CAMPAIGN ’88 : Dukakis on the Job
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Democrat Michael S. Dukakis, taking time from his presidential campaign to tend to his duties as governor of Massachusetts, met briefly with the president of Iceland on Monday in Boston.
Dukakis was photographed in his office with President Vigdis Finnbogadottir, who delivered a commencement address at Smith College on Sunday. Finnbogadottir was on a promotional tour of the Boston area.
Aides to Dukakis described the meeting--one of several between Dukakis and visiting foreign dignitaries over the past 14 months--as a courtesy call. The governor and the president spoke in private for about 15 minutes, according to Dukakis Press Secretary James Dorsey.
![1988: The image of George H.W. Bush towering over his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, might be the second-most notable contrast in debate history (after the first Nixon-Kennedy debate). What you might remember: At the start of the second meeting held at UCLAs Pauley Pavilion -- CNN newsman Bernard Shaw asked Dukakis, an opponent of the death penalty, one of the more shocking questions in debate history: Governor, if [your wife] Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? Dukakis bland response sealed his fate in the general election. What you might have forgotten: Just about everything else in the two debates.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/76e543a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/586x392+0+17/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F79%2F73%2F27f118f5a47485c01012372b100f%2Fla-pres-debate1988-i5paygkf)
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