the side off side when tom brokaw was there interviewing george bush when he won the new hampshire primary and that helped him nail the nomination and defeat bob dole. dole was on remote and tom said to dole, do you have anything you want to say to george bush? and dole said, stop lying about my record. i mean, it was one of those moments. it was a bitter republican primary. then there was a bitter campaign with ross perot making the arguments, actually, about deficit spending, but going much broader than that. at one point in june of 1988, ross perot was leading both bill clinton in that general election in that three-way race. the independent was ahead in the polls. to both bill clinton and george bush, the major party nominees. that said, the economy was a huge issue. i know he and barbara bush felt