POLITICS 88 : CAMPAIGN ’88 : Nixon Warms to Bush
Former President Richard M. Nixon predicted Friday that California will put Vice President George Bush in the White House by providing him with a close victory over Dukakis in November.
Although he earlier had expressed reservations about Bush, the former President said he finds that the vice president has the requisite “toughness” not only for the rigors of the national campaign, but to lead the country as President.
“I would have confidence with Bush in the ring with (Soviet leader Mikhail S.) Gorbachev,” Nixon told the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Nixon also pronounced Dukakis to be “tough,” and said Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) should be given a “hard look” as potential vice presidential timber.
Nunn would be a valuable asset to Dukakis, he said, because “he might educate him a bit on foreign policy.”
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