Word: lucey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lucey, the former governor of Wisconsin and ambassador to Mexico until 1979, has spent many years fighting uphill battles for his beliefs. A lifelong Democrat--he got into a schoolyard fight at age 10 for his support of Al Smith--Lucey worked to build up Wisconsin's Democratic party in the '50s, a time when the state was solidly Republican. He was an advisor to the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy '40 and Robert Kennedy '48, served as Eugene McCarthy's floor manager at the Chicago convention of 1968, and held the post of deputy campaign manager...
Today, after a few years' leave from politics to concentrate on his real estate business, Lucey is back in the fray. A fellow at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, he is also supporting former Senator-Walter F. Mondale's presidential bid and trying to develop "alternative" American policy positions for Central America...
...Lucey, who is currently auditing two Harvard courses on Latin America history and politics, says he is hoping to set up a "four-pronged" forum at the K-School for debate between representatives of El Salvador, Nicaragua, the Reagan Administration, and the Democratic Party...
...Lucey stepped down as the governor of Wisconsin to serve as President Carter's ambassador to Mexico. Though he was initially criticized for not spending enough time meeting with American businessmen there ("I didn't throw too many cocktail parties for corporate representatives." Lucey explains), he was successful in negotiating an important natural gas agreement with the Mexican government...
Having fulfilled what he saw as his "specific task." Lucey stepped down as ambassador, and soon signed up as a key strategist in Kennedy's presidential campaign. "My resignation came coincidentally at the time Ted was ready to launch his bid," he says. "Given that alternative, it wasn't difficult to see what I wanted to do next...