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- PEOPLE, Page 59Nobody's Perfect
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- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- The candidate "was like a kid. Ask him to turn off a light,
- and by the time he gets to the switch, he's forgotten what he
- went for." No, that description of Dan Quayle is not part of Jay
- Leno's opening monologue. It comes instead from one of the
- "handlers" in charge of the Vice President's campaign last year.
- A book by columnists Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover (Whose
- Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the
- Presidency 1988) quotes Republican professionals assigned to the
- then Senator, who found him "shell-shocked" by the
- "aggressiveness of the press" and constantly in need of
- correction. For a fellow who thought he was astute, says one
- adviser, Quayle "was absolutely out of it." All this talk behind
- his back is "cruel," says Quayle, who thinks such disloyalty
- "probably explains a lot of the problems we had on the
- campaign."
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