With Simpson ruled out, the finalists included both Bob and Elizabeth Dole; Jack Kemp; Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico; and a little-known junior senator from Indiana named Dan Quayle, talked up by conservatives as a fresh face at age forty-one. Quayle would be a reassuringly hard-line presence on a ticket with Bush, who had never really overcome their doubts despite eight years as Reagan's loyal sidekick. (Donald Trump, the media-hungry developer who had groused about Baker's economic policies sent word through Lee Atwater that he would be willing to serve as vice-president, an offer that Bush dismissed as "strange and unbelievable.")
-Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
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