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EFFORTS TODAY AND YOU COULD SENSE WHAT SHE WAS TRYING TO DO. SHE KNEW THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS DAY, THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DID NOT SEE THIS FOUR YEARS AGO. AND WHAT WAS IMPORTANT, EVEN IF MUCH OF WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED HERE TOMORROW, SHE MIGHT STAND OUT UP AGAINST, SHE’S NOT GOING TO DO THAT TODAY. SHE SHE WENT UP TO THE LINE ON PARDONS AND TOLD US WHERE SHE THINKS SHE’LL LAND IF THIS GOES IN THAT DIRECTION. BUT HER EFFORTS TODAY TO TRY TO BRING BACK SOME OF THE NORMS AND BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER TODAY. YOU’RE SO RIGHT, DAVID. WE HAVEN’T SEEN THIS FOR EIGHT YEARS. AND IT’S NOT JUST IMPORTANT FOR OUR COUNTRY, IT’S IMPORTANT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE THAT WE HAVE UNITED FRONT WHEN WE INAUGURATE A NEW PRESIDENT, AND THAT WE HOPE THAT PRESIDENT DOES THE BEST FOR OUR COUNTRY. RIGHT? RIGHT. YOU TALKED ABOUT THOSE THOSE NOTES EARLIER THAT THAT PRESIDENTS LEAVE FOR OUTGOING PRESIDENTS, LEAVE FOR INCOMING PRESIDENTS. AND THE FIRST ONE WAS RONALD REAGAN TO HIS VICE PRESIDENT, GEORGE H.W. BUSH. IT WAS A PERFECT CIRCUMSTANCE. HE WAS LEAVING THE OFFICE OVER TO HIS HEIR APPARENT. BUT IT’S THAT SECOND NOTE FROM GEORGE H.W. BUSH TO BILL CLINTON THAT’S MORE REVEALING, BECAUSE CLINTON HAD DEFEATED BUSH, HE HAD WRESTED HIM FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. AND HIS LETTER READ IN PART, YOU WILL BE OUR PRESIDENT WHEN YOU READ THIS NOTE, I WILL BE ROOTING HARD FOR YOU. WE SHOULD ALL BE ROOTING HARD FOR OUR PRESIDENT WHEN HE COMES IN AND AND OUR NATION COMING TOGETHER. THANKS IN PART TO SENATOR KLOBUCHAR, IS IS A SYMBOL OF THAT. IT’S VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE NATION AND THE WORLD TO WITNESS THAT. NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. AND SPEAKING OF THOSE LETTERS, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF THEM FOR OUR VIEWERS AT HOME. IT’S SUCH A GREAT POINT. MARK. LET’S LOOK AT THIS FIRST, BECAUSE IT ALL BEGAN WITH RONALD REAGAN. AS YOU MENTIONED, THE LETTER FROM RONALD REAGAN TO HIS VICE PRESIDENT, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, AS HE BECAME PRESIDENT. AND REALLY, IT’S LESS WHAT RONALD REAGAN ACTUALLY WRITES AND THE STATIONERY THAT HE CHOSE TO WRITE IT ON. LOOK AT THIS. DON’T LET THE TURKEYS GET YOU DOWN, IS WHAT THE STATIONERY SAYS AT THE VERY TOP THERE. AND HE SAYS, DEAR GEORGE, YOU’LL HAVE MOMENTS WHEN YOU WANT TO USE THIS PARTICULAR STATIONERY. WELL, GO TO IT. I TREASURE THE MEMORIES WE SHARE. WISH YOU ALL THE VERY BEST. YOU’LL BE IN MY PRAYERS. GOD BLESS YOU AND BARBARA. I’LL MISS OUR THURSDAY LUNCHES. RON. AND SO BEGAN THE TRADITION OF LEAVING A NOTE IN THE DRAWER OF THE RESOLUTE DESK IN THE OVAL OFFICE. AS MARK MENTIONED A MOMENT AGO, EVEN MORE TELLING WAS THAT THE TRADITION CONTINUED WHEN GEORGE H.W. BUSH WAS DEFEATED BY BILL CLINTON, BY BILL CLINTON, AND, OF COURSE, ROSS PEROT ALSO IN THAT RACE. AND AS MARK SAID, YOU KNOW, THE NOTE WAS LONG THERE. AND AT THE END HE SAID, YOUR SUCCESS IS NOW OUR COUNTRY’S SUCCESS. I’M ROOTING HARD FOR YOU AND BILL CLINTON TALKED IN LATER YEARS ABOUT HOW MOVING THAT LETTER WAS. HE WROTE ABOUT IT IN HIS MEMOIRS, AND IN FACT, BILL CLINTON AND GEORGE H.W. BUSH BECAME QUITE CONNECTED OVER THE COURSE OF MANY YEARS. ALMOST BECAME A FATHER FIGURE TO BILL CLINTON. HE WOULD TRAVEL UP TO KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE, TO HANG OUT WITH THE BUSH FAMILY. AND IT WAS ALWAYS INTERESTING TO I THINK HE WOULD GIVE GEORGE H.W. BUSH SOCKS ALMOST EVERY YEAR. RIGHT? I MEAN, THERE WAS A SORT OF AN EXCHANGE IN THOSE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS. IN THE END, BARAC