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...Quayle--Between now and 1994 (when Quayle thinks he's running for president), he should be the golf pro on the tour cruising around the Great Lakes (except no one should warn him that the poop deck isn't big enough for a full 18 holes...
Beckel minced no words, comparing the incumbent to the rich men for whom he used to carry golf clubs...
...waking hours this period constitutes. To judge by leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Boris Yeltsin, fabled for their four-hour nights, one hour per day would be equivalent to 5 percent of possible productive time. This period is significantly less than that required to complete a game of golf. If our president sleeps more than four hours, the discrepancy becomes even more alarming...
Following their military service, Quayle and Gore followed similar career paths that led them back to school and then to Congress in 1976. In the House, Quayle was as well known for his golf as for his legislative abilities, although he did push through such measures as an amendment stipulating that American hostages in Iran would not be required to pay federal income taxes. In the Senate, his most notable achievement was a major job-training bill in 1982. He began to develop a significant conservative following by supporting such projects as the balanced-budget amendment and defense-spending increases...
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