Description: Analysis of George Bush's nomination acceptance speech. He uses simple, all-American, old-fashioned phrases, in contrast to Dukakis' lyrical metaphors. Dan Quayle extols “freedom, family, future.”
Description: George Bush tours Boston Harbor, purporting to be guardian of the environment, and criticizes Dukakis' lack of early attention to the polluted conditions.
Description: George and Barbara Bush visit Raytheon plant in Andover to congratulate workers on the Patriot missile. Cheering crowd. “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Description: Bush campaign volunteers jubilant over their candidate's widespread success in Super Tuesday primaries. They look forward to eventual match-up with Dukakis.
Description: Bush quotes Yogi Berra (“I made the wrong mistakes”) at Nashua Rotary Club luncheon. The conservative business audience spares him questions on Iran contra role. POS on the salience of the issue.
Description: Retrospective of Bush's shifting rhetoric accompanying evolution of Persian Gulf crisis from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait through first month of war.