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Bush, at ebb tide, kept wading forward

By Quin Hillyer
Published December 1, 2018 8:49pm ET
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Bush, at ebb tide, kept wading forward
Republican Presidential Nominee George H. W. Bush, right, at the podium of the Republican National Convention with wife Barbara Bush, Thursday, Aug. 18, 1988, New Orleans, La. | (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Never has a reluctant second choice so momentously changed world history.

George H. W. Bush entered the Republican National Convention in 1980 looking like a beaten man. He had finished a fairly distant second to Ronald Reagan in the hunt for delegates for his party’s presidential nomination, and Reagan himself had been serially angered by and/or unimpressed by his patrician opponent.

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