1988: And In A Supporting Role...

Quotes from Paul Slansky, The Clothes Have No Emperor—

8/3 "Look, I'm not going to pick on an invalid."
—President Reagan coyly refusing to demand that Michael Dukakis release his medical records in the wake of completely false rumors that he twice got depressed and consulted a psychiatrist!

8/14 President Reagan arrives in New Orleans [for the RNC], where he calls the Democrats "liberal" 22 times in his arrival speech. "It's time to talk issues, to use the dreaded 'L' word," he says. "Liberal, liberal, liberal."

11/1 Campaigning in California, President Reagan quotes that well-known character from fiction, "Huckleferry Binn."

11/7 "So if I could ask you one last time, tomorrow, when mountains greet the dawn, will you go out there and win one for the Gipper?"
—President Reagan making his last campaign appearance on behalf of George Bush, whose half-hour election eve ad omits any mention of a Mr. Dan Quayle