Reagan offers Bush as ‘steady hand’ during GOP convention speech 20 years ago tonight (1992)


Video: 'Republican National Convention: President Reagan's Address at the 1992 RNC - 8/17/92'

(Monday, August 17, 1992) — Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, 81, trying to boost the troubled re-election presidential campaign of his former vice president, told the 1992 Republican National Convention at the Astrodome in Houston tonight that America needs George H.W. Bush, “a steady hand on the tiller through the chopper waters of the 90s.”