In the summer of 1988 leaders of the Democratic party invited Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards to deliver a prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention.
Richards delivered. all right, in a big way, targeting Republican presidential nominee George H.W. Bush, who had just spent eight years as Ronald Reagan’s vice president. Richards delivered a takedown line that has lived forever: “He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
I met Ann Richards in the fall of 1989 when she had just launched her campaign for governor of Texas.
So here now from 1989 Ann Richards.
Ann Richards won the election for governor in 1990, but served just one term.
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She died in 2006 at age 73.
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