WE EXPECT HIM BACK HERE FOR 9-11
COMMEMORATIONS SUNDAY, NEIL.
>> THANKS, PETER DOOCY.
HE CAN ALWAYS GET THE BIG
PICTURE.
DAVID, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A
SIGNAL ABOUT HOW BIG A DEAL THE
QUEEN’S PASSING WAS AND IS TO
THE WORLD.
I’M JUST WONDERING, ARE THEY IN
TERMS OF THE MAG ANY --
MAGNITUDE OF THIS EVENT.
YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO GO BACK TO
JOHN KENNEDY’S FUNERAL.
EVERY HEAD OF STATE MADE IT
THERE.
THAT WAS SUDDEN AND UNPREPARED
FOR.
THIS MIGHT BE A DIFFERENT CASE.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> THESE THINGS ARE HIT AND
MISS.
REALLY HIT AND MISS WITH REGARD
TO OUR FUNERAL ATTENDANCE WITH
REGARD TO THE UNITED KINGDOM.
NO ONE -- OBAMA DISSED OUR
ATTENDANCE AT MARGARET
THATCHER’S FUNERAL.
YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE IT, BUT
WINSTON CHURCHILL, LYNDON
JOHNSON DID NOT ATTEND.
HE HAD A COLD OF ALL THINGS.
HE DIDN’T SEEM HUBERT HUMPHRIES.
HE SENT EARL WARREN AND
APOLOGIZED.
MAYBE THE CLOSEST ANALOGY WOULD
BE IN 1910 WHEN EDWARD VII DIED
AND NINE CROWNEDED HEAD OF
EUROPE ATTENDED AND SO DID
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WHO WAS AN
EX-PRESIDENT AND JUST HAPPENED
TO BE GALAVANTING AROUND THE
WORLD ON AN AFRICAN SAFARI AND
SWUNG BY EUROPE ON HIS WAY HOME.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT SAID CAN YOU
STAND IN FOR ME.
>> Neil: SO WHEN PRESIDENTS
DECIDE ON THIS, THEY TAKE THEIR
CUE FROM OTHER LEADERS.
IF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES IS SAYING I’M GOING, WHAT
HAPPENS AFTER THAT?
>> I THINK YOU’RE GOING TO SEE A
MINI SUMMIT.
IT’S A LOGICAL THING WHICH WILL
HAPPEN IN THAT CASE.
THEN EVERYONE CAN GET TO MEET --
THERE’S A BONUS POINTS BEING
AWARDED HERE.
NOT ONLY DO YOU GET TO MEET THE
NEW KING, YOU GET TO MEET THE
NEW PRIME MINISTER.
SO THIS IS REALLY A DOUBLE
WHAMMY THING GOING ON.
>> Neil: WE’VE BEEN TALKING
ABOUT THE UNIQUE SITUATION WITH
QUEEN ELIZABETH II FOR BETTER
THAN 70 YEARS IN POWER, MORE
THAN ANY OTHER ELECTED OR UNELECTED LEADER.
>> HE RAISED THE BANNER OF DUTY,
HONOR AND COUNTRY.
AND THAT WAS WHAT SHE DID AND
DID IT SO WELL.
AS WELL AS ONE OF THE
COMMENTATORS SAID, SHE WAS THE
LAST ADULT IN AN AGE WHERE
PEOPLE KEPT SHOOTING THEIR MOUTH
OFF ON TWITTER FROM ONE SIDE 0
THE OTHER OR BOTH SIDES, SHE
KNEW ENOUGH TO NOT DO THAT.
TO KNOW WHAT HER ROLE WAS AND TO
KNOW WHAT HER DUTY WAS.
SHE DID IT SO WELL.
>> Neil: I WONDER IF DOUGLAS
McARTHUR HAD ACCESS TO TWITTER