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Ann Richards: Poor George
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Philanthropy has long been important to George and Ann Richards. In 1994, they endowed the Bart Richards Award in Media Criticism in the Penn State College of Communications to honor Mr. Richards' father. The Richards' gift to the Civil War Era Center stems from a commitment to liberal arts education and from Mr. Richards' family history. Both of his great-grandfathers served in the Union Army during the Civil War, one in the California Volunteer Infantry and the other in the First Missouri Light Artillery.
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An ardent feminist who could make the most unrepentant male chauvinist laugh out loud, Richards seized the national stage with her keynote address to the 1988 Democratic convention. "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did," she drawled. "She just did it backwards in high heels." With perfect timing, she skewered the GOP nominee, then Vice President George H.W. Bush. "Poor George."
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The moment that Richards is most remembered for by the American public ... had ties to the Bush family. As the keynote speaker at the 1998 Democratic Convention, Ann said of George H.W. Bush "Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
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A liberal Democrat, as Governor Richards went some way towards fulfilling her electoral promises by appointing women and minorities to statewide offices and initiating an efficiency drive. But when she stood for re-election in 1994 her previous mockery of Bush came back to haunt her. His eldest son George W. Bush was selected as the Republican candidate and he succeeded in denying her a second term as Governor.
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Richards’ political profile kept rising. She was in the national spotlight for the keynote address at the 1988 National Democratic Convention. During her speech, she took a jab at George Bush, then vice president, saying “Poor George, he can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.” The remark was widely repeated in the press coverage of the event.
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Ms. Richards sealed her partisan reputation with a blast at George H.W. Bush, a fellow Texan who was vice president at the time: "Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
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