Quayle had been quietly campaigning for the job since Bush beat Bob Dole in the New Hampshire primary. He put himself in the forefront of legislative battles over issues that he knew would matter in the 1988 presidential campaign—over a plant-closings bill, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with the Soviet Union, and the defense budget bill, which Quayle helped persuade President Reagan to veto—and he lobbied Bush aides such as Roger Ailes and Bob Teeter, who had worked on his Senate campaigns. His friend Ken Adelman wrote an op-ed piece urging his selection that Bush read and underlined. Bush was swayed.