Word: kimmitt
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...Quayle fail to level with your investigating lawyer, Robert Kimmitt, or was Kimmitt's investigation inadequate...
Monday afternoon, just hours after the convention opened, Kimmitt reported to Bush that the background check on Quayle was complete and that nothing very adverse had been found. What remains unclear is why Kimmitt failed to discover the pulling-strings-to-get-into-the-Guard problem. Was it Kimmitt's negligence, Quayle's deceit or just the explosive mixture of an inexperienced questioner and an overly vague Senator? Two Bush insiders complain in almost identical words, "We don't know for sure whether Quayle lied to Kimmitt. That's the bottom line...
...just before boarding the helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base, Bush told his top advisers that he had made up his mind, but he refused to tell them who it was. The Vice President had decided on Quayle without ever questioning him face to face; Bush had faith in Kimmitt and the process. On the two-hour flight to New Orleans, Bush discussed the timing of the announcement with aides. There were rumbles from New Orleans that both the delegates and the press were growing restive over the now tedious game of "I've got a secret." Bush was particularly...
Late Wednesday night, the Bush camp finally grasped that it was ensnared in a full-blown media crisis. At a midnight meeting, Baker decreed the strategy ( to follow during the next 20 anxious hours: total public silence. Until the staff unearthed the facts that had somehow eluded Kimmitt, they would stonewall everything. But the truth about Quayle's military record continued to be elusive. The Indiana Senator was telephoned at his hotel, but he failed to remember many details. Quayle's father was called; yes, he had tried to help his son get into the Guard. Phillippi was contacted...
...attempted from the beginning to obtain basic facts, exactly what had occurred 20 years ago, and to obtain records. So you were apparently unsatisfied with the material developed by Mr. Kimmitt...