Volume 35, Number 14 · September 29, 1988
The Dukakis Truce
By Murray Kempton
Politics is America's last cottage industry, and each of its artisans works alone and for no one except himself. Mario Cuomo joined Edward I. Koch and Jesse Jackson together recently in an uneasy and transient comradeship in the cause of Michael Dukakis. Dukakis's name was, by rough count, mentioned barely fifteen times, most often as a vague abstraction, in a press conference that ran close to three quarters of an hour.
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