vice president dan quayle blamed the violence on a "poverty of values" – "i believe the lawless social anarchy which we saw is directly related to the breakdown of family structure, personal responsibility and social order in too many areas of our society" similarly, the white house press secretary, marlin fitzwater, alleged that "many of the root problems that have resulted in inner city difficulties were started in the '60s and '70s and ... they have failed ... [n]ow we are paying the price."