Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis wound up a trip to Missouri by suggesting his campaign could be struck by the same political lightning that returned favorite son Harry Truman to the White House in 1948.
"In politics, as you all know, 11 days is an eternity," Dukakis said at a morning rally at a Kansas City Baptist church before he flew to Detroit. "There is time to do it."
Despite a pledge to shun negative campaigning between now and the election, Bush also stayed on the attack, warning that Dukakis "wants to torpedo the prosperity we've worked so hard to achieve."
Bush also disputed Dukakis' assertion that American families have been able to keep up financially only because more women have been working outside their homes.
Dukakis' trip to the Detroit suburbs brought him to within a few miles of the factory where the helmeted candidate's ride in a tank a few weeks ago--to show his support for building up conventional forces--turned into a public relations disaster. The Republicans even used film of...