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All I can do is
George HW Bush's presidential campaign was nothing to be proud of
The Bush campaign, directed by 37-year-old Lee Atwater, never showed Horton’s face in a campaign commercial, although it did use a jailhouse revolving door to symbolise the furlough program. But a closely aligned Republican group directly played on racial fears by highlighting a frightening image of the African-American murderer...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-hw-bush-apos-presidential-165616119.html
Walter Shapiro
The Guardian
‘Bush approached campaigning with a level of what-it-takes cynicism unmatched by any modern president between Nixon and Trump.’ Photograph: Carlos Schiebeck/AFP/Getty Images
All I can do is
George HW Bush's presidential campaign was nothing to be proud of
The Bush campaign, directed by 37-year-old Lee Atwater, never showed Horton’s face in a campaign commercial, although it did use a jailhouse revolving door to symbolise the furlough program. But a closely aligned Republican group directly played on racial fears by highlighting a frightening image of the African-American murderer...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-hw-bush-apos-presidential-165616119.html
Walter Shapiro
The Guardian
‘Bush approached campaigning with a level of what-it-takes cynicism unmatched by any modern president between Nixon and Trump.’ Photograph: Carlos Schiebeck/AFP/Getty Images