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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yearned for bed. But top aides were troubled. They blasted Dukakis for failing to define himself. "Governor, you never gave the people of Iowa a chance to know who you are," an observer recalls saying. Then, in a harangue laced with expletives, they pleaded another point: "You've got to go negative on them." But Dukakis did not budge, "That's not why I'm running," he said...
...Dukakis' "strategy of shrugging off attacks suddenly stopped looking presidential and started looking weak," says a top aide. Estrich dismissed the potency of patriotism as an issue. "If Bush thinks he's going to get anywhere with this Pledge stuff, he's crazy," she told an adviser. "We've got this Supreme Court decision." That was the problem. Months after Bush first raised the issue, Dukakis finally responded: "If the Vice President is saying he'd sign an unconstitutional bill, then in my judgment he's not fit to hold the office." This pained legalism betrayed the limits...
...next afternoon for Bush's return to New Hampshire. Sitting next to Bush on the plane, she tried to make sense of what he was trying to say about himself. His hands fluttered near his chest, as if seeking his heart, and he said softly, "I guess we've got to get more of me out there." Working all night in her hotel room, Noonan cobbled together a stump speech that revealed a new Bush persona, later known as the "kinder, gentler" George. "Here I stand, warts and all," she wrote (attributing the phrase incorrectly to Abraham Lincoln...
Lucky for Dukakis. At the endorsement ceremony, Koch spent less time praising Gore than attempting to bury Jackson. Standing like an uncomfortable visiting nephew at Koch's side, Gore was splattered by the flying mud. On primary day, he got only 10% of the vote, thus assuring Dukakis the nomination...
Dukakis was impressed. He asked Sasso to put all this in a memo and report back in a few weeks. A week later, Dukakis changed his mind. Newspaper stories speculated that Sasso was about to be recalled. Spooked by all the media attention, Dukakis got word to Sasso to forget about...