Quayle Failed Broad Political Science Test at College: Professor
Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle failed a comprehensive political science exam that he needed to graduate from DePauw University, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
The newspaper said Frank Darling, chairman of the political science department at the Greencastle, Ind., university in 1969, confirmed that Quayle, a political science major, flunked the examination.
But Darling said Quayle was allowed to take another test and passed.
The Journal quoted Darling as saying that to the best of his recollection, only two political science majors out of about 25 failed the test in 1969.
Quayle has acknowledged that his undergraduate career was lackluster.
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