(JTA) — With Michael Dukakis poised to clinch the Democratic nomination for president in 1988 ... during her husband’s presidential run. Shortly after his stinging defeat, she entered ...

But a few months after Michael Dukakis lost the election to Vice President George H.W. Bush, Kitty Dukakis entered a 60-day treatment program for alcoholism. Several months later she suffered a ...

BOSTON — Katharine “Kitty” Dukakis, wife of former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic Party nominee for president Michael Dukakis, has died. She was 88. A Massachusetts native ...

November 6, 1962 – Dukakis is elected to the ... Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) as his running mate. July 20, 1988 – Receives the nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention ...

As anyone who watched them together could see, former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis adored ... s Kennedy School while Dukakis campaigned for president. She also suggested she would ...

Kitty Dukakis, the former first lady of Massachusetts and the outspoken wife of 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis ... a political spouse Former President Jimmy Carter appointed ...