Dan Quayle
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In Ross K. Baker’s otherwise perceptive analysis of George Bush’s intraparty dilemma (Commentary, Nov. 20), he makes the remarkable assertion that Bush’s choice of Dan Quayle as his running mate is “inexplicable except as political tribute” to the Republican right.
Many people believe Bush wanted Quayle mainly as insurance against impeachment. If Baker really thinks Bush was “out of the loop” on Iran-Contra, he should note what Ronald Reagan’s close adviser Martin Anderson wrote about Bush as a key member of Reagan’s foreign policy team: “He was everywhere, but he left very few tracks, sometimes not even fingerprints.”
MARSHALL PHILLIPS, Long Beach
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