Episode 337 GEORGE H. W. BUSH 1992 The Changing of the Guard (Part 19) RNC Day 2 - 4 , President Gerald Ford and Vice President Dan Quayle

In this episode we take you through the events of three of the days of the Republican National Convention as George Bush prepares to take the stage and address the nation. 

He is greeted by hecklers at a Houston event who snuck in as reporters from an AIDS activist group. But the President and the crowd handle it fairly well. Despite all the issues that seemed to have beset the campaign and the convention, the message and the record George Bush had to run on was finally taking hold and the giant lead Bill Clinton had was starting to shrink. 

This is also the end of an era of long speeches by former Presidents at least on the Republican side of the aisle. In this episode, we hear the last prime time address given by former President Gerald Ford as he compares the scenario the party faces in 1992 to the last successful Democrat to argue it was time for change, Jimmy Carter, during the election he lost by a whisker in 1976. 

Plus, this election actually produced a very unlikely star, the much maligned Vice President of the United States, Dan Quayle. It is often forgotten that starting with this convention speech, Dan Quayle actually did an outstanding job campaigning for re-election through out all of the 1992 campaign. In fact, I have often wondered how it would have gone had he been head to head with Bill Clinton given how well he did do in 1992. That story has often been obscured by the election loss of the Bush/Quayle ticket later in the year. You will get to hear both the Quayle video and his convention speech in this episode. 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Remarks by Foreign Policy Advisor Condoleezza Rice
• 2:57 Music Intro
• 3:22 The Road to the White House 1992 - CNN Documentary segment
• 6:13 Host Randal Wallace welcomes you tot he show and introduces the speech by former President Gerald Ford
• 7:27 Address by Former President Gerald Ford to the 1992 Republican National Convention
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• 24:04 (Cont.) Address by Former President Gerald Ford to the 1992 Republican National Convention
• 27:56 Host Randal Wallace introduces the brief clip of Mrs Bush and the surprise appearance of President George H.W. Bush
• 28:23 Local Houston , Texas newscast KHOU
• 32:29 NBC News coverage of the Republican National Convention on Day 4 with an interview with George W. Bush, son of the President, and Bob Teeter an advisor
• 40:48 NBC News interview with Michigan Governor John Engler
• 43:03 Host Randal Wallace spends some time discussing the campaign of Vice President Dan Quayle
• 44:59 The Road to the White House 1992 - CNN Documentary segment
• 51:50 1992 campaign video introducing Vice President Dan Quayle
• 56:14 Address by Vice PResident Dan Quayle to the 1992 Republican National Convention
• 1:16:00 Closing music