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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan hailed "the true grit of George Bush and Dan Quayle" as he embarked on a week-long campaign swing aiming to help make sure the White House stays in Republican hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates Trade Barbs on Economics | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...Senate, they must take five of the six open seats, hold onto all their incumbents (including Weicker, Karnes and Hecht) and pick off Lautenberg and Metzenbaum. This will give the GOP a 50-50 tie in the upper house, which could be broken by the vote of Vice President Dan Quayle, assuming that a Republican is elected to fill Quayle's seat in Indiana...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: A Day at the Races | 10/27/1988 | See Source »

INDIANA The state's most popular Republican Senator is not Dan Quayle. it's the wise and wry Richard Lugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Safe Seats | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...fresh morning on a farm in Idalou, in the flatlands of West Texas, with an ashy-silver half-plate moon in the blue sky, the rally crowd was being warmed up by Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, a charismatic populist with a talent for comic fulmination. Dan Quayle, said Hightower, is so dumb he "thinks Cheerios are doughnut seeds." And: "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drilling rights on George Bush's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

WASHINGTON. Defeated in his re-election bid two years ago, Republican Slade Gorton believed his political career was over. Reincarnation took place when Republican Dan Evans decided to retire. Ousted because he paid little attention to constituents and traded his vote on a controversial judicial nomination, Gorton this year has been conducting "listening tours" of the state. His chances benefited from an expensive primary battle won by Democratic Representative Mike Lowry, who was promptly hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Senate Battlegrounds | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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