Former Vice President Dan Quayle honored the late President George H. W. Bush, calling him a “close friend” who urged him to forge his own…
Former Vice President Dan Quayle honored the late President George H. W. Bush, calling him a “close friend” who urged him to forge his own path as his right-hand man.
“Vice presidents don’t always stay on the best terms with the presidents they serve. What starts out as partly a political calculation, the selection of a running mate, is by no means certain to mature into warm friendship. In our case, what made all the difference was a few choices we made early—and the character of Bush himself,” Quayle wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
“In our conversations after the 1988 election, the new president’s best advice for doing the job was: ‘Be prepared and be loyal.’ Even so, he didn’t press me at all to handle my responsibilities exactly as he had done. He encouraged me to find my own approach to the office—a Quayle model. I told him the Bush model looked pretty good to me, and I would go with that,” he added, referring to Bush’s time as President Regan’s vice president.
