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🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | As he prepared to run for president in 1987, George H.W. Bush seemed to have the perfect resume, |
0:07.5 | former congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, ambassador to China, CIA director, |
0:13.0 | vice president. But when Newsweek profiled him for a cover story that fall, it noted he was |
0:19.0 | plagued with what the magazine called a potentially crippling handicap, a perception that he isn't |
0:25.0 | strong enough or tough enough for the challenges of the Oval Office, that he is in a single mean |
0:30.7 | word a wimp. It was a brutal assessment made even crueler by the headline on the cover, George |
0:37.6 | Bush it read, fighting the wimp factor. It was a line that stuck in the public consciousness |
0:44.0 | and was seared into the memory of Bush himself and his family, most of whom came to resent |
0:49.6 | the magazine for years into the future. But now as the country remembers the 41st president |
0:55.6 | and celebrates his contributions to the country, the editor of that Newsweek story has stepped |
1:00.7 | forward to apologize for it. And in a piece in Yahoo News this week say something you rarely |
1:05.9 | hear in Washington, I was wrong. We'll talk to that former Newsweek editor and explore |
1:11.9 | how and why he came to that conclusion on today's buried treasure. |
1:16.1 | There is absolutely no collusion. I didn't make a phone call to Russia. I have nothing to do |
1:22.4 | with Russia. Everybody knows it. People have got to know whether or not their presidents are |
1:27.9 | cropped. Well, I'm not a crook. I told the American people I did not trade arms for |
1:35.2 | Russia. My heart and my death's intentions still tell me that's true. But the facts and the evidence |
1:41.2 | tell me it is not. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
1:48.2 | The British government has learned Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities |
1:52.2 | of uranium from Africa. How many times have to answer this question? |
1:57.2 | Russia is a ruse. I'm Michael Isagov, Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News. |
2:06.2 | And I'm Dan Clydeman, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News. |
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