European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes col urns Walter r. Mears Quay a follows textbook on vice presidencies the question is always More enticing Ihan the reply because there is Only one right answer Cor a vice president. And Dan Quayle gave it. No Quayle said he would not Dis close the Issue on which he had differed with president Bush.  vice presidents who did otherwise have been sorrier. Spire t. Agnew came quickly to regret the misgivings he expressed about the Nisi gestures in what became president Nixon s ripening to China. Hubert h. Humphrey Hud to Back off his own Effort 10 Chan an Independent and slightly different Vietnam i�1icy during the 1968 presiden tial Campaign Harmon 1 is the  Rule and the president picks the tunes. I m not going to get into private conversations that i have with the president what kind of influence and How 1 think 1 can influence his decisions Quayle told the american society of newspaper Edi tors. It would t be appropriate and 1 vib decided not to do it and if 1 did engage in it i would lose my effective Ness. So i m just not going to enter into that kind  that s right out of he vice presiden tial textbook according to Bush who kept his own counsel or eight years As no2 to Ronald Reagan lie joined the ticket in 1980 As a Defeated Reagan rival for. He presidential nomination. He was not a popular Choice among Many of Reagan s conservative allies. So there was a Premium on loyalty from he Start and Bush delivered. It paid double dividends As Bush became Reagan s political heir and sometimes took shelter from potentially Embarrass ing questions in the vows of privacy and. Silence he said his Job demanded. Quayle by contrast came to the Bush ticket As a Rookie in National poli ties got a faltering Start and still is work ing to shake the lightweight image shaped by his detractors not ail of whom arc demo cents. Thai s no easy task in a Job Nelson a Rockefeller described As standby equip Russell Baker  the prescribed duties arc largely ceremonial Quayle jokes that Bush offered to designate him funeral Czar since the vice president often gets the duty when foreign leaders die. The president has done a lot More than that to help the vice president prove him self Bush has Given Quayle a while mouse role much like his own. He sent the vice president on the first foreign assignment of the new administration to latin America and Quayle is about to begin a i Way mis Sion to Australia and Southeast Asia. They have shared platforms and some times audiences in one two appearances that Are unusual for presidents and vice presidents. Lush and Quayle both will address the members of the associated press in Sepa rate appearances in Chicago monday. The president is to speak is he a an Nual meeting the. Vice president two hours later at lie annual luncheon of the news cooperative. Both will answer questions As they did two Days apart a the Washington meeting of the american society of newspaper editors. Quayle Heads a revitalized National space Council a vice presidential assign ment Daling Back to the time when John of Kennedy could t figure Oul what to do with Lyndon . He also will run a new Council on. Compel Itic Ness which Mil seek ways to improve the . Position in world Trade. Perhaps most important Bush has Given Quayle a daily White House role much like his own. I meet with the president every  Quayle said. "1 have the right to go Inlo his office any Lime i want to. I can have a one on one celing any Lime. J have hem periodically. "1 have a weekly scheduled luncheon where inc president and i Sil Down and have go minutes together to go Over Var ious things. What do we discuss we discuss everything. I inject my opinions my ideas to him so it s not just one area that s carved out for myself there arc various things Quayle said All of that is on the Model of the Bush vice presidency now obviously i m a different individual than president Bush and obviously in a period of time you will have the Quayle Model of the vice presidency he said. We re just  own it Rin Pritam ind columnist la top. Big fees Ward off in wan fed speaking invites my lecture  $25,000. Thais for 20 minutes. If you want More than 20 minutes you pay overtime for a i my a meal before i he speech 1 charge a s5,000 Bonus. Will pose for photos with up to five members of the program committee without additional charge provided you pay the 15.000 eat the Cal Bonus. This information is disclosed in compliance with the Kennedy Simpson plan. Sens. Edward Kennedy d-mass., and Alan Simpson r-wyo., want full disclosure of any lecture business conducted by news people and i am glad of a. Chance to do the disclosing. Who glad when Many of my colleagues arc inking cover behind the Constitution us cause for one thing i am proud of my lecture fee i believe there Are few if any colleagues in in news Trade whose fees match it.1 have heard it rumoured that some peo ple certain giants of statesmanship com Mand comparable per Minnite rates to Csc top Dollar platform statesmen have names like Reagan Ford Kissinger. Hut not one of these stars so far As i can glean from the gossip charges the $5,000 Bonus for eating the meal apparently All cat the meal without charge. Also without insisting that the sponsor provide a Short term insurance policy against he potential result of taking i n Loo much creamed Chicken with peas. Great statesmen they May be but Icv have a Tot to Karn about the Art of survival on the lecture circuit. Moreover they arc giving themselves airs by idling people think they actually collect $25,000 per stand up. The truth and you can take it from a Veteran of the lecture circuit is not soda Iliria. First of ail the usual lecture agent skims 30 percent off the lop leaving Only si7,500. Then. There Are taxes which Lake a third of the residue say $6,000, obviously they re nol making $25,000, out something More like is i Soa. 1, on the other hand never have to share my Lake with anybody this is because i have yet to find a group so desperate to be talked at hat it is willing to pay my fee. Should such a profligate group suddenly appear in might be startled to hear that i Levy additional charges not cited  the escort assigned to meet me with the limousine at the Airport expect conversation while we ride into town  s100 a word whether uttered by the escort or me. Will i be distracted during the speech by certain members of the audience wit Heads in their plates snoring Inlo the mashed potatoes my charge will be $2,500 per scorer. Sens. Pc Nncy a id Simpson have be have like princes by creating the Neces sity for publishing this information Andi thank them since a Youthful fling in the lecturing game put my name on the lips of America s every Booker of after Din Ner harangues i have had a hard Tim retrieving the Solitude for which 1 Pine the $25,000 fee however works like a Charm once word gels around that the fellow they used to gel for $750 plus the Cost a Florce magic ringers vibrating cd sessions at inc Motel is now charging Las vegas rates. Surprisingly several colleagues in inc news. Trade have refused to declare i hair fees and others have declared fees so Lew thai i m forced to conclude they really enjoy dilating publicly Over Gravy and Hope to attract bargain Hunting speech bookers. This is a sad comment on the slate of journalism whose practitioner s duly is not to pour More blather Over an already glutted nation but As the Public s agent of common i sense to be appalled and delighted by those who do. Sens. Kennedy and Simpson alas May be just playing around teasing the journalists for their High moral tone now that news people have waded so deep into pulpit country " the two have a taste for mischief and Are doubtlessly trying to torment the journalistic tormentors of congressmen who talk for pay. If so the news people who Lake the High moral ground make easy victims with their Stuffy insistence on rights to privacy in business matters As Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakke Learned people who monopolize the High moral ground Are those most vulnerable in the Gleeful cry of hypocrite As for me when pressed to Tell unofficial persons my income front whatever source i always refuse absolutely and on utterly cynical ground. It is this Tell the world How much you earn and All who earn less will dislike you for being outrageously overpaid while All who Cam More will hold you in contempt for being Worth so Little. Why give the world another excuse to abuse you la ten Lwy Tel