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Dukakis attended Brookline High School in his hometown, [8] where he was an honor student and a member of the basketball, baseball, tennis, and cross-country teams. [9] As a 17-year-old senior in high school, he ran the Boston Marathon. [10] He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.
Michael Dukakis was the 65th and 67th governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991.His running mate, Lloyd Bentsen, was a U.S. senator from Texas, and a member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance who had previously run for the Democratic nomination in 1976.
Ron DeSantis is running for president on his record as Florida governor. That doesn't always work out so well, as 1988 presidential nominee Michael Dukakis learned the hard way.
Robin Toner of The New York Times wrote in 1990 that Republicans and Democrats, while disagreeing on the merits of the ad itself, agreed it was "devastating to Dukakis." [27] Dukakis said in 2012 that while he initially tried to ignore the ad during the 1988 campaign, two months later he "realized that I was getting killed with this stuff." [28]
Stage and screen actress Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her turn in 1988’s Moonstruck, has passed away. She was 89. Dukakis died Saturday morning, with news of her passing shared by her ...
Since the death of Jimmy Carter in 2024, this is the earliest election in which at least one of the major party nominees for president (Dukakis) or vice president (Quayle) is still alive (Bentsen died in 2006 and Bush died in 2018).
Technically this property is 118 years old; it opened as the Hotel Nevada in 1906. Along the wa,y the hotel was the site of many local firsts, such as the first phone number in Las Vegas (1907 ...
Dukakis was born John Chaffetz Jr. in San Jose, California, on June 9, 1958, [2] but reared in the Boston area. He is the son of Kitty Dukakis and John Chaffetz, a businessman, [3] and the adoptive son of former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis whom his mother married when he was five. [4]