Throwback Thursday
“Broom-clean” it wasn’t: Arch O’Reilly and assistant appointments secretary Jim French, from the administration of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, examine a mound of shredded documents found in the patronage office of outgoing Gov. Edward J. King at the State House in Boston hours after Dukakis was inaugurated in this Jan. 7, 1983 photo. The Associated Press reported that the pile included campaign papers and blank election-return sheets.(AP Photo/Peter Southwick)
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