Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...referring to Quayle's meager war record, cracked, "If he says Platoon, I'll knock him down." Afterward, she volunteered that her newfound admiration for Bentsen and her deep concerns that Quayle "just wasn't adequate" had moved her from the Bush column to undecided. "I just don't know," she said. "I'm going to have to look at this more closely." But 90 minutes in front of a TV screen helped Greg Kretz make up his mind: "After seeing Quayle, I could not vote for Bush...
...slash Social Security -- never acknowledging that he, like Bush and Quayle, had voted for a freeze in cost of living increases. And dusting off a line he had used at the convention, Bentsen articulated the Democratic case against the apparent success of the U.S. economy: "You know, if you let me write $200 billion worth of hot checks every year, I could give you the illusion of prosperity...
...that you can't build yourselves up by tearing America down?" But Quayle seemed hesitant, nervous, already beaten down. Moments later he asked Ailes, who was patrolling the stage like the lord of the manor, whether a certain gesture would be appropriate. "Hey, Roger . . . does . . . on, on this, you know, if I'm gonna, if I, if I decide on my gesture over there . . . is that all right . . . you don't mind?" Because they had been caught rehearsing it, Quayle's handlers decided to scrap the "tearing America down" line of attack. Instead, Quayle substituted his own line about America...
...During his first speech after the debate, Bush failed even to mention his running mate. But Ronald Reagan proclaimed during a White House photo opportunity that Bentsen's J.F.K. line was a "cheap shot." Responded Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich: "When the Republicans call something a cheap shot, you know you've scored a direct hit." Republicans tried to make a virtue out of necessity by having Quayle dub himself a "lightning rod" for Democratic attacks...
...Sleds tried to laugh it off. "You know how we feel?" asks Stephanie. "Like a couple of black-eyed Susans in a field of corn." Donald sits uneasily in the kitchen, rising every few minutes to survey the street. "You have to be alert," he says. Early on he repainted the living room, but he has decided not to finish the other rooms. Too many uncertainties. Boxes are stacked against the back windows so that they might stop a fire bomb. Beside the telephone is the number of the FBI. The Sleds have warned their relatives that...