Dan Quayle

He is of Manx descent, as evidenced by his surname. Some of the many products made by Tyco include:. He particularly enjoys watching his children as they participate in team sports. The verdicts carry potential jail terms of up to 25 years. Quayle enjoys golf, tennis, basketball, skiing, horseback riding, fly fishing, and reading. On June 17, 2005, after a retrial, Kozlowski and Swartz were convicted on all but one of the more than 30 counts against them. They are the parents of three children: Tucker, Benjamin, and Corinne. Judge Michael Obus declared a mistrial on April 2, 2004.

In November 1972, Quayle married the former Marilyn Tucker of Indianapolis. She later denied she had intended that gesture, but the incident received much publicity, and the juror received threats after her name became public. He is the son of Jim and Corinne Quayle of Huntington, Indiana. During jury deliberations, one juror passing through the courtroom appeared to make an "okay" sign with her fingers to the defense table. Quayle, the oldest of four children, has two brothers and a sister: Chris, Mike, and Martha. During their trial in March 2004, they contended the board of directors authorized it as compensation. The former vice president also writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards, chairs several business ventures, and was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee. Swartz, were accused of the theft of US $600 million from the company.

His second book, The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong, came out in the spring of 1996 and Worth Fighting For came out in 1999. Its former chairman and chief executive Dennis Kozlowski and former chief financial officer Mark H. Dan Quayle is the author of Standing Firm, a vice-presidential memoir that became a nationwide bestseller. . He is an Honorary Trustee Emeriti of the Hudson Institute. The current CEO of the company is Ed Breen who came over from Motorola. Former Vice President Dan Quayle is an advisor to the firm Cerberus Capital Management and president of Quayle and Associates. Unlike other companies where fraud and other charges were made public in 2001 and 2002, such as Enron and HealthSouth, Tyco was never in a cash crisis.

He is sometimes mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008. In hindsight this may have been an illusion generated by the ways in which the acquisitions were treated on the company's books. He withdrew from the race the following month. Throughout the 90's, Tyco's earnings seemed to improve steadily, with many investors giving it Blue chip status. In the first contest among the Republican candidates, the Iowa straw poll of August 1999, he finished 8th. During this time, Tyco spun off the deep-sea cable laying division it had purchased from AT&T as Tyco Submarine Systems in a much anticipated IPO. In April 1999 he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2000 Presidential Election. Partly in response to this, shareholders fought a proxy battle to reincorporate in Delaware, but this effort was rebuffed by the board of directors.

However, it was ultimately a minor factor in the election, which Bush and Quayle went on to lose. The rumors were strongly denied by Tyco's leadership, who accused the sources of selling Tyco shares short for personal gain. Republicans were largely relieved and pleased, and Quayle's camp hailed his performance as an upset triumph against a veteran debater. In 1999, just prior to a stock split, rumors of accouting irregularities surfaced. Quayle faced off against Gore in the vice-presidential debate, and, due in part to exceeding low expectations and staying on the offensive by tactics such as criticizing passages in Gore's book Earth in the Balance [During planning negotiations for the upcoming televised debates, Vice-President Quayle's team insisted that he be able to hold a copy of Gore's book for dramatic effect- the Gore team retorted that Gore ought to be able to hold up a potato.] Quayle was generally seen to have at least tied Gore, faring much better than he had against Bentsen four years earlier. income taxes. Al Gore. Tyco moved its official address (but little else) to Bermuda in 1997 in order to avoid paying U.S.

Bill Clinton and Sen. Some of these acquisitions included household names such as ADT Security, Curad, and divisions of Siemens, Raytheon and AT&T. During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by Democrats Gov. In 1992 Dennis Kozlowski became CEO of Tyco, and for the next several years, Tyco adopted an aggressive acquisition strategy, eventually acquiring (by some accounts) over 1000 other companies between 1991 and 2001. In 2002, Candice Bergen, the actress, made the comment, "I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.". Tyco International should not be confused with the similarly named Tyco Toys, a division of Mattel. In the 1992-93 season premiere of Murphy Brown, Brown, the character, watched Quayle's comments on television and responded on the show. Major business areas of Tyco include electronic components, health care, fire safety, security, and fluid control.

The "Murphy Brown speech" and the resulting media coverage damaged the Republican ticket in the 1992 presidential election and became one of the most memorable incidents of the 1992 campaign. Tyco International Ltd. NYSE: TYC is a conglomerate with official headquarters in Bermuda, though most of its administrative and executive functions are actually run out of New York and New Hampshire, and its operations headquarters are in New Jersey. In an aside, he specifically cited the fictional title character in the television program Murphy Brown as an example of how popular culture contributes to this "poverty of values", saying: "[i]t doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown—a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman—mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.'" Quayle drew a firestorm of criticism from feminist and liberal organizations and was widely ridiculed by late night talk show hosts for this remark. Polyken pipeline products. on a decay of moral values and family structure in American society. Nashua duct tape. In this speech Quayle blamed the violence in L.A. Valves and related products.

On May 19, 1992 Quayle gave a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California on the subject of the Los Angeles riots. Curad brand bandages. The misspelling remains a source of intense criticism of Quayle's leadership abilities. Security systems (ADT). It was widely lambasted by comedians and commentators, and purportedly demonstrated defective execution of official duties. Pharmaceuticals (leading producer of narcotics and acetaminophen), Mallinckrodt laboratory chemicals. The event became the single most memorable and lasting part of Quayle's career. Plastic products.

Quayle was allegedly relying on a spelling-bee card on which the word had been misspelled by the teacher. Medical supplies (Kendall wound care, Monoject syringes, Shiley endotracheal tubes). Most famous was his correcting a student's spelling of potato as potatoe at an elementary school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey on June 15, 1992. Fire sprinklers. Other critics facetiously remarked that he was a good reason for even Bush's critics to pray for his health and that he was only Vice President to make Bush "impeachment-proof". Engineering services. He received the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for "demonstrating, better than anyone else, the need for science education" in 1991. Critical communications systems OpenSky and EDACS.

Bush. Electronic components and cables[1]. [1] Some of the comments he actually did make have been attributed to other politicians, such as George W. One reason was that he sometimes made confused or garbled statements, although this tendency led to his being "credited" with apocryphal quotations. Throughout his time as Vice President, Quayle was widely ridiculed in the media and by some of the general public as a mental lightweight.

On February 9, 1989, President Bush named Quayle head of the Council on Competitiveness. As Vice President, Quayle was the first chairman of the National Space Council, a space policy body reestablished by statute in 1988. Quayle was the 44th Vice President of the United States from January 20, 1989, to January 20, 1993. Although Republicans were trailing by up to 15 points in public opinion polls taken prior to the convention, the Bush/Quayle ticket went on to win the November election by a convincing 54-46 margin, sweeping 40 states and capturing 426 electoral votes.

The ads, however, seemed to have little effect. Ads supporting Michael Dukakis and Bentsen showed a beeping heart monitor and an announcer saying, "Quayle: just a heartbeat away," with the implication that Quayle was not up to the job of the presidency should he have to assume it. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." Quayle sheepishly responded, "That was uncalled for, Senator," in one of the defining moments of the 1988 campaign. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.

I knew Jack Kennedy. Democratic candidate Lloyd Bentsen said in rebuttal, "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. This came to a head in the 1988 vice-presidential debate, in which Quayle compared his experience to that of John Kennedy when he became president. Many in the media also portrayed him as a lightweight unable to handle the job.

Questions were raised about Quayle's apparent use of family connections to get into the Indiana National Guard and thus avoid possible combat service in the Vietnam War. This decision was criticized by many who felt that Quayle did not have enough experience to be president should something happen to Bush. Bush called on Quayle to be his running mate in the general election. W.

In August 1988, at the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, George H. The nomination was later withdrawn. It was later revealed that Manion was a member of the John Birch Society and that the American Bar Association had evaluated him as unqualified. In 1986, Quayle received much criticism from his fellow Senators for championing the cause of Daniel Manion, who was a candidate to be a federal judge.

This was the only major legislation that ever bore Quayle's name the entire time he served in both the House and the Senate. In 1982, working with Senator Edward Kennedy, Quayle authored the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). With his service on the Armed Services Committee, the Budget Committee, and the Labor and Human Resources Committee, he became an effective Senator, respected by colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Senate, Quayle became widely known for his legislative work in the areas of defense, arms control, labor, and human resources.

During his tenure in the U.S. Making Indiana political history again, Quayle was reelected to the Senate in 1986 with the largest margin ever achieved to that date by a candidate in a statewide Indiana race. Senate from the State of Indiana, defeating three-term incumbent Democrat Birch Bayh. In 1980, at age 33, Quayle became the youngest person ever elected to the U.S.

He won reelection in 1978 by the greatest percentage margin ever achieved to that date in the northeast Indiana district. Congress from Indiana's Fourth Congressional District, defeating an eight-term incumbent Democrat. In 1976, Quayle was elected to the U.S. Upon receiving his law degree, Quayle worked as associate publisher of his family's newspaper, the Huntington Herald-Press, and practiced law with his wife in Huntington.

From 1973-1974, he was the Director of the Inheritance Tax Division of the Indiana Department of Revenue. Later that year, he became an administrative assistant to Governor Edgar Whitcomb. Quayle's public service began in July 1971 when he became an investigator for the Consumer Protection Division of the Indiana Attorney General's Office. While serving in the Guard, he earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1974 at Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis through an experimental program intended to offer "equal opportunity" to minorities, the economically disadvantaged and other students of different viewpoints and backgrounds.

After receiving his degree, Quayle joined the Indiana National Guard and served from 1969-1975. degree in political science in 1969, and where he was a member of the fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon. He then matriculated at DePauw University, where he received his B.A. After spending much of his youth in Arizona, he graduated from Huntington High School in Huntington, Indiana in 1965.

Quayle moved his family to Arizona in 1955 to run a branch of family's publishing empire. James C. Pulliam, was a wealthy and influential publishing magnate who founded Central Newspapers, Inc., owner of over a dozen major newspapers such as the Arizona Republic and The Indianapolis Star. His maternal grandfather, Eugene C.

In his memoirs, Dan Quayle points out that his birth name was simply James Danforth Quayle. He has often been incorrectly referred to as James Danforth Quayle III. Quayle and Corrine Pulliam Quayle. Quayle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to James C.

. In 2000, he was an unsuccessful candidate to win the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Bush (1989-1993). W.

James Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) was the 44th Vice President of the United States under George H. hardcover, ISBN 0060177586; mass market paperback, May, 1995; ISBN 0061093904; Limited edition, 1994, ISBN 0060176016. Dan Quayle, Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir, Harper Collins, May 1994.