THE MIKE DOUGLAS DEMOCRATS

Published September 9, 1996 3:00am ET



 

IF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION’S endless parade of America’s most wounded was Oprah Winfrey for conservatives, the Democratic convention was Mike Douglas for liberals. You remember Mike Douglas, surely, the host of The Mike Douglas Show, a daily afternoon variety program of the 1960s and ’70s. It was a great favorite of pre-liberated stay-at-home women and retirees everywhere.

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