Brook Line, Mass. Former Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential nominee candidate Michael S. Dokas’ wife Kitty Dox, who spoke openly about her struggle with depression and addiction. She was 88 years old.
On the telephone on Saturday, his son, John Dukas, said that Dukas died on Friday night, surrounded by his family on Friday night. He struggled to improve the world, “Helping others to deal with them, sharing its weaknesses.”
The statement said, “He was a loving, freesty and entertainment, and had a deep sensitivity to people from all walks of life.” “He and our father, Michael Dukes, shared a enviable partnership for more than 60 years and loved each other.”
Michael Dox, who is now 91 years, served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991. He was in his last period when he became the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988.
During his presidential election, Kitty scored the highest number as a political campaign, and stumbling for them. They were called key influence on the decision to preside over the presidency.
He also estimated the famous opening question of the 1988 presidential debate, when his husband was asked: “Governor, if you were abused and killed by Kitty Docs, would you support the death sentence for the killer?” Dokakis said he would not note his opposition to his commitment to death, but his non -emotional response was widely criticized.
Earlier in the campaign, in 1987, Kitty Dukas revealed that he had controlled 26 -year -old addiction in Amphitamines five years ago after being treated. He said he started taking food pills at the age of 19.
Her husband made anti -drag efforts a major problem, and she became prominent in trying to make young people aware of the dangers of drug and alcohol use.
But a few months after Michael Dukas lost the presidential election from Republican Vice President George HW Bush, Kitty Dukas enrolled 60 days of treatment for alcoholism. After several months, he suffered a recurrence and was admitted to the hospital after drinking alcohol.
In his 1990 autobiography, “you know now”, he blamed his mother for a long history of alcohol and drug addiction and low self -esteem. In 2006, he wrote another book, “Shak: Healing Power of Electroconolosio Therapy”, in which he gets electroconolosis therapy, or ECT, began in 2001 to remove the depression that had tolerated it for years. He wrote, “I opened a new reality for me.”
Massachusetts Government Morah Haley described Dox as “a force behind the power and the curtains in public life”, trying to ensure that the Holocaust never be forgotten, and a lawyer for children, women and refugees.
“She bravely talks about her struggle with the use of substances and mental health, which works as an inspiration to break and help us all,” Hailey said in a statement.
Doux used his personal pain to help others, Massachusetts. General Andrea Joi Campbell said in a statement on social media on Saturday.
“Her legacy will survive in the policies she helped and the people whom she encouraged to speak their truth,” Campbell said.
Maria Ivanova, director of the Northeast University Policy School, said that Docus openly talked about her struggle and received the support of homeless and political refugees.
“Kitty documents have brought honesty, sympathy and strength to the public life,” Ivanova said in a statement. “His legacy is one in service, flexibility and truth.”
Doux and her future husband met while studying at a high school in Brook Line, Mass, a suburb of Boston. He was dim and proportional. She was dramatic and liked. She is Greek Orthodox. She was a Jew.
Kitty, who was divorced and had a 3 -year -old son, married Michael in 1963, and had two children, Andrea and Kara.
His late father, Harry Alice Dickson, was the Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and he got a degree in modern dance and broadcasts.
After the presidential election, President Bush appointed him in 1989 at the Holocaust Memorial Council of the United States.
Earlier in 1979, he served in the Holocaust President’s Commission and the Board of Directors of the Refugee Policy Group. She was also a member of the task force on Cambodian children.
By the end of the 1990s, Dokas and her husband divided their time between Massachusetts and California, where she was a social worker and was a professor for a part of the year in the UCLA.
