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Campell also expressed disappointment over the selection of Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN) as Bush's running mate. "Picking Dan Quayle--that's like putting the country into the hands of a semi-trained chimpanzee," he said...
Bush's selection of Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Ind.) asa running mate seems to have played itself out,with 57 percent of the students indicating thecontroversial selection of the young conservativedid not affect their choice. Four percent saidQuayle's place on the Republican ticket made themmore likely to vote for Bush, while 39 percentsaid the vice president's choice tipped themtoward Dukakis...
Countered Dukakis, also beginning his day in Colorado: "He's slipping and sliding, we're rocking and rolling." he sought to raise fears over the possibility that Bush--if elected--might put vice presidential running mate Dan Quayle in charge of the White House crisis management team...
...plan was to create a news organization "by children, for children" offering features on doll hospitals and white-water rafting. Then, during the 1976 Democratic Convention, the fledgling Children's Express scooped the national press corps by breaking the news that Walter Mondale would be Jimmy Carter's running mate. "My ideas were totally changed after that," recalls Clampitt. "Suddenly, it was about children taking responsibility -- about real-world journalism...
...general willingness to undergo the rigors of campaigning. But many spouses and children of politicians are increasingly admitting that they feel trapped in the roles the public pushes them to fill. Children, of course, are among the most affected. After their father was selected as George Bush's running mate, the three children of Indiana Senator Dan Quayle saw him harshly criticized for, among other things, avoiding duty in Viet Nam. They were knocked down by TV cameramen and questioned about their father's rumored involvement with former Playboy model and lobbyist Paula Parkinson...