Dan Quayle Quotes
I made a misstatement, and I stand by all my misstatements.
J. Danforth Quayle, Vice President of the United States (Republican, IN), Video, "Who is Dan Quayle?
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Kennedy had compiled all the overt Federal, State and Local laws and ordinances that required or supported discrimination against Blacks. At the time it was published, the Cold War was raging and the Communists were claiming all over Europe that the United States was really not free given the racial discrimination. With Kennedy’s book, they had a field day citing chapter and verse and naming communities and reading the laws all over the United States. The U. S. Information Agency and the CIA were both were having a difficult time coping with the Communists use of Kennedy’s book, and a CIA agent approached Kennedy and offered to make him “financially independent” if he would repudiate the book and stop publication.
At the time McCarthy made this statement he was suffering from an advanced state of alcoholism. He was censured. See {619921}.
Many politicians, wanting to distance themselves from a statement that they had made in the past, fumble the denial much like this. Others with more humor, have quoted Berra where the meaning is “I really didn’t mean everything I said.”
James Danforth Quayle is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993, a U.S. representative from 1977 to 1981 and a U.S. senator from Indiana from 1981 to 1989.
