Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Quayle Reportedly Campaigned for Job

Dan Quayle for six months waged a quiet campaign to get George Bush to choose him as a running mate in 1988, the Washington Post quoted the vice president as saying. Quayle told the newspaper: “You don’t run for vice president, but . . . there are ways you can be put on the ‘available’ chart. . . . You keep expectations down and do things as quietly and subtly as possible.” The article portrayed Quayle as an ambitious politician whose selection “was the happy result of months of subtle, even stealthy planning. . . .” Quayle said he decided early in 1988 that it was time to “roll the dice . . . and if the vice presidency happens to come along, so be it.” The paper said he spoke often with Bush campaign aides Roger Ailes and Robert M. Teeter.