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...Recalls Brew: "When I spent a day at their home in Houston, Barbara offered to do my laundry, while George-no one calls him Mr. Bush-lent me swim trunks and my choice of at least a dozen pairs of running shoes. All this on the day after the Nashua, N.H., debates, when his political fortunes were taking a nosedive." Barrett found Reagan a gracious host in his Pacific Pali sades, Calif, home, but characteristically controlled: "He says virtually the same thing in private as he does from the podium." Only through extended exposure to the candidate was Barrett able...
...private polls told him that he came across well, that the tide was already turning. He did even better in the furious flap over a Reagan-Bush debate the Saturday night before the primary. Reagan had challenged Bush to a one-on-one debate, sponsored by the Nashua, N.H., Telegraph, then agreed to pay the tab and artfully invited in four other candidates, Anderson, Baker, Crane and Dole. The Telegraph refused to change the rules for the debate, despite Reagan's angry protests, and a thoroughly flustered Bush supported the newspaper. The other candidates then charged out, accusing Bush...
...decisive events of the New Hampshire primary was the strange spectacle of an angry Ronald Rea gan confronting a flustered George Bush on the stage of the Nashua High School gym, while four other candidates jos tled behind them like hapless losers in a game of musical chairs. When the four stalked out, one of them, Representative John Anderson, summed up the group's protest: "The responsibility for this whole travesty rests with Mr. Bush." Countered Bush's New Hampshire campaign manager, Hugh Gregg, the next day: "We feel we were sandbagged...
Reaganites were admitting nothing, but there was evidence that the former Governor's strategists had engaged in some last-minute gamesmanship. It was Reagan who first challenged Bush to a two-man debate on Jan. 29, and the Nashua Telegraph (circ. 25,604) agreed to sponsor it. Two days before the debate, however, the Federal Election Commission ruled that the paper's sponsorship amounted to an il legal political contribution. Reagan offered to split the $3,500 tab with Bush. Bush refused, so Reagan paid...
...mike, Breen ordering the power cut off, and Reagan shouting back, "I am paying for this microphone!" Pandemonium. "You Hitler!" someone yelled. "Didn't you ever hear of freedom of the press?" Throughout the uproar, Bush looked confused. "I was invited here by the editors of the Nashua newspaper," he said. "I am their guest. I will play by the rules, and I'm glad to be here." This was generally taken as support for a two-man debate...