Republican Convention: The Republican National Convention is held in Houston, Texas. Emphasis on the indefinable buzzword "family values'' and speeches by far-right-wingers alienate many moderate Republicans, and Bush's expected post-convention "bounce'' is almost undetectable. He continues to trail Clinton in the polls.
21 August 1992
Northeastern bus trip: The third Clinton-Gore bus tour begins, this one a short jaunt from Detroit, Michigan, to Buffalo, New York, with stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
