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Approval of this program as the party's policy was by simple and enthusiastic voice vote. Harmony was not so easily attained in the matter of adopting the party charter for 1980 and be yond. As the convention gathered mo mentum and delegates of like mind began to caucus, Strauss started worrying that the compromises that he had so laboriously and skillfully put together for the party charter would come apart at the last moment. The most ex plosive issue in what Strauss called "a political minefield" was how explicitly the party charter should guarantee the representation and vote...
...made challenges difficult for any group that felt cheated in a state-delegation selection process: the burden of proof would have been on the accuser who charged that the state party had not honestly tak en affirmative action. Some blacks, whose position was supported by the women's caucus, threatened to walk out of the convention if the rule was not changed to make challenge easier. After some tense bargaining and caucusing, it was changed to tighten the monitoring of affirmative action and remove the burden of proof...
Strauss's technique was to keep in close touch with all factions of the party, ranging from Alabama Governor George Wallace on the right to Black Caucus leaders on the left, and try to maintain a scrupulous neutrality among the jockeying presidential hopefuls of the party. A resolute pragmatist, Strauss was lukewarm at best about some of the party reforms proposed by the liberals, but backed them because he sensed that they were supported by a broad majority of the party...
...inviting delegates and press up to their hospitality suites for a little free food and drink and some good conversation. About 5000 people showed up at Senator Bentsen's (D-Texas) suite Friday night and drank somewhere around $20,000 worth of liquor. A party given by the Latino caucus featured a seven-piece combo in green flowered shirts, an open bar, and tacos and enchalidas. The Louisiana delegation rented a room and filled it with tubs of shrimp and liquor. They also handed out colored beaded necklaces which could be seen on many a haggard delegates' neck the next...
...black caucus, the Spanish caucus and the women's caucus were all in on the substance of the compromise and voted on it. And if you weren't in one of those caucuses you just weren't part of the action in this convention...