American Ingenuity-Dukakis, Mike (Michael Stanley)-[Democratic], 1988

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Identifier: P-1039-42440

We live in a tough competitive world, but we're not going to win by just shaking our fists at our foreign competitors. We've got to roll up our sleeves and put our American ingenuity to work. We've got to modernize our factories and retrain our workers and educate our kids. We've got to get serious about daycare and drug abuse and health care. And we've got to get American corporations to invest in our future, not in fast buck takeover deals. America took on the world before, and we won. And if I'm president, we're going to do it again.

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In this 1988 political advertisement, presidential candidate Michael Stanley “Mike” Dukakis emphasizes cooperative, forward-looking policies, including the modernization of factories, investment in education, and efforts to address healthcare and drug abuse. He urges corporations to invest in America’s future rather than pursue short-term profit schemes and assures voters that, under his presidency, America will prevail as it has before.