It sticks out looking back now like a turd in a punch bowl. Everyone after him was handpicked by the CIA. Then came Donald J Trump.....Thank God we have had four years and hopefully someway get 4 more.
And yes I mean the current cycle of CIA controllers, LBJ is an obvious past cycle.
GHWB was supposed to be the nominee in 1980 till the grassroots made the party send Reagan. Reagan chose GHWB as an olive branch to the Washingtonian insiders. Everything after 1980 was designed to grow Washington at the expense of everyone else.