Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trying to maintain their hold on conservative southern Democrats, Republicans may talk a lot about the Rev. Jesse Jackson, trying to frighten the millions of whites who opposed civil rights and backed Gov. George Wallace just 20 years ago. They'll keep referring to the Dukakis-Bentsen-Jackson ticket...
...reconciliation. Bentsen, he said, "represents the Establishment. I represent enthusiasm and energy." In a speech to the N.A.A.C.P. annual convention in Washington, a revved-up Jackson brought the audience to its feet when he cried, "One thing that I know. I may or I may not be on the ticket, but I am qualified. Qualified! Qualified...
...outskirts of his brother's career, organizing with him in the heady days of the C.O.D., winning his own term on the town-meeting committee, then changing party, competing for the votes of his parents (who had to change their registration to Republican when Stelian was on that ticket), trying to sabotage a campaign by his brother. In 1973 his bike was hit by a runaway driver; he lingered in the hospital for four months before dying, a partly shameful mystery to his family...
Dukakis' revulsion at political corruption descended to details from the outset. He boasted to his constituents, in the year Kennedy died, that "I haven't fixed a ticket." But others in the state were constantly fixing things -- a truth dreadfully confirmed for him in 1970, the year he lost his race for the lieutenant governorship. A boozy young driver with Irish political connections hit a campaign car accompanying Dukakis' own from a TV station. When Dukakis rushed to the hospital and saw one aide's head all bloodied, the normally controlled candidate fainted. That aide recovered, but another...
...dream ticket for the G.O.P.? The more George Bush cites "compatibility" as a quality in a running mate, the less chance Bob Dole has of being picked. At a recent rally in Atlanta, Dole arrived an hour late, cooling the crowd that was ready to cheer the waiting Bush. When Dole was applauded, he joked, "Well, I'd be willing to accept the nomination, but it left without me." Complained a Bush aide: "He still can't accept that it's over...