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PEOPLE, Page 59Nobody's PerfectBy Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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."