Michael Dukakis

(noun)

An American politician who served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988.

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Examples of Michael Dukakis in the following topics:

  • The Election of 1988

    • Bush over Democrat Michael Dukakis.
    • Bush won the Republican nomination, while the Democrats nominated Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis.
    • Confident they could win back the White House, Democrats mounted a campaign focused on more effective and competent government under the leadership of Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis.
    • When Bush found himself down in the polls, political advisor Lee Atwater launched an aggressively negative media campaign, accusing Dukakis of being soft on crime and connecting his liberal policies to a brutal murder in Massachusetts.
    • Michael Dukakis at a campaign rally at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion on the eve of the 1988 election.

  • Racial Tensions and Black Lives Matter

    • Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 police shooting deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City.
    • Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was shot and killed on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, by Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer.
    • In August of 2014, BLM members organized their first in-person national protest in the form of a "Black Lives Matter Freedom Ride" to Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting of Michael Brown.

  • The Flowering of Black Freedom Struggle

    • James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were found weeks later, murdered by conspirators who turned out to be local members of the Klan.

  • Compassionate Conservatism

    • As former Bush chief speechwriter Michael Gerson put it, "Compassionate conservatism is the theory that the government should encourage the effective provision of social services without providing the service itself."

  • Marriage Equality and the Courts

    • Plaintiffs Gregory Bourke (left) and Michael DeLeon (right) celebrate outside the Supreme Court building on June 26, 2015.

  • The Inventions of the Telephone and Electricity

    • In 1831 and 1832, Michael Faraday discovered the operating principle of electromagnetic generators.

  • Hurricane Katrina

    • Critics argued that FEMA was to blame and that its director, Michael D.

  • Nixon and Foreign Policy

    • According to author Michael Klare, application of the Nixon Doctrine "opened the floodgates" of U.S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, setting the stage for the Carter Doctrine in 1980.

  • The Muckrakers

    • McClure, also emphasized factual reporting, but he also wanted what historian Michael Schudson had identified as one of the preferred qualities of journalism at the time, namely, the mixture of "reliability and sparkle" to interest a mass audience.