From: coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Home Planned for Quayle Memorabilia
Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:04:55 GMT
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In article <1992Dec29.134957.2808@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, dylan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Dylan) writes:
|> Taken from the Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec 92
|> without permission.
|.
|> The mangled law degree?  The dog chewed it.
|> 
|> Home Planned for Quayle memorabilia
|> 
|> Associated Press
|>   Huntington, Inc. - some enterprising Hoosiers want to tap those
|> special tourists who want to visit Indiana to see memorabilia of
|> the soon-to-be-former vice president, Dan Quayle.
|>   Memorabilia such as his Little League uniform.  Or his Indiana
|> University Law degree, partially chewed by a family dog.
|>   It would be the nation's first vice presidential museum.
|>   The Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation wants to house the Quayle
|> Center and Museum in an old church here in his home town, and open 
|> it in May.
|>   "We're talking about Dan Quayle's life, his family, his political
|> career, the fact that this is history in the making for the state
|> of Indiana," said foundation spokesman David A. Schenkel.  "We're 
|> documenting as much as we can, for future generations to enjoy."
|>   The group has displayed memorabilia on the 44th vice president for
|> two years at the Huntington City-Township Library and Huntington 
|> College.
|>   More than 12,000 people have visited those displays, but with the
|> collection growing and the church up for sale, the foundation board
|> decided the time was right for a permanent home, Schenkel said.
|>   Barbara B. Hancher, president of the Huntington County Chamber of
|> Commerce, said a Quayle museum would be good for retailers.
|>   "The kind of people who would come to a Quayle museum are also the
|> kinds of people who might take the time to wander into an antique
|> shop or a gift shop or look at the community a little bit more than
|> some," Hancher said.

Gee, it seems this museum might be in severe danger of missing several
major aspects of Danoe's life. Maybe some kind soul(s) could offer to 
the new museum:

a) A leather-bound copy of the Quayle Quotes File (or, in a pinch,
   one on a toilet-paper roll...:^)

b) A mint collection of the Quayle Quarterly's full publication set.

c) A videotape loop of Lloyd Bentsen saying "You're no Jack Kennedy."

d) A second videotape loop of selected Quaylisms. Sort of his own
   eternal flame, not quite a la JFK...:^) Selected items might include:

I am not part of the problem; I am a Republican.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle 
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will
never, never surrender to what is right.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle speaking to the Christian 
                   Coalition about the need for abstinence to avoid AIDS,
                   11/15/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)       
I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle defending his opinions about
                   the TV show "Murphy Brown" [Las Vegas RJ 21 May 92]
I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle discussing how he 
                   copes with criticism from the media elite, 6/9/92
                   (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
This president is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle at a campaign stop at CA State
                   University, Fresno, 1/17/92
It shows "us vs. them," and I'm on the "us" side.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle explaining the strategy behind 
                   his twitting of "cultural elites."
                   (The Indianapolis Star, 6/14/92 - taken from the Quayle
                   Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1992)
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment.  It's the impurities in 
our air and water that are doing it.
                -- Vice President Dan Quayle

(With thanks to Mike Goldman)

- Don Coolidge 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle