On This Day: June 15, 1992 — Dan Quayle Misspells Potato
One letter, one classroom, one career. On June 15, 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle walked into a sixth-grade spelling bee at Luis Munoz Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey, and walked out with the most famous misspelling in American political history. A 12-year-old named William Figueroa had just written “potato” on the chalkboard, exactly…