Tag: Mark Updegrove

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Many Texas Republicans credit George H.W. The 41st President died Nov. 30, 2018 at age 94. “He was just a great person because really, in many counties, they didn’t even have a Republican Party,” Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, said. Back then, Texas was a deeply Democratic state. “As he said, you could have chapter meetings for the Republican Party in a phone booth,” Mark Updegrove, president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation, said. He helped to make Republicanism a more acceptable party for Texans, so in so many ways, he was a pioneer.” When former President Bill Clinton defeated Bush in the 1992 election, Jeff Eller remembers the how welcoming Bush and his team were towards incoming former President Bill Clinton. “They were unbelievably gracious,” Eller, who served in the Clinton White House as deputy assistant to the president and director of media affairs, said. Updegrove, who is also the author of The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. There are a lot of rumors about how there’s great competition between the two of them and great tension, but in fact, that’s not the case at all.” Updegrove says Bush’s ways weren’t forced onto his son when he entered office.