David Frum

What would you like history to say about you?

George H.W.

Bush would have said, the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.

They have 50,000 unsecured nuclear weapons.

If you tell me that not one of those nuclear weapons would be unaccounted for, not one of them would detonate accidentally, and oh, by the way, that the entire Soviet nuclear scientist corps would also all be accounted for, I will think whatever happens to me politically, I would think I was a big success.

And the angel of God could say, done.

That's going to be your legacy.

And that is a...

That is George H.W.

Bush's supreme legacy.

This entire Soviet nuclear program, despite the fall of the Soviet Union, was controlled.

There was not one loose nuke of the 50,000.

Tremendous, tremendous success.

That's a legacy.

And those of us who care to remember it, thank him for it.

But you don't get reelected for it, and it's not something that offsets, in George H.W.

Bush's case, a recession, but it's not going to offset a billion dollars worth of corruption, fraud, and stealing.

Yeah.

Now, look, this second administration has been staffed by sniveling weaklings of all kinds, and a lot of people who you thought might have some are

strength of character like Scott Besant, a successful business guy.