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Article: Dukakis-Jackson Talk Ushers In Harmony As Convention Opens
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- The Washington Post
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- July 19, 1988
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Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis negotiated a
breakfast-table truce with his most persistent rival, Jesse L.
Jackson, today as the Democratic National Convention opened with high
hopes that the new-found party harmony can help boost the Democrats
back into the White House in November.
Dukakis, the prospective nominee, apparently gained Jackson's
promise to campaign for the ticket without altering his positions or
making more than the expected gestures of inclusion to the black
civil rights leader and his followers. The agreement ended a week of
increasingly tense maneuverings between the winner of the primaries
and the leader of the party's most loyal constituency.
Tonight, more than ...