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Dan Quayle, having just been nominated for the Vice Presidency, is
immediately faced with tough questions not only on his avoidance of the
Vietnam War through the Indiana National Guard, and whether his parents
used undue influence to get him into it, but also on his poor
scholastic record, his even worse voting record on issues such as the
environment and civil rights, and a 1980 scandal in which lobbyist
Paula Parkinson, who was also a Playboy model, was alleged to have had
sex with various members of congress, and even videotaped some of the
encounters. A week later, Playboy prints an old statement by Parkinson
which does not say they had sex, but does say that Quayle suggested it
and "flirted a lot."
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