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John speaks about the bitter 88 campaign and it was tough. No question about it. But he represented an era and a generation that believed in a higher form of politics, and in Public Service, and john his biographer is so correct in talking about that period of the no new taxes pledge which the convention, that was moment of his Convention Nomination in 1988 but he when push came to shove and when the time demanded it, knowing full well that it could cost him his reelection, agreed to what became the bipartisan negotiations at Andrews Air Force base i covered. I was covering congress at the time and he understood what sacrifice he was making and went along with a number of legislative initiatives that he knew were going to be costly to his base, and it was with Great Sadness and regret that he was defeated by a new generation, by the baby boomers bill clinton and al gore and it was really a passing of the torch. He was the last world war ii veteran, you know, that served in that war to

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