Kitty Dukakis, former first lady of Massachusetts and wife of US presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, has died.
Keiti’s son, John Dukakis, confirmed to Boston that he died on Friday night.
Born in Cambridge in 1936, Catherine Virginia Dixon was graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1954. She married Michael Dukakis in
Kitty was known as an explicit advocate for people with mental illness and addiction.
“He has lived a complete life to make the world a better place and share his weaknesses to help others to confront them,” Dukakis said in a statement.
“He was loved, enthusiastic and pleasant, he was very sensitive to the people of all sections of life,” the family said. “He and our father, Michael Dukakis, had more than 60 years of jealousy and loved each other deeply.
Due to his wife’s attempts in 1988, Dukakis obtained high marks as a political campaigner and fell tirelessly. In his decision to search for the presidency, it was called a major influence.
He even learned from the first question of the 1988 presidential debate, when he was asked his wife: “The ruler, if Kitty Dukakis is raped and killed, are you with the death penalty for the killer?” Dukakis said he wouldn’t do it and his insensitive answers were widely criticized.
Earlier, during the election campaign, in 1987, Dukakis revealed that five years earlier, after receiving a 26-year addiction, amphutines had a 26-year addiction. He said he started taking diesel pills at the age of 19.
Her husband made anti-drug attempts a big issue, which was visible in the efforts to educate young people against the dangers of drug use and alcohol.
But months after Michael Dukaks lost to Vice President George W. Bush, Kitty Dukaks entered a 60-day treatment program for alcohol. After months of recurrence of the disease, he was hospitalized after drinking alcohol.
In his biography in 1990, he said his mother was the reason for most of its addiction and drug addiction and a long history of lack of arrogance. In 2006, he wrote another book called “Shock,” which the electrical treatment that began in 2001 has written by relieving the depression he has suffered for years. He wrote, that solution wrote, “I did a new reality for me.
“I am sad to hear the death of Kitte Dukakis, a force for good in public life and behind the scenes,” Heli said in a statement. “He was a strong advocate for children, women and refugees, while playing a leadership role in ensuring that the Holocaust’s fears will never be forgotten.
He died next to her with her family.
Massachusetts Prosecutor Andrea Joe Campbell said in a statement on Saturday that Dukaks had used his own pain to help others.
“He’s living in politics that helped him formulate and those who inspired him to tell their truths,” Campbell said.
Dukakis and his future wife met while in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston neighborhood. He was dull and enthusiastic; He was a dramatic and fantasy. He is the Greek Orthodox; She was a Jewish woman.
Dukakis, who divorced and had a 3-year-old son, married Dukakis in 1963 and had two children, Andrea and Kara.
Dukakis, the late father, Harry Elis Dixon, a joint director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, received a certificate in modern dance and broadcasting.
After the 1989 presidential election, Bush was appointed as a member of the Holocaust Memorial Council of the United States.
He worked in the president’s refugee policy group in 1979. He was also a member of the Cambodian Children’s Service.
In the late 1990s, Dukaks and his wife divided their time between Massachusetts and California, who was a social employee, a professor for part of the year at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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