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...telegenic, churchgoing Protestants and dedicated family men. Both were elected to Congress in 1976 and later moved to the Senate, where they served together on the Armed Services Committee. They are married to independent, tough-minded women. They come from prominent, wealthy families. But the main thing that James Danforth Quayle, 45, and Albert Gore Jr., 44, have in common this year is that they are fighting each other for the least exciting job in national politics: the vice presidency of the United States...
...many members of the Republican Party seem to believe, that there are few disadvantages attached to being American. But there is at least one: What other democratic nation would make a bantam like J. Danforth Quayle its Vice President and send him forth to lecture on public morality and cultural health? Last month's sitcom episode in which the Vice President mistook Candice Bergen, a.k.a. Murphy Brown, for the Scarlet Woman of Babylon has already passed into history. A baby out of wedlock! The Veep blew his chance to link this fictional infant to the agenda of the antiabortion lobby...
Discussion of a late Cuomo entrance came to the forefront last month when Vice President J. Danforth Quayle told reporters he had "a hunch" that Cuomo would re-enter the race and become the Democratic nominee. Cuomo said at the time he had no plans to seek the nomination...
Then there's J. Danforth Quayle, the nation's first teenage heartthrob vice president. To counter his widely perceived boyishness early in 1989, Quayle dyed the hair just above his ears gray. This, of course, was to impart an image of distinguished, rather than school-boy, good looks. But when news of his hair-graying plot came out, Danny just looked ridiculous...
...President said for months that he wouldn't sign a bill requiring businesses to resort to quotas to avoid discrimination suits. The breakthrough was engineered by Senator John Danforth, the Missouri Republican who shepherded Thomas' nomination through the Senate. Danforth believed that Bush's opposition to a civil rights bill was uninformed, and complained late last week that a White House analysis of his compromise bill, leaked to NBC News, misrepresented the facts. Within hours, the year-old White House stalemate collapsed. Asked afterward if Bush "owed him one," Danforth replied, "I don't think he feels that...