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Kerri Miller and Jeyca Maldonado-Medina

Political Junkie: Understanding the Bush presidency

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The passing of President George H.W. Bush has a lot of people remembering the Bush presidency and the political empire he built.

From his 1980 campaign against -- and then with -- Ronald Reagan, to the Willie Horton ad against Michael Dukakis in 1988, to the "no new taxes pledge", to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Political Junkie Ken Rudin joined MPR News host Kerri Miller to talk about George H.W. Bush's political successes and failures.

To listen to the full discussion use the audio player above.