Word: dukakises
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From his early campaigns in South Carolina through the 1988 presidential election, Lee Atwater has displayed a talent for smearing opponents and then either apologizing or suffering memory lapses about his role. Months after the Willie Horton issue had polluted Campaign '88, Atwater told reporters he wished he had never...
Why the sudden fondness for controversial reactors? The new Energy Secretary, James Watkins, is strongly pro-nuke, as is his boss, George Bush. So is Bush's chief of staff, John Sununu, the former New Hampshire Governor who championed Seabrook against objections of his neighboring Governor, Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts...
"Kitty did real campaigning," Campion says, explaining that the governor's wife travelled to several key states each day to campaign on behalf of her husband. At the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta--during which time Campion ran Kitty Dukakis' entire convention operation--the prospective First Lady surprised many by...
Most notable in Kitty Dukakis' performance throughout the campaign was a speech she gave on AIDS in San Francisco, in which she laid out new policy herself--the speech marked the first time the spouse of a candidate had done that.
Since the presidential campaign, the Kennedy School of Government has become synonymous in the media with technocratic competence and the name--and the failure--of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis.