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, Indiana, a town where the Pulliam family controls
the local newspaper. He had always been endorsed by the 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 the black 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 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 of mine. 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 on the eve of the election did not take