Well, for starters: as a prelude to his career in politics, he’d failed his final exam in political science. And then there was the fishy way he got into law school. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Quayle, a fire-breathing congressional opponent of affirmative action, had taken advantage of a special admissions program designed to favor minority applicants. No one could figure out which minority group he belonged to, other than “blond newspaper heirs.” Concurrent with Quayle’s acceptance to the University of Indiana Law School, his press-baron grandpa made substantial donations to the
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