At the Republican nominating convention in the summer of 1988, the senior Bush pledged to maintain Reagan's supply-side economic policies with perhaps the most consequential statement of his Presidency. Listen to his audience rapturously applaud his pledge of "no new taxes", a promise that would come back to haunt him. And in closing, hear Bush's apparently sincere hope that Americans would respond to his appeal to brighten the nation's future with "a thousand points of light" through individual acts of generosity and patriotism.
Source: CNN coverage of the 1988 Republican Nominating Convention.
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