Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Jesse took advantage of [King's death] to propel himself into the limelight. There is an egomania that remains about him," she said in an interview with C-SPAN in 1989.
"Jesse's not just a formidable campaigner...he has a way of connecting with an audience and captures the essence of an issue in ways that the rest of us can't," says former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, who ran against Jackson in the 1988 Democratic primary. "It's more...
"[Jackson] missed his calling. What Jesse should be is our business shakedown artist," says black leader Bruce Llewelyn, who is a former member of the Carter administration.
"There is the smack of the eager about him," Frady says. "He is one of the few people whose direct ambition has been to become the moral leader of his time. This position came to King haphazardly, almost by happenstance, but Jesse has gone right for it."
"It's important to have people like [Jackson and Jimmy Carter] who can take their own personal prestige and put it to play at a time of crisis. The fact of the matter is that it's tough to turn down a request from Jesse Jackson," Dukakis says.