If anyone knows what it is like to be Sarah Palin right now, it is James Danforth Quayle. “It sure sounded familiar,” Dan Quayle chuckled, his voice coming over the telephone line from Phoenix, 20 ...
W hen chosen by George Bush to run as the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1988, J. Danforth Quayle-as he was known at the time-was considered almost universally to be a buffoon. Journalists, ...
In choosing Indiana Sen. J. Danforth Quayle as his running mate, George Bush on Tuesday made a safe choice. Unlike Michael Dukakis’ decision to fill a void in his party’s political spectrum, this one ...
For most of four years, the men around George Bush had looked on his alliance with J. Danforth Quayle in the manner of relatives regarding a bad marriage in the family, a mismatch that could not be ...
John Adams called it “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” J. Danforth Quayle, however, is showing just how significant the vice ...
It’s been a rough few weeks for Ben Quayle. The former vice-president’s son, one of 10 Republicans vying to succeed retiring Rep. John Shadegg, has been caught up in allegations that he helped launch ...