Dan Quayle
US President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan (L) greet President-elect George Bush at the North Portico of the White House on January 20, 1989 morning, with, behind him, Vice President-elect Dan Quayle, before Bush's swearing in ceremony as 41th president of the United States of America.
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Great Moments in Self-Refutation
best to refute McCaughey’s attack on the Clinton health care plan. He effectively set back Fred Barnes’s attempts to claim that Dan Quayle was actually pretty smart by years, long enough to prevent it from becoming a serious argument. He attacked simple-minded from Lawyers, Guns and Money Read more »
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New Study: Americans Say Family is Evolving and Same-Sex Parents are Great
out the the critics of Murphy Brown — who had a child out of wedlock on TV and got lambasted by then Vice President Dan Quayle for doing so — were right about one thing: TV does have an impact on how Americans view the concept of family. According to a new from The Advocate Read more »
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Good Profile of Bill Kristol, The Most Wrong Person Who Ever Lived
for the Defense of Democracies, where he serves on the Leadership Council [2]. He was chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the presidency of George H. W. Bush and later served as chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005. In 1997, from Patheos Blogs Read more »
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ESPN's Digger Phelps has 'game plan' for bladder cancer
also candid about his involvement in one of the more memorable gaffes in modern American history. In 1992, Phelps was next to Dan Quayle as the then-U.S. vice president prodded a grade-schooler in New Jersey into spelling potato as "potatoe" -- with Phelps, from USA Today Read more »
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Mars Direct: Humans to Mars in 1999! (1990)
Second, in what was ostensibly an effort to get at faster, cheaper concepts for moon bases and Mars missions, Vice President Dan Quayle forced on NASA an “Outreach Program” that solicited ideas for carrying out SEI from anyone who cared to offer them. As chair from Wired Read more »
