Something forced Reagan to name Bush. I remember the press was shocked when he was named as veep candidate.
“Something forced Reagan to name Bush.”
JFK Assassination. CIA. Bay of Pigs. Watergate tape gap. Tinfoil.
The story is available all over online. Reagan’s biographer. After having to fight the then GOPe (the Rockefeller wing)Reagan had patched up his 1976 differences with Gerald Ford, and asked Ford to be his Veep at the Detroit convention.
Ford sort of agreed, but floated a “co-presidency” idea to Reagan.. they would be co-presidents, amazingly. Reagan did not want that— serious doubts about it, which were then confirmed rather publicly by a CBS news interview in which Ford clearly spoke of a co-presidency. Reagan phoned Ford up right after— said he had 3 minutes to accept the VP slot... as a VP (none of that crap). Ford didn’t answer, and a Reagan operative (it may have been James Baker) contacted Bush, and off the cuff Reagan asked and got the OK. As such— the consequences of this— the Bush dismantling of all that Reagan had set up, led to the Clintons corrupt regime and the positioning of the Bush dynasty intermingled with Clintons. This is what’s been out there. If Reagan’s VP had been a true conservative, we would have had generations of victories on many many fronts. Instead we got absolute crap and corruption, and a democrat Nixon in obamaumao as a culmination. Disgusting.