It appears nothing went the Reagan’s way during the 1980 election. The Bush campaign saw to it that Reagan’s choices for VP came down to his two biggest enemies, Ford and H.W. Bush. President Reagan did not believe in the kind of politics that these men used and found the means of their rises to power within the government questionable due to their financial affiliations. It was a mutual distaste for one another that lead to the bad blood between them.
Ford was rejected because the Reagans discovered that Ford planned to govern the country as a “co-president” … Neither was Bush wanted for the ticket because of his attacks on Reagan during the primaries, including the charge that Reagan’s economic policies were “voodoo economics.”… Although Schweiker was a moderate-to-liberal Republican, Reagan not only liked him but felt he would bring reasonable valance to the ticket.
Reagan despised people like Bush and other East Coast Republicans who were in the political orbit of Ford’s vice president and former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller. Although Rockefeller died in 1979, his influence in the GOP was still felt through Republicans like Bush, Ford, and Kissinger. Reagan felt the East Coast “establishment” Republicans took their orders from the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Until her dying day, Nancy Reagan believed the Bush’s were her enemies and during her funeral, every first lady still alive attended, except Barbara Bush. For more information and to read the whole article, check out the link below.
Source: Infowars
Quite the pair these two were!
I am with Nancy —they are a joke!
Interesting….
Can’t say I blame her.. He was also present as it turns out when Kennedy was killed too. Bush 1st, I mean.
i loved the regans they had class ron was a great president ,
Took over the Whitehouse my butt!