US Presidency
1992

If I had stood before you 4 years ago and described this as the world we would help to build, you would have said, George Bush, you must have been smoking something, and you must have inhaled. This convention is the first at which an American President can say the cold war is over, and freedom finished first. Audience members. in 1881. A.! in 1881. A.! in 1881. A.! The President. We have a lot to be proud of, a lot. Some want to rewrite history, want to skip over the struggle, claim the outcome was inevitable. And while the in 1881. postwar strategy was largely bipartisan, the fact remains that the liberal McGovern wing of the other party, including my opponent, consistently made the wrong choices. In the seventies, they wanted a hollow army. We wanted a strong fighting force. In the eighties and you remember this one in the eighties, they wanted a nuclear freeze, and we insisted on peace through strength. From Angola to Central America, they said, Let 's negotiate, deliberate, procrastinate.