On the front steps of the Dan Quayle museum in Huntington, Indiana, John Herrenden, a straw-haired 10-year-old in a Notre Dame baseball cap, is practicing the free-market entrepreneurialism once preached by the 44th Vice President of the United States: he's selling cups of Kool-Aid at 10 cents a pop. The flavor? "I think it's red," he says. "R-e-d," he adds, slowly and seriously.
But the boy, who attends the elementary school where young Danny Quayle learned to spell, was not the first person outside the museum when it opened last week in Huntington, a tidy, cheerful town of 18,000 located on...
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