Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the height of last summer's presidential campaign, then-Vice President George Bush charged that his opponent, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis--a Law School graduate and former Kennedy School lecturer--had spent too much time in the "liberal boutique" that is Harvard.
But despite his Harvard-bashing campaign rhetoric, Bush relied heavily on his own cadre of ivory tower advisors, even citing by name Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 during his first televised debate with Dukakis.
Concludes Kristol, "There certainly would be many more leaves of absence if Dukakis had won. The school should be happy Bush won."
--Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, announcing that he will not run for the state's highest post after Gov. Michael S. Dukakis said he would not seek reelection.
In his office at the Kennedy School of Government sits a large Dukakis '88 portrait--unhung.