george h.w. bush s political career. he runs for president that year and does better than expected in the republican primaries running over ronald reagan and upsets him in the iowa caucuses that year but falls short and then at the republican national convention, forms this, what at the moment, history makes this look inevitable but at the moment an unlikely alliance, teaming up with ronald reagan. president bush used to describe it as out of a blue clear sky the call came. the call for bush to become vice president without which he would not have been president nor george w. bush told me he would be president. one of the most pivotal moments in modern american politics came on the wednesday night of the july convention in detroit when an attempt to put together what was called the dream ticket between then governor regan and former president ford fell apart
and really quite a moment, i think, he tells us about the change of our country. he tried to navigate. he was forced politically in his career to navigate the changes he was seeing in the republican party already in the 1980s and into the 1990s. he switched his position on abortion after the 1980 presidential campaign he made an alliance with evangelical christians in the 1988 campaign. we played that probably one of the most famous promises made by a candidate for president at the 1988 republican national convention where george h.w. bush said read my lips, no new taxes. that was a pitch to the regan ring of the party that didn t trust him and two years later as president he cut that budget deal that did raise taxes but those changes in the republican party peter that we talk about so much today that we see embodied in the presidency in so many ways was starting to see
that communicated lack of vision or passion or energy but always thought that was a turning point in 1992. and also, of course, ross perot, the third party race really hurt george bush s chances and it was something he found very hard to forgive. he was also, andrea, a bridge between two eras of the republican party, comes from his father, prescott bush who had been a united states senator from connecticut a moderate, maybe even liberal republican, certainly on cultural issues, that old tradition of liberal new england republican. he descends from that and runs as sort of a moderate alternative in many ways to ronald reagan for the presidency in 1980 but loses, becomes regan s vice president and sort of a bridge from that old moderate wing of the republican party to the new ascending regan wing that sort of takes over. absolutely. if you think about the bush
unscathed and nixon s successor made him the envoy to china. put it this way, i m darn happy about it. a year later, an even bigger assignment. director of the central intelligence agency. cia i love. one year only, but i just loved it. i loved defending the culture and time when everybody was down on it. when ford lost to jimmy carter, bush left the cia. what he ll do next, he didn t say. what he did next was run for president. i do pledge a new candor. bush lost the nomination to ronald reagan in 1980 and his political career seemed over until this stunning announce the. george bush is nominated for president. for eight years, bush was regan s loyal vice president, surviving questions about his role in the iran contra scandal. i m here today to announce my
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