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Two decades after Vice President Dan Quayle took a television character to task for her decision to become a single mother, Isabel Sawhill, co-director the Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families, pointed out that Quayle’s criticism may have been spot-on. “Unlike Murphy Brown — who always had the able Eldin by her side — most women do not have the flexibility afforded a presumably highly paid broadcast journalist,” Sawhill wrote in “20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown.” Above, Candice Bergen as “Murphy Brown” with the show’s cast in 1988 file photo. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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