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...Estrich is no rookie in national politics, either. The erstwhile professor served as deputy national issues director during the 1980 presidential campaign of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D--Mass.). Four years later, she worked for former Vice President Walter Mondale's presidential campaign as a senior policy advisor...
...experience is not limited to candidates. Estrich has been a prominent figure in the Democratic National Committee since serving on the the platform committee in 1984. She also co-chaired the 1985 Democratic Fairness Commission, which set the rules for this year's primary race...
...experience doesn't count for everything, and Estrich took her position at a potentially disastrous point in the Dukakis campaign. Sasso, a long-time friend and advisor of the Massachusetts governor, had resigned after admitting he distributed a videotape of several apparently plagiarized Biden speeches. The tape forced that candidate to withdraw from the race...
Quickly affirming that Sasso would no longer be involved with the campaign and that she had not known of the sabotage, Estrich pushed the campaign beyond the scandal and attracted public attention to issues of policy...
...intend to ensure that this campaign meets the very high standards that Mike Dukakis has set for us," Estrich said after she was named campaign manager in October. "This will be a positive, issue-oriented campaign...