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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.
This is a list of the oldest living people who have been verified to be alive as of the dates of the cited supporting sources. It was estimated in 2015 that between 150 and 600 living people had reached the age of 110. [1]
Trump was in command, relaxed, ready and able to tackle any question, old-school style. Trump was not working from a list of pre-approved questions from designated media folks.
Dukakis’s opponent, George H.W. Bush, innovated new types of negative campaigning that smeared Dukakis and seemed to shock or overwhelm him. Bush won 40 of 50 states and walloped Dukakis in the ...
Olympia Dukakis, a character actress best known for her Oscar-winning supporting turn in Norman Jewison’s “Moonstruck” and for her role as the wealthy widow in “Steel Magnolias,” has died.
Dukakis is a leading proponent of using ECT to treat depression. [13] Dukakis with her husband in 2012. In 2007, the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, opened a center for addiction treatment named after Dukakis. [14] Dukakis appears in the 2008 documentary on Lee Atwater, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.
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]