Kirsch was always politically active and after graduation she worked on Michael Dukakis' doomed presidential campaign.
Dukakis had been told in no uncertain terms that such a law would be unconstitutional.
Vice President Bush targeted the pollution in Boston Harbor to question Dukakis' environmental record.
Obama made the most unabashedly left-wing campaign of a presidential candidate since maybe Michael Dukakis.
The Republicans highlighted the veto to paint Dukakis as a liberal of the far left variety.
Those who oppose Dukakis generally do so because they feel he is too liberal.
Some conservatives persist in seeing him as a cross between Michael Dukakis and George McGovern.
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In 1988 he watched in pain as Michael Dukakis was battered without mercy by George Bush.
Despite the contrast in their running mates, Bush still beat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 election.
He eventually entered politics in 1982 as lieutenant governor under Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
"Dukakis has got more for the workingman than Reagan, and Bush is just another Reagan, " says Young.
And, if history is a guide, Bush and Dukakis would be well advised to do the same.
She had previously worked as office manager for Geraldine Ferraro's vice presidential campaign and Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign.
Mr Neustadt, who also advised Michael Dukakis, was often unlucky in those who heard his words of wisdom.
Michael Dukakis, as a solidly liberal Democratic governor, fought tooth and nail against such bills throughout the 1980s.
Eating pancakes at Barr's Cafe, Bob Clevenger, 67, a retired minister, says his main problem with Dukakis is credibility.
He eventually entered politics in 1982 as lieutenant governor under Gov. Michael Dukakis.
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"Joan of Arc" picked up two more nominations in the supporting actress list, in Jacqueline Bisset and Olympia Dukakis.
Combined with reports of a looming budget deficit, Republicans used the data to challenge the very centerpiece of Dukakis' campaign.
The trend was set by centrist William Weld after he succeeded Michael Dukakis in 1990 and extended by Paul Cellucci.
Betty Ford and Kitty Dukakis admitted to their own torment and subsequent substance abuse only after their husbands' presidential campaigns.
Third, the Bush campaign pointed to the polluted waters of Boston Harbor as proof that Dukakis was a poor governor.
Mr Gore is more likely to take a book on Swedish land planning on holiday, as Mr Dukakis once did.
George Bush senior squashed Michael Dukakis by accusing him of caring more about criminals and freeloaders than about hard-working families.
The Dukakis threat passed quickly, but my consulting relationship with the company persisted on and off for the next quarter century.
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The first Bush beat the somewhat robotic and unsympathetic Michael Dukakis but he then lost to the younger, more telegenic Clinton.
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The campaign was over the top that later a dying Republican strategist Lee Atwater called Mr. Dukakis to apologize for his tactics.
Bush and the Republican National Committee portrayed Dukakis as a northeastern liberal who was clueless about his own country, including its military.
There were three elements to this attack: first, Dukakis' refusal to compel pubic school teachers to lead students in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Many of Mr Gore's most prominent functionaries, including Donna Brazile, his campaign manager, cut their political teeth working for Michael Dukakis in 1988.
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