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ON THIS DAY
In 1979, George Herbert Walker Bush -- former two-term congressmen, former ambassador to the United Nations, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, former special representative to Peking and former director of the CIA -- joined the race for president. Six months later, former California Gov. Ronald Reagan would throw his hat in the ring.
In 1988, the ability of the U.S. economy to continue churning out new jobs -- even in an unprecedented sixth year of peacetime expansion -- continued to impress even critics of conservative economic policies ...