BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: First, in our "CNN 20" segment today, a look back at the debate of vice presidents in 1988.</s>CHARLES BIERBAUER, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: This was a vice presidential debate. Dan Quayle had already had plenty of difficulties in enunciating his position. Lloyd Bentsen wasn't exactly doing a lot of heavy lifting on this campaign. This was the Dukakis/Bentsen campaign. And so out in Omaha, Nebraska, when Dan Quayle made a reference to Jack Kennedy...</s>DAN QUAYLE (R), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.</s>BIERBAUER: Lloyd Bentsen was ready, and he delivered the line, and it became the only line that anyone really remembered from that debate, was...</s>LLOYD BENTSEN (D), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.</s>BIERBAUER: Dan Quayle's lasting impression from that debate and from that campaign was frozen in that moment. All Quayle could do was kind of stifle a -- a big gulp, and you could almost hear it and see it, and -- and his words were something to the effect of, that was uncalled for, and you -- you could see that he was stunned by Bentsen's delivery of this stiletto-like line that just punctured whatever enthusiasm, whatever energy might have been left in Dan Quayle.
CNN 20: 1988 Vice Presidential Debate, Lloyd Bentsen v. Dan Quayle