MICHAEL STANLEY DUKAKIS
b. November 3, 1933
FANS OF MICHAEL DUKAKIS
AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
WHICH NOMINATED HIM FOR PRESIDENT
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JULY 1988
Michael Dukakis, the longest-serving Massachusetts governor (1975-79 and 1983-91), chose Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) as his running mate (dreaming of JFK-LBJ/Boston-Austin?) in a convention "exhilarating the delegates" and leading to a party "unified, hungry to win" (see here for the instant first draft of history). Ann Richards gave the keynote address (see here); Jesse Jackson got his day in the TV sun (see here and here).
The author of the "Massachusetts Miracle," voted the most effective governor by his peers only two years before, got creamed (the bald facts are here) by two-term Vice-President George Bush (see here) and Senator Dan Quayle (R-IN) (see here).
Michael Dukakis's current Northeastern University faculty webpage is here; the official but useful Massachusetts gubernatorial webpage is here; and a photograph of the Dukakises and the (Boston Mayor) Kevin Whites on parade is here.
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