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...Republican State Convention then endorsed the candidacy of state Representative Royall Switzler of Wellesley, a well-known, colorful gadfly. Switzler later admitted he had lied about his military record when he claimed to have served as a Green Beret in Vietnam. Switzler's Vietnam combat experience, he revealed, had consisted of watching footage on the evening news...
...Switzler was soon forced to step down, and the party quickly appointed a Waltham businessman, George Kariotis, to head the ticket. Dukakis won the general election handily by a margin of 69 to 31 percent...
However, he chose a trump card to play in last night's reply to the charges. He answered that "Anybody who thinks people like Greg Hyatt and [Wellesley State Rep.] Royall Switzler ought to be in his cabinet is really..." and was drowned out by laughter and applause...
...third Republican nominee to oppose Dukakis this year, Kariotis had offered cabinet positions to his predecessors. Hyatt left the gubernatorial race after allegations emerged of fraud on his election papers and bizarre personal conduct. Switzler bowed out soon after, when he was found to have falsified his Vietnam War record. Both appeared on the ballot in the primary, while Kariotis waged an unsuccessful write-in campaign, gaining the nomination by default...
...candidate, Gregory S. Hyatt, has fallen to twin charges of inappropriate personal behavior and forged signatures on campaign forms. Another, State Rep. Royall Switzler (R-Wellesley), was felled by a phony war record...