marijuana avilable at the time," said Kimberlin. "It was good quality, and he asked if I had any for
sale....I thought it was kind of strange. He looked kind of straight. I thought he might be a narc[DEA agent] at first. But we talked and I felt a little more comfortable, and finally I gave him my (^)
phone number and said, 'Hey, well, give me a call.' He called me a couple weeks later, and said,
'Hey, this is DQ. Can we get together?' and I said 'Yes, meet me at the Burger Chef restaurant.' We
struck up a relationship that lasted for 18 months. I sold him small quantities of marijuana for his
personal use about once a month during that period. He was a good customer. He was a friend ofmine. We had a pretty good relationship. He always paid cash. [...] When him and Marilyn got
married in 1972, I gave him a wedding present of some Afghanistan hashish and some Acapulco
gold." [fn 41]
Kimberlin repeated these charges in a pre-election interview on NBC News on November 4, 1988.Kimberlin was a federal prisoner serving time in Tennessee after conviction on charges of drug
smuggling and explosives. Later that same day Kimberlin was scheduled to address a news
conference by telephone conference call. But before Kimberlin could speak to the press, he was
placed in solitary confinement, and was moved in and out of solitary confinement until well after
the November 8 presidential election. A second attempted press conference by telephone hookup onthe eve of the election did not take place because Kimberlin was still being held incommunicado.
On August 6, 1991, US District Judge Harold H. Greene ruled that the allegations made by
Kimberlin against US Bureau of Prisons Director J. Michael Quinlan were "tangible and detailed"
enough to justify a trail. Kimberlin had accused Quinlan of ordering solitary confiment for him
when it became clear that his ability to further inform the media about Quayle's drug usdamage the Bush-Quayle effort. e would
In March, 1977, Congressman Dan Quayle contributed an article to the Fort Wayne Indiana News-
Sentinel in which he recommended that Congress take a "serious" look at marijuana
decriminalization. In Adecriminalization for fipril, 1978, Qrst-time users. [fn 42] uayle repeated this proposal, specifying he supported
As for Quayle's military service, he had enlisted in the Indiana National Guard on May 19, 1969, in
the midst of a freeze on further recruiting which had been ordered because the Indiana National
Guard had exceeded its legally mandated full complement of manpower. Guard service was popularamong those threatened by the draft, since it virtually guaranteed that service in Vietnam could be
avoided. Dan Quayle had been declared 1-A on May 25, 1969, when he was about to graduate from
DePauw University. Quayle-Pulliam family influence was instrumental in inducing National Guard
Major General Wendell Phillippi to admit Quayle and assign him to a desk job. At this time
Wendell Phillippi was also the managing editor of the Indianapolis News, a Pulliam familyproperty. [fn 43] Dan Quayle spent about one year in the National Guard working as a reporter for (^)
the quarterly publication, Indiana National Guard, a sinecure.
In contrast with all this, Quayle campaigned as a "Vietnam-era veteran" and a warmonger of
apocalyptic proport"would hurry Jesus's second coming" [fn 44] Dions. He once told a gathering of fundauring the Gulf crisis and the Iraq war of 1990-91,mentalist preachers that a nuclear war (^)
Quayle was the principal voice in the Bush Administration threatening the use of nuclear weapons
by the United States against Baghdad. This points to Quayle's important role in cementing Bush's
own Armageddon connection to the apocalyptic-millenarian strata among the Protestant evangelical
fundamentalists.
The power behind Dan Quayle is widely acknowledged to be his consort, Marilyn Tucker Quayle.
Mrs, Quayle has been described as a "prototype of the new-age political spouse: an asset to her
husband as a polished professional, not just a decorative surrogate." [fn 45] Mrs. Quayle comes
from an evangelical family; her father, of Nineveh, Indiana, believes that Satan is trying to destroy