Mrs. Quayle Annoyed Over Attention Paid to Husband’s Gaffe
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WASHINGTON — Marilyn Quayle on Thursday expressed “complete and total irritation” at all the attention being paid to her husband’s spelling gaffe.
“He gives five speeches a day for 25 months, never makes a mistake,” Mrs. Quayle told Cable News Network. “He makes one mistake and they air, air and air it. Human beings make errors.
“I think you get irritated,” she said. “Right now it’s just complete and total irritation.”
Vice President Dan Quayle, during a Trenton, N.J., spelling bee this week, prompted sixth-grader William Figueroa to add an “e” to the word “potato.” Quayle was looking at a card that had the word spelled wrong.
William appeared Wednesday night on the David Letterman show and said: “I knew he was wrong. Since he’s the vice president, I went and put the ‘e’ on and he said, ‘That’s right, now go sit down.’
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