
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 29, 1990                   TAG: 9005290224
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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BAKER ON MOVE?

AT THEIR mother's knee, American boys and girls traditionally learn that anyone can grow up to become president. Or - never mind the growing-up part - vice president. Look at Dan Quayle.

Some Republicans are looking at Dan Quayle, and not altogether favorably. They want him replaced on the 1992 ticket. One who'd like to be his replacement, it is said, is Secretary of State James Baker.

Baker, however, is from Texas. So is his close friend President Bush, and the 12th Amendment forbids the presidency and vice presidency being held by people from the same state. It happens that Baker recently bought a ranch in Wyoming, and Washington cognoscenti say he did so to qualify as a resident of that state so he can run on the ticket with Bush.

He needn't have gone to all that trouble. All that's necessary is for Bush to list himself as from Maine - where he has his summer home - and give up his Texas address: a three-room hotel suite in Houston.

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