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Article: Bush bubble bursts after just 2 days
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 21, 1988
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George Bush arrived here determined to shed his image as someone
forever in someone else's shadow, someone deficient in dignity and
accident-prone. For two days he did that.
Most people find Ronald Reagan's presence a tonic. Bush found
Reagan's absence invigorating. He seemed to swell in the vacuum
created by Reagan's retreat to the ranch. Bush the tenor became Bush
the baritone as he gained gravity from the presence at his side of
the bubbly Dan Quayle. Then the bubble burst.
By the afternoon of Thursday, a dramatic day in American
political history, Bush was locked in a cruel, lose-lose dilemma.
Quayle was not being as forthcoming as he will have to be about his
past, and a ...