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Donaldson told Brian Stelter on Sunday in CNN's "Reliable Sources" that Bush, who died Friday at his home in Houston at the age of 94, sometimes challenged reporters but was always respectful.
"I have never heard of him a journalist chew him, never be angry at a reporter," he said. "He understood what we were."
Charles Bierbauer, CNN's senior Washington correspondent for the Bush years, told Stelter on Sunday that Bush was still "informed."
Journalists like it, "said Bierbauer
Donaldson expressed admiration for Marlin Fitzwater, who was press secretary to Presidents Bush and Ronald Reagan.
Fitzwater" slipped around "issues" but he Did not try to insult the reporters, "Donaldson said.
Former head of CNN's Washington office, Frank Sesno, told Stelter that Fitzwater was frank with reporters when Bush is poorly expressed and he would actively work to get the facts back.
Fitzwater "would walk around and say what the president meant was this or that," Sesno said. "There was no attack, nothing suggested that it was a false news."
"I really think that it was a mark of that respect, as I said, that was very, very perceptible at the time and that is – well, is practically ab now, "said Sesno. "Of course, it was a different environment … It was before the era of the Internet and before the cable exploded as before. "
Bush, however, had reservations about the press, as did other Sesno
that he remembered sitting with Bush at in La Crosse, in the United States. Wisconsin, shortly before losing his candidacy for the re-election of Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992. Senso had questioned him about his role in the Iran-Contra affair. , and Bush was "furious".
"At some point, are we going to talk about anything else?" Says Sesno. Bush "canceled the other interviews afterwards."
"It was not so smooth and beautiful," Sesno said.
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