Loyalty. Plain & simple.

It's all in Mary Matalin's book 'All's Fair - Love, War, and Running for President'...co-written with hubby James Carville about their budding romance while working for rival 1992 campaigns:

"Because his staff had been treated so badly (by the Reagan Administration), Bush was very good to Quayle. He also truly liked and respected the Vice President, and took his counsel. The rest of the President's staff was not always as generous."

There was talk of pulling Quayle as VP on the '92 ticket and moving to him a position in the President's Cabinet.

"Whatever the scenario, an absolute prerequisite was that Quayle himself step down voluntarily."

"Dan Quayle is an honorable guy. I believe if he had known empirically he was hurting Bush, and if a face-saving plan had been worked out, he would have pulled himself off the ticket. He said so that night on Larry King Live. He was never called upon to do so.

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