Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As he flew home to Boston last Friday night after a week of campaigning, Michael Dukakis drank orange and cranberry juice and invited TIME Boston bureau chief Robert Ajemian and correspondent Michael Riley to join him for a 75-minute conversation.
A. Wait a second. You can make your own judgment about the Willie Horton ad. But when the southern regional coordinator of the Bush campaign says we're going to push Mike Dukakis so far to the left, he's going to be to the left of collard greens, black...
A. Oh, come on. That's absurd. The Republican strategy as you well know was developed way back in the spring. Bush was making speeches attacking me in May. Look, everybody expects a certain amount of jabbing and poking at conventions. I mean they had their convention. I don't...
The public, though, allows the candidates to enjoy just so many benefits of ordinary life. Going to a psychiatrist or marriage counselor, for example, is still strictly taboo, and making such a step public can be politically damaging, if not fatal. Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis...
For Americans who take their civic obligations seriously, the choice that presents itself next Tuesday is inescapable. There will be no might-have-beens or none-of-the-aboves on the ballot. The primaries, polls and prognostications are merely an endless exhibition season; this is the one moment in four...