Word: gov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are camping out in make-shift shacks, staging rallies and mailing pennies to state representatives to protest legislators plans to cut $31 million from Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' proposed higher education budget...
...interesting and disappointing story he tells is about how he could not support Civil Rights legislation in the 1940s. The senator writes that he wanted to support the legislation but adds that he had to come out against it in public because he feared losing an election to Arkansas Gov. Homer Adkins. In what amounts to a poor rationalization of his actions, Fulbright defends his statement that Blacks did not deserve to vote and his opposition to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education as the only way he could stay in office and gradually educate...
...Boston news offices buzzed this week with the rumor that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis was resigning his post to accept the deanship of the Kennedy School of Government, Kennedy School insiders proceeded to ridicule the rumor...
Duncan, who was press secretary for Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' presidential campaign, is writing a book about the 1988 New Hampshire primary. He also served as the deputy press secretary for Walter F. Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign...
THIS summer, during the presidential campaign, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis belittled the critical voices that were just beginning to speak out, saying, "Those are Jerry Williams' people." While Williams, who hosts a show on WRKOAM, is indeed one of the governor's most vocal critics, Dukakis' comments made it seem as if his foes included only a small lunatic fringe...