European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes columns Walter r. Mears it s hard to Tell when a vice president is great Dan Quayle s new Boss says the 44lh vice president of the United Stal swill be one of he great ones but it s going to be hard 10 Tell whether he is or not. Greatness is not easily discerned in understudied. Nobody much remembers vice presi dents who do not gel promoted. Thirteen going on 14, of he men who have served by standing wailing and presiding Over the Senate have become presidents by succession or by election. Unless they made their Marks else where the rest Aren t As Well known As Alexander  1hc Broad Way veep who got the Job by losing a drawing and then had to join a tour group to find a Way into the while House. For the record Charles Curtis was the real vice president when of thee Ising opened in 1931. He was said to have been the inspiration for the throw to Bottom  who has faced democratic scorn and Republican reservations complained during the Campaign about being depicted As a sort of male Bimbo. One of his Campaign  seemed to be to lower his photogenic profile. George Bush campaigned with him Only twice and mentioned him infrequently. For All the democratic complaints about negative campaigning by the re publicans nobody faced so Savage and personal an onslaught As j. Danforth Quayle. There s been nothing like i since the democratic Campaign Commer Cial two decades ago that showed Spiro to. Agnew s face against a sound track of laughter but Quayle says he s willing to be a target and thai Lite image lies Eon Jer cd about is that of the incoming president. He s had a baptism by fire bus said after the election but steel is Laugher harder when it s been tempered by the flame. Sudden National Fame can be Tough it can be Tough on your family. We All know that All of us. But let me Tell you about him. He s going o be one of the Mike Silverman Battle lines with the books barely closed on the 1988 elections Many politicians arc looking to 1989, when Vir Ginia could elect a Black governor. New Jersey must pick a successor to gov. Thomas Kean and new York and Chicago May have spirited contests for mayor other big cities will hold mayoral elections As Well. Tom Bradley of los Angeles and Coteman Young of Detroit have already announced they will seek fifth terms and Henry Cisneros of san Antonio Texas has declared he Wilt not. Kathy Whitmire of Houston and Donald Fraser of Minneapolis arc expected to run again Andrew  Atlanta cannot seek re Etc lion and George Voinovich of Cleveland fresh irom defeat in a Senate race has t said whether he will. -. V.".-. The biggest Battles could shape up in new York where de Koch faces severe image problems As he bids for a fourth term and Chicago where acting mayor Eugene Sawyer is Likely to face a multitude of opponents if the courts Clear the Way for an election. Koch 3 Democrat who breezed to a third term with 7s percent of the Vole in 1985, has been battered lately in Public opinion polls amid municipal scandals deteriorating race relations and other problems. He said he expects next Yeary election to be his toughest Campaign and intends Lei rely on the memory Factor his Hope that new yorkers believe things were worse a before he became mayor. Among possible opponents none yet declared arc great vice  but John Nance gamer who held the Job for two terms under Franklin d. Roosevelt and said it was t Worth a bucket of warm spit once ventured this observation a great Man May be vice president but he can i. Be a great vice president because the office in itself is in import  a frequent pastime of Quayle s predecessors was talking about what Lousy Job they held. It started with the first of them John Adams. My country has in its Wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that Ever the invention of Man contrived or his imagination conceived said the no. 2 Man to George washing Ion. It was Albert Barney elected As Harry s. Truman s vice president in 1948 at the age of 70, who told about the Man who had two sons one went to sea the other was elected vice president. He never heard of either of them  Bui when the Call comes not Many politicians have turned Down second place on a presidential ticket. Bush said he had t yet worked out the details of Quayle s assignments when Quayle in t Reading the kind of tomes he mentioned during the vice presidential debate he May find Comfort and vice presidential conversation pieces in America s vice presi dents a 1984 Book by Donna Dixon scaly. It offers a readable essay on each of them Adams to Bush if anybody starts giving him a hard time about his full name again Asmi Chad Dukakis tried to do Quayle can look Back to vice president George m. Dallas who gave his name to a Small Texas town in 1846. Or to vice presi Dent Henry Wilson who changed his name from Jeremiah Jones Coubal when hews 21. Or he can read scaly s account of James s. Sherman the overweight run Ning mate to the hefty William Howard Tali they got on Well at first and be came golfing companions. This continued unlit Taft discovered nol Only that his vice president would not go along with his Reform programs but that he did not play Golf very Well she writes. Neither dissent nor errant Golf in Likely to trouble the new vice presi Dent Quayle plays to a seven Handicap editor s note whte h. Atm n Lucu Liv � . Attorney Rudolph Giuliani a Republican know for prosecuting the mafia lax evader and the mar costs Charlesj syncs special stale prosecutor who won convictions in the Howard Bench racial attack Case former gov Hugh Carey and Manhattan Bor Ough president David Dinkins who is Black. The nation s largest City has never had a Black mayor. Chicago politicians expect the Illinois supreme court to Rule shortly whether a special election must be held Early next year or whether Sawyer can serve until 1991, when the term of the late Harold Washington the City s first Black mayor would have expired. Sawyer who also is Black was appointed by an angrily divided City Council after Washington died of a heart attack a year ago just months into Bis Sec Ond term.  " already four aldermen two White and two Black and the former superintendent of the Chicago Park District also White have announced their candidacies. Sawyer is withholding a formal announcement until the court ruling. Also awaiting that decision is Cook county slate s attorney Richard m. Daley son of the late mayor and an unsuccessful mayoral candidate in 1983. All Are democrats. Race also could be a Factor in Virginia where the democratic nominating convention is expected to choose i gov. L. Douglas Wilder As its first Blac candidate for governor Wilder has the backing of gov. Gerald a Baliles who is baited by slate Law from seeking a second consecutive four year term. -89 a of ans with three prominent republicans interested in running the gop ii considering settling the. Matter with a primary instead of at a party convention. The three Are outgoing sen. Paul s. Trible jr., former at Torney general j. Marshall Coltman and rep Stan Ford . No state has Ever elected a Black As governor. According to Joseph e. Kallenbach a retired univer sity of Michigan professor who wrote a history of governors the Only Black to serve As governor was pack Ney Pinchbeck who was elected lieutenant governor in Louisiana in 1868 and took Over the top spot for a month when the incumbent was impeach to. I in new Jersey where Kean a popular Republican. Is barred from seeking a Bird term several prominent politician from both parties Are expected to run forthe Job. Among Hie Likely Democrat is rep. James Flono who lost to Kean in 1981 in the closed election in new Jersey history. Landslide. The opinions expressed in the column and cartoon on ibis Page represent los of the authors and Art in no Way to be considered a representing Ike Siewt of the stars and Stripe or the United states