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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.
During the campaign, Dukakis was the target of several now-infamous attack ads by individuals supporting the Bush campaign, most infamously the "Willie Horton" ad produced by the pro-Bush National Security Political Action Committee. Although the Bush campaign disavowed the ad, [26] it still played a major role in Dukakis' defeat. [27]
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]
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 ...
The Oscar-winner and star of "Steel Magnolias" died on Saturday at the age of 89.
First Lady of the People's Republic of China; widow of the President of China Li Xiannian [279] David W. Torrance: M: June 22, 1924: 100 years, 188 days: British: Church minister [280] László Fuchs: M: June 24, 1924: 100 years, 186 days: Hungarian-born American: Mathematician [281] Roberto Ledesma: M: June 26, 1924: 100 years, 184 days: Cuban ...
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.
"Appointment of Katharine D. Dukakis as a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council 1989-12-19", George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College Station, Texas. A short profile of her education and career; Dukakis, Kitty; Tye, Larry, 'I Feel Good, I Feel Alive', Newsweek, September 18, 2006. An article in which she discusses ...