Word: sasso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Almost as if anticipating facile and unflattering comparisons with Jimmy Carter, the Dukakis camp goes out of its way to insist that the Governor has learned to set limited and attainable priorities. Paul Brountas, who has replaced former Campaign Manager John Sasso as the candidate's closest confidant, contends that Dukakis failed in his abortive first term because "there were far too many legislative initiatives." Brountas predicts that the domestic agenda of Dukakis' first year in the White House would consist of perhaps a "half dozen manageable programs." Seated one row behind a dozing and generally far vaguer Dukakis aboard...
Campaign Manager Susan Estrich, 35, is likely to be part of any Administration. A former Harvard Law Review president and Supreme Court clerk who is on leave as a professor at the law school, Estrich took over the campaign during the turmoil after John Sasso's resignation. Another 35-year- old Harvard Law School professor, Christopher Edley, has done an outstanding job as the campaign's issues director. The top-ranking black on the Governor's team, Edley could wind up as chief domestic-policy adviser. Standing in the wings is Sasso, the mastermind of the campaign, who left after...
Some Dukakis aides say privately that they would not be surprised to see Sasso back at Dukakis' side if he won the November election...
Dukakis met Sasso a few days after the 1978 loss, keeping a promise he had made to assist a referendum drive that Sasso managed. Sasso, impressed that Dukakis had kept his word despite the crushing defeat, offered to help Dukakis if he ever ran for office again...
After returning to Dukakis' staff following the Ferraro campaign Sasso and another gubernatorial aides urged Dukakis to run for president, saying his optimism and record would offer the Democratic Party a fresh alternative to the "doom and gloom" approach Sasso blamed for the crushing defeats of Mondale in 1984 and President Carter...