Mike Dukakis' Revenge

Elena Kagan

Dukakis Campaign: Researcher
Subsequent Fame: Supreme Court nominee

Madeleine Albright

Dukakis Campaign: Foreign policy adviser
Subsequent Fame: Secretary of State under Bill Clinton

George Stephanopoulos

Dukakis Campaign: Rapid Response Team
Subsequent Fame: Clinton administration adviser; ABC News chief political correspondent

Larry Summers

Dukakis Campaign: Unpaid economic adviser, Harvard professor
Subsequent Fame: President of Harvard University 2001-06; top economic adviser, Obama administration

Michael Aronson

Dukakis Campaign: Speechwriter
Subsequent Fame: New York Daily News editorial page editor; 1988 and 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner

Susan Rice

Dukakis Campaign: Foreign policy aide
Subsequent Fame: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

John Podesta

Dukakis Campaign: Lieutenant on Issues staff
Subsequent Fame: Clinton chief of staff (1998-2001); president of Center for American Progress

Mark Katz

Dukakis Campaign: Rapid Response Team, wrote daily hotline briefings
Subsequent Fame: Humor speechwriter for President Clinton 2000-08; principal of the Soundbite Institute (and Daily Beast contributor)

Tom Donilon

Dukakis Campaign: Senior adviser, responsible for debate preparation
Subsequent Fame: Deputy national security adviser for the Obama administration

James Steinberg

Dukakis Campaign: Deputy issues director
Subsequent Fame: Deputy Secretary of State for the Obama administration

Matt Tyrnauer

Dukakis Campaign: Assistant to the campaign manager
Subsequent Fame: Write-director of Valentino: The Last Emperor, Vanity Fair staff writer

Dayton Duncan

Dukakis Campaign: National press secretary
Subsequent Fame: Filmmaker in collaboration with Ken Burns; author

Michael Barr

Dukakis Campaign: Issues staff
Subsequent Fame: Assistant secretary for financial institutions

Rosa deLauro

Dukakis Campaign: Campaign director for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut
Subsequent Fame: Connecticut congresswoman

Gene Sperling

Dukakis Campaign: Issues staff, famous for putting in 21-hour days
Subsequent Fame: Counselor to Timothy Geithner, former head of National Economic Council

Joe Lockhart

Dukakis Campaign: Deputy press secretary
Subsequent Fame: Clinton campaign press secretary

Sylvia Matthews Burwell

Dukakis Campaign: Researcher
Subsequent Fame: President of Global Development Program at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Josh Steiner

Dukakis Campaign: Issues staff
Subsequent Fame: Co-president and managing partner, Quadrangle

Michael Whouley

Dukakis Campaign: Adviser, field operative
Subsequent Fame: President, Dewey Square Group; portrayed by Dennis Leary in HBO’s Recount, based on the 2000 Gore campaign

Todd Stern

Dukakis Campaign: Issues staff
Subsequent Fame: Special envoy for climate change

Tony West

Dukakis Campaign: Assistant to Bob Farmer
Subsequent Fame: Assistant attorney general, Civil Division

Keith Boykin

Dukakis Campaign: Traveling press aide
Subsequent Fame: Prominent blogger and talking head

Bob Farmer

Dukakis Campaign: Head fundraiser
Subsequent Fame: Fundraiser who became consul general to Bermuda under Clinton

Bob Boorstin

Dukakis Campaign: Issues staff, ran convention logistics
Subsequent Fame: Runs Google’s lobbying efforts; director of corporate and policy communications in Google's Washington, D.C., office

Vicky Rideout

Dukakis Campaign: Issues staff

Subsequent Fame: Vice president of Kaiser Family Foundation & Spartacus Media Enterprises; Hollywood social activist, power player

Chris Edley

Dukakis Campaign: Ran Issues office; Harvard professor
Subsequent Fame: Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), adviser to Obama during campaign

Mark Gearan

Dukakis Campaign: Ran headquarters press office, campaign spokesman
Subsequent Fame: Former head of Peace Corps; president of Hobart William Smith College

Leslie Dach

Dukakis Campaign: Communications director
Subsequent Fame: As special counselor to CEO of Walmart, launched major public-relations campaign improving the company’s image

Mindy Lubber

Dukakis Campaign: Senior adviser and communications director
Subsequent Fame: President of Ceres, an environmentally focused investment group

Dwight Holton

Dukakis Campaign: “Advance man,” sent to events ahead of the candidate
Subsequent Fame: U.S. attorney for the District of Oregon

Vanessa Kirsch

Dukakis Campaign: Field coordinator
Post-Dukakis: Leading social venture capitalist, president and founder of New Profit Inc.

Clay Constantinou

Dukakis Campaign: New Jersey campaign
Subsequent Fame: U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg (1994-99); member of Patton & Boggs Public Policy and International Practice Groups