Dukakis Names Ex-Mondale Aide to Head Campaign
Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis named Susan R. Estrich as his new campaign manager Thursday. She moves up from the position of deputy campaign manager, which she had held since March, 1987, to replace John Sasso.
Sasso resigned from the campaign last week after admitting that he had distributed a so-called “attack video” on the speech-making practices of a rival Democratic candidate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware.
Estrich will face the task of righting a campaign that has been listing since Sasso’s resignation. Another senior Dukakis aide, Paul Tully, also resigned after admitting a role in the tape episode.
Estrich, 34, served as senior policy adviser to Walter F. Mondale during his 1984 presidential campaign and as an adviser to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) when he ran for President in 1980.
She has been a law professor at Harvard University since 1981. When a student at Harvard Law School, she became the first woman president of the Harvard Law Review. She is married to Marty Kaplan, vice president of Walt Disney Studios.
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