still, even in the his ultimate defeat and mobilization behind dukakis -- remember dukakis? [laughter] behind dukakis' candidacy as in 1984, jackson injected the moribund democratic discussion with progressive, moral convictions about economic justice and stopping militaristic interventionist foreign policy. in doing so, he kept the fire alive for what howard dean a generation later called the democratic wig of the democratic -- wing of the democratic party. additionally, as several observers apprehended at the time, jackson played an important trailblazing role for future minority candidates. one columnist el eyesed, no one who has seen the white hands of farmers and the elderly straining to see jackson could doubt that his campaign would leave the country less racist that at founding adding, though, that jackson may have to settle for being the one on whose shoulders others stand to climb through. so there's much in the sort of mainstream politics of the '80s or much mainstream democratic politics that's actually pretty resonant with the last presidential election and go a

together and marched to the state capital for a celebration featuring guest speaker and advocate, kitty dukakis. recovery friends and advocates in honolulu, hawaii, participated in a charity recovery walk and 5k run. following the run, attendees enjoyed music, food, popsicles, volleyball, and fellowship. members of the daytona beach, florida, community celebrated recovery with a motorcycle ride, entertainment, testimonies, and information on supportive services. the free celebration started with a bike ride to the beautiful halifax river for a dare extreme stunt rider show with a prevention message to young people. also included in the event was a talent contest, toys for kids, food, and fun! mohave county substance abuse treatment education and prevention partnership and the kingman area meth coalition hosted a parade walk to support recovery in kingman, arizona. shirts were given out to all walkers, and there was an opportunity to carry signs promoting treatment. waianae women in recovery held a special recovery campout for women and children. there were activities for women, teens, children,

even for a democrat but people have long memories nine hundred eighty eight mike dukakis was a likely was the democratic nominee for president and as governor he let convicted murderers who were sentenced to life without parole out of prison on weekends ok takes a long time to live that one down for the democratic party and it cost him a good chunk of a presidential race so people remember that sort of thing and you're right democrats overreacting to their week on crime and reputation often go over the reason why we had hundred one rates of putting people in prison on crack cocaine versus powder cocaine was the liberal side of the black caucus were out there the loudest the most just in the eighty's and that law. thinking they were protecting their communities and it's been. a lot of people have been in fact last time and some restraint has been brought there it's been brought down from one hundred one ratio to eighteen to one now obviously like i said this is a very interesting pair hearing to have people like yourself join together with i never turn together with a.c.l.u. and while

he talked about how he wants to apologize to michael dukakis. he said sometimes when his little daughters wanted to get his attention they would pretend to interview him for television. "time" magazine had an interview with mcnamara who expressed proregret about the course of the vietnam war. when he was asked who really knew him that he couldn't answer that question. that he couldn't say that his children did. that was a hard thing to have to admit. it was a combination of the deep regrets about personal decisions that had ir revocably shaped public policy and the sense on the part of both men they had missed out with their own children seemed so compelling. and to say something about how macho can lee you cold and lonely after your days of power and influence are done. host: when you look ahead, what do you see in this country? guest: oh, gosh that is a tough question. i'm always amazed at the ability of americans to bounce back from almost anything. and on a micro level to do the right thing. you know, so often we look at the macro level at w

my father married my mother, and kitty married michael dukakis. i help out.rted to internalize that i was a conservative person. i get to meet ronald reagan in 1991, and i was off to the races. i was 16 years in a local business community before i get involved in politics, and then i had this opportunity to be the campaign messenger -- manager. host: what you think of the tea party? guest: i love it. it is a group of people not normally in the political process, who decided to be part of the solution. these are good, old-fashioned americans to see their country on the wrong track. they want to get it on the right track. they have been demonized. these are good, old-fashioned americans who want to be involved. we should be encouraging people from the entire political spectrum to get involved. host: what could speaker john boehner didn't begin be doing better? -- speaker john boehner be doing better? guest: he has a big heart. he cares about this country. if people could get to know him the way i know him, they would love the -- the man. host: we have rachel, a

that campaign by after they lost the speed dukakis's. were on the wilshire boulevard he was sitting with his arms and its share he was a conservative and i wasn't and he said what you see is what you get. then i said to john, what happens if he loses? >> and then you can get this. a like the ambassadorship so i lost the election i went down in january to see him. i walked into his office director political operation is in the right place. you do not go to those meetings without an agenda so he said to me why you want to be an ambassador? i looked at him and said because i want to learn a second language. [laughter] so she said go upstairs to one lady who was well-dressed and pulled the map down everything that is green is available read is not available and yellow is taken. costa rica sounds good. so i went down and went down to the dominican republic there is already a part in the book and that is when i left. i never thought i would win the next election but i did. that was 1982. and wrote the book i think you may find fascinating it i

. >> reporter: how about jackie "o," michael dukakis, as well as other men with presidential ties.better not see this. there's one question i couldn't resist asking. i'm a newlywed, it piques my curiosity. >> we're looking at areas of face, impairing it. the ratio, to see if it's a match or not. >> i've been told we look good together, i've never heard we look-alike. but 63 is a good number. that is a match? >> yeah, anything over 50 is good. >> that's great news for us. >> we asked viewers if they thought they looked like their other half. abcnews.com was flooded. take a look. patricia garcia sent in this picture of she and her husband. megan and kyle, her boyfriend, is he shed people mistake them as twins. >> it's very brave of you to do that with peter? >> peter said i couldn't run this piece. so there are other celebrities that also look-alike. we have reese witherspoon and justin timberlake. >> she just got married. >> penelope cruz and javier bardem. >> and that's close. i'm proud of my 76% match with jackie. >> wow. >> whoo. how about cynthia's? >> we don't want do leave her

speaking in terms of we want the department to do want to do and what your views were with michael dukakis or -- it didn't make that much difference, so i remember in the 90's people wrote essays neoconservatism is a distinctive way of thinking it's just going to go away and that's fine. it did its job in the 20 years but he then rights leader on i think in 2003 that it turns out neoconservatism's and i think this is rated as a subterranean stream that it appears at different times and in funny ways. it goes away. so for a few years if you are fighting together against obamacare, the libertarian critique coming you and i could read them and distinguish them i think and the critiques in the national affairs are different than cato institute they are in some ways but some of the differences reappear. i think they will reappear this year actually when the republicans and the house would cut the budget, but are the priorities, how old, are we ready to retire the welfare state or trying to get rid of social security or put it on sound footing there i think the neoconservatives verses, libertari

he cut his political teeth in the 1988 dukakis campaign and on the staff of mario cuomo before joining the 1992 clinton campaign as its economic policy adviser. during bill clinton's first term as president, he served as the deputy director of the newly created national economic council. he was the director of the national economic council from 1996 until 2000. he played significant roles in the 1993 deficit reduction act and the 1997 balanced budget agreement. i guess we have deja vu. those who remember his service recall his very effective and efficient ways. he was recognized for being able to have policy and presswork in a way that you can. his best and highest talent is an extraordinary ability to make a substantive policy developments that make them convincing to the message people. he certainly needs that talent now. he was recalled into service by president obama. he became the president of the national economic council in january and assistant to the president for economic policy. he is in the midst of this budget battle. i am sure you will have some interesting insights to sh

he cut his political teeth in the 1988 dukakis campaign and on the staff of mario cuomo before joining the clinton campaign as the economic policy adviser during bill clinton's's first term as president from 1993 and 1996 he served as a deputy director of the newly created national economic council then its national economic adviser to clinton and director of the national economic council from 1996 to 2000. he played significant roles and let's put this into current context because it fits, he played significant roles in the 1993 deficit reduction act, and the 1997 balanced budget agreement. so i guess we've got a dÉjÀ do with a difference. those who remember his service in the administration, clinton administration best particularly recall his very effective and efficient workaholic ways, the nickname "gene the machine," and the office was known as the bureau of gene. now we have to police genie out of the bottle. he was also recognized for being able to merge politics policy press working in a way that few can. as brad put it, gene's best talent is an extraordinary ability to make th

he catches cortical teeth in the 1988 dukakis campaign and on the staff of governor mario cuomo beforeoining the 1992 clinton campaign as its economic policy adviser. during bill clinton's first term as president from 1993 to 1996, he served as a deputy you're of the newly created national economic council and adviser to clinton and director of the national economic council from 1996 to 2000. he played significant roles and let's put that into current context because it fits. he played significant roles in the 1993 deficit reduction act and the 1997 balanced budget agreement. so i guess we've got dÉjÀ vu with a difference. those who remember his service in the devastation does clinton administration and who particularly recall his effect it an efficient workaholic ways, the nickname gene the machine comes from that time and as counselor the secretary of treasury geithner, who thought this known as the bureau of gene. now he has to pull a genie out of the bottle. he was also recognized for being able to merge politics, policy and press were in the way if you can as brad delong put it je

instead they got the fiscal policy of walter mondale and phaou cal due -- michael dukakis.taxpayers who use their own dollars to deduct mortgage interest, make contributions to charities, save for education or save in a pension plan will be treated the same as spending for nevada's cowboy poetry festival. to me, they are not the same. but to the president, they are. david plouffe, the president's senior advisor and former campaign manager, had this to say about the president's proposal -- quote -- "people like him who have been very fortunate in life have the ability to pay a little bit more. well, that's big of him. we hear this quote quite a bit from rich democrats. please tax us more, they say. well, i know a whrot don't say that -- a lot who don't say that. as the ranking member on the senate finance committee, i feel obligateed to tell mr. plouffe, those rich democrats can write a check to the i.r.s. and make a payment on their tax returns to pay down the federal debt. the option is right there at the bottom of their tax return. this might be a good talking point. i am

he cut his political teeth in the 1988 dukakis campaign and on the staff of mario cuomo before joining the 1992 clinton campaign as a policy adviser. during clinton's first term as president, he served as deputy director of the new the created national economic council. he was director of the national economic council from 1996 to 2000. he played significant roles in the 1993 deficit reduction act and the 1997 balanced budget agreement. i guess we have deja vu with the difference. those who remember his service in the clinton administration recall his effective and efficient workaholic ways. the nickname "gene the machine" comes from that time. his office was known as the bureau of gene. now he has to pull the genie out of the bottle. he was known to manage policy and press in a way that you can. it has been said that his highest talent is an extraordinary ability to make policy arguments in a way that makes them convincing to the message people and legislative people. he certainly needs that talent now. he was recalled into government service president obama. he became director again