Give 'em heck, George Herbert Walker Bush

Chicago Sun-Times | June 24, 1988| | Copyright

The symposium at the John F. Kennedy Library was organized by Life magazine to compare this campaign year and that of 1960 - the last time a battle to succeed a popular two-term Republican had been fought out between the sitting vice president and a Democrat from Massachusetts.

Yet the most startling idea of the day was offered by Republican national chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, who proposed that the real comparison might lie between this year and 1948, when President Harry Truman pulled off the political upset of the century by defeating New York Gov. Thomas Dewey.

At first blush, the ...

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