YOU BREAK EVERYBODY'S BACK: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 3 - Attack Videotape

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

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🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of a front-runner's withdrawal, the campaigns struggle to get traction and block rival campaigns. The best weapon. An attack videotape. A story of three attack videotapes. One sent to a reporter which took out a major player in the campaign. Another in the snows of New Hampshire that saved a candidate, and a third that kept a campaign alive. Also a video that was never sent that should have been sent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:05.0	All you need is a few minutes to start your day off with something historic
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0:13.0	Every day there's a new episode for you to listen and learn about what happened that day way back when.
0:18.0	So listen and subscribe to this day in history wherever you get your podcasts. That's this day in history wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.7	That's this day in history wherever you get your podcasts. I'm asking for fair play and I thought I was here to talk about my views on education
0:37.8	or on getting his deficit.
0:39.1	Bush didn't think he'd have a problem with Dan rather, knew him from Texas. He was a friend. But the campaign had been tipped off that
0:46.4	CBS may be out for blood and linking Bush to the Iran-Contra scandal. George Bush didn't see it. His aides he thought were too uptight.
0:57.0	This panicky campaign. Dan was a friend. He been over the house.
1:04.0	Met Barbara. Played tennis.
1:05.0	Play tennis with him.
1:07.0	Roger Ails are the head of all things media in Bush 1988.
1:10.0	This is about 10 years before he's going to be news director of the network started by
1:15.0	Rupert Murdoch.
1:16.2	He makes sure to me Bush is playing right before the interview.
1:19.4	Okay, okay, talk to your friend, do this interview, George, but if he goes after you, here's what you say. If I was looking for an easy life, I wouldn't be running for president of the United States.
1:40.0	We cannot afford a trillion dollar misadventure into space.
1:42.8	Maybe you better look at your own record first.
1:45.0	My message of making a difference.
1:47.0	My message of strong leadership.
1:49.0	What the hell, I mean Star Wars will only cost 90 or 100 billion dollars.
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