Tsongas’s sole bittersweet victory that day came in his home state of Massachusetts. “Ultimately, Paul was running on a platform, on a vision, and not everyone liked it,” Kanin said.

The other afternoon, after Democratic presidential hopeful Paul E. Tsongas had finished an appearance here, a supporter in the audience named Mary Beth Murray came up to him in the corridor with ...

LOWELL — Paul Tsongas’ campaign for president in 1992 took him on stump speeches in New Hampshire and Iowa and across the country as he leapt from a relative unknown as a former U.S. Senator ...

Liberal round pegs no longer fit into the square realities of our world, and the conservative square pegs prevailed. — Paul E. Tsongas, “The Road From Here” (1981) BOSTON — … ...

This year`s political buzzword-electability-is fast becoming this year`s political euphemism when it comes to Paul Tsongas.When Democrats worry and Republicans hope that Tsongas can`t get elected ...

Ten years after Paul Tsongas died, Sen. John F. Kerry remembered the man he replaced in Congress as a “modest but incredibly forceful” politician. “Paul was a very different kind of public ...

In 1980, Sen. Paul Tsongas challenged the liberal wing of the Democratic Party to come up with new ideas and a new agenda. He said too many liberal Democrats were disconnected from reality, with a … ...

Paul Tsongas dialed the number he knew by heart. Jim Cook, executive director of the Lowell Plan, answered. How much money was in the treasury for Kittredge Park? Tsongas asked. Are there volunteer… ...

LOWELL — Paul Tsongas’ campaign for president in 1992 took him on stump speeches in New Hampshire and Iowa and across the country as he leapt from a relative unknown as a former U.S. Senator ...

If I’d been older, if I’d been smarter, if I’d ever actually watched a presidential campaign before, or if I’d been raised almost anywhere else in the country, I probably wouldn’t have ...