20 Years Later, It Turns Out Dan Quayle Was Right About Murphy Brown And Unmarried Moms
Isabel Sawhill May 25.
On May 19, 1992, as the presidential campaign season was heating up, Vice President Dan Quayle delivered a family-values speech that came to define him nearly as much as his spelling talents. Speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, he chided Murphy Brown — the fictional 40-something, divorced news anchor played by Candice Bergen on a CBS sitcom — for her decision to have a child outside of marriage.
20 Years Later, It Turns Out Dan Quayle Was Right About Murphy Brown And Unmarried Moms
