| Jun 1992 | Jun 19, 1992 - Another English botanist wrote in 1780 that "of all, the apple potatoe is liked best." Other worthies through the years have spelled it botata, battata, potade, potatus, patata, pottato, puttato, pertater. Dan Quayle has not begun to exhaust the possibilities. docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/WT/lib00179,0EB0EFA8AD061987.html
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| Jun 20, 1992 - The Cultural Elite has jumped all over Dan Quayle for his misspelling of "potato" the other day at a sixth-grade spelling bee. How like them. What's so wrong with spelling potato with an I do it myself once in a while, for variety's sake. Mr. Quayle probably confused the noun potato ... news.google.com/newspapers?id=UuwVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rhQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5486,2030707&dq= quayle+potato&hl=en
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| Jun 21, 1992 - DAN QUAYLE, this land's reserve CEO, managed to generate controversy the other day at a sixth-grade spelling bee. It seems he advised a young contestant to add an "e" to "potato," causing the Cultural Elite, which scorns him so, to scorn him mo'. The trouble with members of the CE set ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CS/lib00043,0EB581D08C71D39B.html
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| Jun 22, 1992 - WASHINGTON House Speaker- Tom Foley quails at the idea of being caught the sort o embarrassment the vice president endured over his misspelling of potato "At a breakfast with reporters Monday, the Washington state Democrat refused to join those lampooning Dan Quayle for following an ... news.google.com/newspapers?id=dCIVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZQcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5253,1384515&dq= quayle+potato&hl=en
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| Jun 23, 1992 - WASHINGTON House Speaker- Tom Foley quails at the idea of being caught in the sort o embarrassment the vice president endured over his misspelling of potato "At a breakfast with reporters Monday, the Washington state Democrat refused to join those Dan Quayle for following an erroneous ... news.google.com/newspapers?id=dSIVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZQcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5262,1726404&dq= quayle+potato&hl=en
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| Jun 23, 1992 - Everyone else has leaped in with both feet to mash Dan Quayle over his misspelling of "potato," but Tom Foley, a Democrat yet, refuses to join in. At a breakfast Monday in Washington with reporters, the speaker of the House declined to knock the VP, who last week followed an erroneous ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SJ/lib00189,0EB719B76E241C6A.html
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| Jul 1992 | Jul 14, 1992 - The shirts, highlighting Quayle's recent spelling gaffe, featured a potato caricature of Quayle with a red slash through his face. "When we tried to think of a design for a T-shirt," Smith explained, "we wanted to come up with something that would be a sure thing. ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/PBPB/lib00161,0EAF854F3B02099F.html
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| Jul 16, 1992 - It was a signed, handwritten note on Mr. Quayle's vice presidential letterhead sent to Mr. Snead last summer after Mr. Quayle played with the ... It begins: had a great time this weekend but the golf was Mr. Quayle's insistence that a sixth-grader add an when spelling "potato" last ... news.google.com/newspapers?id=xW8WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oxQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4688,15074&dq= quayle+potato&hl=en
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| Jul 17, 1992 - The demonstration was an allusion to Vice President Dan Quayle's misspelling of the word "potato' at a school spelling bee recently. (PHOTO ONLY). PHOTO(S): Members of the Idaho delegation hold up signs spelling their state's name incorrectly Thursday at the Democratic National ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/DM/lib00377,0ED3D2509E7495AC.html
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| Jul 29, 1992 - recent series depicting Mr. Quayle as hard-working and intelligent -- but the rule remains the sneer, the raspberry. When Mr. Quayle misspelled potato under conspicuous circumstances, the jeers redoubled. Mr. Clinton, in St. Louis the other day, used as a direct object (give Al Gore ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/DM/lib00377,0ED3D255682E04E9.html
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| Jul 30, 1992 - Had Quayle done it, the heavens would have fallen on him. Coats was right. Quayle's failings are magnified, while those of others are ignored or dismissed. He has been a wanted man since he misspelled "potato." That small catastrophe has sent him falling like someone in an elevator ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/74039981.html?dids=74039981:74039981&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+30%2C+1992...pub...Quayle...
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| Aug 1992 | Aug 9, 1992 - Mr. Quayle then had the nerve to misspell potato. What's even worse is that ``potato-e'' did not originate in the mind of Dan Quayle but rather on a spelling-bee card a teacher had made that Quayle was using to check the student's answer; but I don't think that fact got much coverage. ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/VP/lib00096,0EAFF5850B50F6FC.html
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| Aug 11, 1992 - Concerning the spelling of Vice President Dan Quayle, give the man a break! So, he spells it "potatoe." Perhaps we should ask ourselves if that appendage on the end of our foot is a toe or a "to"? I once had an English student who was convinced that the plural of mouse was "mouses" and ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CS/lib00043,0EB581EAD78D1D0C.html
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| Aug 16, 1992 - Vice President Dan Quayle gets handed a hot potato. Bush and Quayle get caught defending their children's right to choose on abortion. A campaign strategist releases an embarrassingly crude attack on the Democrats. The President has to deal with tabloid allegations about infidelity. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61193251.html?dids=61193251:61193251&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS: FT&type=current&date=Aug+16%2C+1992...
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| Aug 20, 1992 - The joke, of course, was that Quayle had made headlines a few weeks ago by instructing a New Jersey schoolchild that "potato" was spelled with a final "e." Quayle has been praised this week by President Bush and former President Ronald Reagan. But it is Reagan's praise that he ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61204220.html?dids=61204220:61204220&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS: FT&type=current&date=Aug...Quayle...
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| Aug 20, 1992 - Recalling his own misspelling of the word potato, Quayle said that after he attacked Clinton's "liberalism," the Arkansas governor said he doubted Quayle could spell the word. "I can spell liberal," said Quayle. "It's CLINTON - (long pause) E," he said, to loud, ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/68795641.html?dids=68795641:68795641&FMT=ABS&FMTS =ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+20%2C+1992&author...pub...
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| Aug 21, 1992 - Well, if they're moderates, I'ma world champion speller," said the man who became a subject of national laughter when he publicly spelled potato as "potatoe." Since Bush's surprise selection of Quayle as his running mate four years ago, the 45-year-old former senator and congressman ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/77412794.html?dids=77412794:77412794&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+21%2C+1992&author...Quayle...
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| Aug 31, 1992 - And while Vice President Dan Quayle wasn't in the audience, he was there in spirit as entertainers and presenters took numerous jabs at his ... "You had better be able to spell the word 'potato,' because if the economy doesn't get any better, that's all we're going to be eating, pal. ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/RM/lib00244,0EB4DB2351CD596E.html
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| Aug 31, 1992 - [Candice Bergen] and her series "Murphy Brown," which came under attack from Vice President Dan Quayle because its lead character had a baby out ... In reference to Quayle's publicized misspelling of the word potato, she thanked her writers for their words "and spelling them correctly. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61629340.html?dids=61629340:61629340&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS: FT&type=current&date=Aug...Quayle...
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| Oct 1992 | Oct 22, 1992 - Can he spell potato?" Some protesters carried signs that said "Ignorance is blisse," and "Marry a real man." Mrs. Quayle responded, "Do you want to debate instead of having me up here? Are you here to hear me or are you going to sit there and interrupt? "You want to know something? ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/DP/lib00153,0EB1DB48E3FEC01C.html
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