Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Bush akanga ari nhume yokuchinjana ku1940 Republican National Convention, uye nhume ku1944, 1948
uye 1952 Republican National Conventions. Muna 1952 kusarudzwa kwake pamusoro paHamilton Fish III kwakaratidzwa sevhoti yaDwight D. Eisenhower pamusoro paRobert A. Taft, kunyange zvazvo Bush akanga asina nzira ipi neipi inomanikidzirwa kuvhota Eisenhower.