In the Calvin Coolidge fan club with Michael Dukakis

As a loyal Democrat, a liberal, a first-generation son of Greek immigrants, and a tax-and-spend activist who was elected three times (in four tries) to the Commonwealth’s highest office, Dukakis would appear to have little in common with the quiet, frugal, conservative Yankee who preceded him on Beacon Hill by more than half a century. That’s what Dukakis used to think too.

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