O'Donnell was a Texas delegate to the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago , which nominated the Nixon-Lodge ticket . He was an alternate delegate to the New Orleans convention in 1988 , which nominated George Herbert Walker Bush and Dan Quayle . In the fall of 1960 , O'Donnell was the Dallas County Republican chairman and compiled a record of considerable success . His responsibility was to recruit party workers to get out the vote for Nixon-Lodge and John Tower for the U.S. Senate , with whom O'Donnell was politically close
1960 Republican National Convention
1960 Republican National Convention
Peter O'Donnell (Texas)