Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the Fresno news conference, Dukakis said he decided "it was time to set the record straight" after President Reagan said last week that if Truman was alive today he would support Bush and the GOP.
Dukakis scoffed at Reagan's statement and said his fiscal conservatism and concern for children, health care, education, the environment and average families put him squarely in the mold of Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy.
"That's the tradition of liberalism I grew up in," Dukakis said. "That's the tradition I believe in. And I'm not going to let the Republican Party pervert that word and give it a meaning it doesn't have."
In an interview with the "MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour," Dukakis said he objected to the manner in which Bush has used the term liberal to describe his opponent.
Yet at the Sunday news conference, Dukakis refused to add less popular liberals--George McGovern, Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale--to his list.