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20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried moms

by Isabel Sawhill

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.

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