Michael Dukakis

Michael Stanley Dukakis (, born November 3, 1933) served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving Governor in Massachusetts and only the second Greek-American governor in United States history, after Spiro Agnew.

In 1988, he was the Democratic nominee for President, but lost to Republican then–Vice President, George H. W. Bush.

After the 1988 Election
Dukakis was mentioned as candidate for Massachusetts Senator for a possible interim successor to Ted Kennedy, after Kennedy's death but Governor Deval Patrick chose Paul G. Kirk, the other candidate and a favorite of the Kennedy Family.

In 2008, he talked about his defeat in an interview with Katie Couric, in which he said he "owe[d] the American people an apology" because "if I had beaten the old man, we never would have heard of the kid, and we wouldn't be in this mess."

References

Other websites
Official Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governors Biography 

Michael S. Dukakis  at the Northeastern University Department of Political Science
Michael Dukakis  at UCLA
The Michael S. Dukakis Presidential Campaign records, 1962–1989 (bulk 1987–1988)  are in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.
The Joseph D. Warren papers, 1972–2003 (bulk 1980–1990)  are in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.
Dukakis discusses presidential debates  as reported in the Harvard Law Record
Dukakis mentioned on MSNBC's Morning Joe: The Scoop on 'Boogie Man'

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