Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given this unforgiving history, something strange and profoundly un- Democratic is happening with the coronation of Michael Dukakis in Atlanta this week. After rending themselves apart for two decades, the Democrats have now come as close as they ever do to party harmony. There is nervousness, to be sure, over...
But in choosing Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen to share space on his campaign button, Dukakis took a deeply calculated risk, an atypical gamble. Bentsen is not a shoo-in to win Texas, George Bush's adopted state. He could hurt the ticket by being perceived as an affront to the...
In measuring the odds, however, Dukakis did not adequately consider one very large and unpredictable variable: Jesse Jackson. The gray and proper Bentsen would not exactly excite the 7 million who voted for the "rainbow coalition." That was understood. But then the sorry-I-missed-you phone call hit Jesse...
Dukakis ended his campaign in this year's California primary, simultaneously defeating and flattering Jesse Jackson, boasting that only in America -- and only in the Democratic Party -- could the party's two finalists for President be the son of poor Greek immigrants and the son of a poor black family...
Jesse Luke wasn't at the convention: he was working at Emory University, cleaning up after the folks from CBS who had rented out the dorms. He said he'd continue to back Jackson because he cares about the needy. "He's not just for the poor Blacks, but for...