
good example of Bush family here well
you know that you've been around
President Bush long enough that you were
able to be in the room when he would
tell some of his jokes and so we're
talking about that there was one that he
told and you say with regularity that
somehow or another it lasted for more
than a year more than years decades make
virtually his entire career and Jim
Baker even uses it
I use it okay goes like this that
started a speech I'm gonna be brief
today it's like the little boy who went
to church with his grandmother and said
grandmother grandmother what are all the
flags there along the way in front of
the church the grandmother said well son
those are in memory of those who died in
service the little boy said oh really
the nine o'clock or the eleven o'clock
sir but that it has been the week what
we've been able to laugh we've been able
to cry and honor the man who was the
41st president of United States your
final thoughts on what this is meant it
was a brilliant life and one which we
would love presidents to lead after all
of the pomp and the national
circumstance in the celebration it
really was a home sweet home for the
president he was welcomed home for the
final time KPRC Sally ma'am do takes a
look at that final day dignitaries
family and friends gathered inside San
Martin's Episcopal Church for one final
farewell an emotional eulogy by one of
xli closest friends James Baker
we rejoice mr. president that you are
safely tucked in now and through the
ages with God's loving arms around you
because our glory George was to have had
you as our president and as such a
friend a motorcade escorted the
president to his final ride
his casket placed aboard the Union
Pacific 4141 train for a 70 mile journey
to call station or he would be buried at
the bush library a moment in history
that brought thousands along the track
of the trains route to pay their
respects
let's make this because it's I mean like
it's like once-in-a-lifetime experience
for a lot of people President Bush was a
veteran and I just had to show my
respect for him it means a lot to me
he's a fellow vet
or you know
we try to look out for each other and
take care of each other
once the train arrived in College
Station the casket was on the move once
again to the Bush Presidential Library
the Texas A&M Army Corps of Cadets lined
up to salute the president as the hearse
approached its final stop
the US Navy conducted a 21 strike
fighter flyover a salute to the world
war 2 Navy pilot followed by a 21-gun
cannon salute on the ground the
president was then buried in a private
ceremony next to his wife Barbara and
daughter Robin and the pictures from
that burial show continued respect for
the commander-in-chief with the family
getting the privacy they needed dr. o
being presented with the American flag
the end of a long week of celebration of
a life well-lived final words after the
birth
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