 However, he did critique the press for its coverage of the 1988 United States presidential election, when Dan Quayle, Pulliam's nephew, was the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee and elected to office.Pulliam chastised the press for what he claimed to have been "unfair and inaccurate reporting" during the campaign.Pulliam died in Indianapolis on January 20, 1999, at the age of eighty-four.