Bush Administration - Bush Becomes President
The George Bush Administration
A cautious conservative, both by philosophy and by nature, Bush believed that the role of the president was to address issues and crises in a competent manner as they arose; to serve as a "guardian" over a country that he believed had nothing fundamentally wrong with it. Soon after his inauguration, however, the world that Bush had known changed profoundly, both at home and abroad.
Bush Becomes President
The Campaign of 1988
Although Bush, after eight years as vice president, was the obvious front-runner to succeed Ronald Reagan to the presidency, he was a less than inspired campaigner who had never developed a national constituency. His only electoral victory in his 25 years of public service, in fact, had come as a candidate in a safe...
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