Old Gene was a firm opponent of racial integration. When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
in 1968, Gnot to give the King tragedy "much exposure" because he considered the civil rights leader a "rabbleene Pulliam sent a note to the editors of his papers in Indianapolis, Indiana ordering them (^)
rouser." He instructed that the news of King's death be summarized in as few words as possible and
relegated to the bottom of the front page.
The Bush-Quayle alliance thus reposed first of all on a shared premiss of racism.
Old man Pulliam also had a vendetta against the Kennedy family. During the 1968 primaries, he
sent a memo to his editors instructing them: "Give Sen. [Eugene] McCarthy full coverage, but this
does not apply to a man named Kennedy." Pulliam was supporting Tricky Dick. Bobby Kennedy
also held the Pulliam chain in contempt. Once when he came to Indianapolis he found tbeing refused a permit to hold a rally downtown. When when of his supporters urged him to gohat he was
ahead and have the rally without the permit, Kennedy retorted that he couldn't think of a worse fate
than having to spend the night in the Marion County Jail and having nothing to read but the
Indianapolis Star, the Pulliam paper.
Dan Quayle had been a mediocre student at DePauw University, where he managed to graduate
with a 2.4 grade point average. He was a party boy, and received numerous Ds in his political
science major. Quayle lived at the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (the same fraternity of which
Bush had been a member at Yale.) During the fall of 1968, the DKE house, according to one
account, "unleashed a party without a house mother for the first time and sponsored a frat partyknown as 'The Trip.'" According to some, this actually was a party at which the hallucingoen LSD (^)
was dispensed. According to one published account, a photograph of J. Danforth Quayle that
appears in the DePauw University yearbook has a caption which reads: "'The Trip' is a colorful
psychedelic journey into the wild sights and sounds produiced by LSD." [fn 40]
Quayle is known to the vast majority of the American public as a virtual cretin. Quayle is the first
representative of the post-war Baby Boom to advance to national elective office. Unfortunately, he
seems to exhibit some of the mental impairment that is known to overtake long-term, habitual
marijuana users.
Quayle was admitted by the University of Indiana Law School in violation of that school's usual
policy of rejecting all applicants with an academic average of less than 2.6. He wanted to be a
lawyer because he had heard that "lawyers make lots of money and do little," as he told his
fraternity brothers at De Pauw. As it turned out, the dean of admissions at the University of Indiana
Law School was one G. Kent Frandsen, who was a Republican city judge in Lebanon, Inditown where the Pulliam family controls the local newspaper. He had always been endorsed by theana, a (^)
Pulliam interests. Two years later, Frandsen would officiate at the marriage of J. Danforth Quayle
to Marilyn Tucker. Still later Frandsen would serve as Quayle's campaign manager in Boone
County during the 1986 senate race. It was thus no surprise that Frandsen was willing to admit Dan
Quayle to law school as part of a program for disadvantaged students, primarily those from theblack community.
After all this, it may appear as a mircale that Dan Quayle was ever able to obtain a law degree. J.
Danforth's receipt of that degree appears to have been mightily facilitated by the plutocratic Quayle
family, who made large donations to the law school each year during Dan's time as a law student.
What were Quayle's passtimes during his law school years? According to one account, they
included recreational drugs. During the summer of 1988, a Mr. Brett Kimberlin told Dennis
Bernstein and a radio audience of WBAI in New York that he had first met J. Danforth during this
period at a fraternity party at which marijuana was indeed being consumed. "He found out that I had