Word: dan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking in measured, mournful tones, the G.O.P. vice-presidential nominee drew his audience in slowly. "You are going to be the first to know these very personal, intimate things about Dan Quayle," he said, pausing for dramatic effect. "I did in fact eat graham crackers, drink milk and take naps in kindergarten." The candidate grinned broadly as 1,300 members of the National Guard Enlisted Association exploded with laughter and applause. Quayle joked his way through other "confessions" before getting to his punch line: "Nearly 20 years ago, I had no reason to be ashamed of my service...
...Force flight jacket and nibbling on cheese and crackers, George Bush was sitting with his wife Barbara and campaign chairman James Baker when he invited TIME Correspondent David Beckwith to the forward compartment of Air Force Two last Friday for his first interview as the Republican presidential candidate. Dan Quayle and his wife were one cabin back with Bush's senior staff. Excerpts...
...different from me. I'm 64 and he's 41," said George Bush of his rambunctious, arm-waving running mate. Bush's suggestion that 23 years was the most important distinction between Indiana's Senator Dan Quayle and himself set off a wave of son-of-Bush explanations for the Vice President's startling choice of a successor. But such a description shortchanges Bush and unduly enhances Quayle, whose life can be reduced, says John Palffy, his former Senate staff economist, to "family, golf and politics." The second-term Senator, of modest accomplishments, is a lot less qualified...
Only hours before George Bush plucked him from obscurity last Tuesday, Indiana Senator Dan Quayle sat down for breakfast with TIME. Excerpts...
...Desmond, Margot Hornblower, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert jemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Jeanne McDowell, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...