I quote from Newsweek issue of May 1992, our President’s view of Bush, Sr:
“Ronald Reagan is not called the Great Communicator for nothing. In one brief sentence last week, the ex-president neatly summed up his view of George Bush: “He doesn’t seem to stand for anything,” Reagan reportedly told friends. The former president later denied ever making the remark, first published in The Washington Post, but in case anyone doubted his true feelings Reagan then refused to be seen with the president in public. He skipped a Bush fund-raiser in Los Angeles and barred the press from his house when Bush came calling.”
“Reagan then refused to be seen with the president in public.”
Actually, I got to shake Reagan’s hand, and Bush Sr.’s hand, and Governor Wilson’s hand (he forced me to). It was at a rally in Orange County (I think) in Sept. 1992. But it was noted that Reagan spent the entire speech blasting (then-candidate) Bill Clinton. What I remember the most was Reagan saying how Clinton avoided that area of the LA basin because of the Santa Ana winds, so he didn’t want to be anywhere near a ‘draft’. Something like that - great line. That may have been Reagan’s last public appearance...less than 2 years later it was announced that Reagan had Alzheimer’s.
But I agree with your premise, Bush literally ATTACKED Reagan when he called for a “Kinder, Gentler, America” (just as 8 years of Reagan was finishing up). It was absolutely SICKENING.