Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After travelling 600,000 miles and spending 20 months on the road with Michael S. Dukakis as the governor's right-hand man during the long and gruelling quest for the presidency, Nicholas T. Mitropoulis did not take off for Washington in January as he had hoped.
Along with Mitropoulis came a cadre of other top advisors from the Massachusetts governor's ill-fated campaign. Professor of Law Susan R. Estrich--Dukakis' campaign manager--resumed full-time occupancy in her office in Griswold Hall at the Law School, and Professor of Law Christopher F. Edley--the governor...
And following Mitropoulis through the Kennedy School's post-election revolving doors were Hale Champion--Dukakis' chief of staff--and Heather P. Campion--Kitty Dukakis' director of operations.
Scores of policy advisors to the Dukakis campaign--including Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and Ropes Professor of Political Economy Lawrence H. Summers--had to resign themselves to an extended stint in the Harvard "liberal boutique" of campaign...
But most of Dukakis' aides and advisors who came from Harvard say that the experience of working on a national campaign was worth the months sacrificed for the effort.