The Washington Post, September 4th, 1988
A very plausible explanation for the intensity of media attacks on Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle last month has been offered up by Newsweek. The "boomers," the magazine speculates, were "settling old scores and revisiting the sins of a decade {the 1960s}." When Mr. Quayle suggested that his patriotism as a National Guardsman was being questioned, Ellen Hume of The Wall Street Journal slashed at him: "No sir. The implication is that people were dying . . . and you were writing press releases." That encounter implied and illustrated something else; the self-obsessed "baby boo...
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