Dan quayle potato incident video

June 15, 1992—a day that will live in infamy. The day George H.W. Bush’s Vice President, Dan Quayle, told a 12-year-old that he misspelled “potato” whilst judging a 6th-grade spelling bee.

The then-Veep adamantly insisted that the word is spelled “potatoe,” in front of a room full of students, teachers, Secret Servicemen, and God.

Potatogate went on to become one of Quayle’s most memorable moments during his brief VP tenure, but whatever happened to that cute kid who, with a look of understandable disbelief on his face, dutifully added the unnecessary “e” to the end of the tuber, presumably because he’s a patriot, and freedom isn’t free, goddamnit?

Well, BuzzFeed News tracked him down yesterday for an episode of That Literally Happened, which recounts the whole strange, sad, starchy saga.

“I knew it was a bad day for him, but it was a good day for me,” the now-fortysomething William Figueroa recounte