Elections can turn on a slip of the lip
Dennis Duggan
Dennis Duggan Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday
Only twice in the televised presidential debates I have
watched since the first one between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1960
have I seen a political career shattered by a question.
In the fall of 1988, broadcaster Bernard Shaw asked Massachusetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis, who was debating Vice President George Bush, father of the
current president, this question:
"Governor,...
