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(“You don’t put stuff on your head if you’re president,” he said. I sat in countless meetings in which some smartass warned that a stop on the president’s schedule had the makings of a “Dukakis in the tank moment.” The caution usually came when some type of costume was involved, and the tank ride is still to this day invoked anytime politicians decline to put hats on their heads-as President Obama did earlier this year when he was handed a Navy football helmet but refused to try it on. ![]() Like Bennett, I too worked on the Dukakis campaign, and we went on to serve together in the Clinton White House. 13, 1988, has haunted me, as it has every other advance person who has been entrusted-for a few hours or even a few minutes-with a candidate’s fate. ![]() The image of the diminutive Massachusetts governor pretending to be something he wasn’t and, in the process, making a fool of himself on Sept.
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