Word: conventioneers
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Another major concern among Hispanics is that the provision for $1,000 fines for those hiring illegals without work permits will prompt many employers to protect themselves by not hiring anyone of Hispanic descent. At their convention in Fresno, Calif., Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union condemned the...
The national prominence Bond gained from the legislature's antics culminated in his nomination as a vice-presidential candidate at the 1968 Democratic convention. Bond withdrew his name from consideration because of age, however. He was 28.
Bond had found the entrance doors to the 1968 convention barricaded, too. As co-chairman of the Georgia Loyal National Democratic Delegation, he came to the convention as a member of a minor insurgent group. But the Loyal Democrats won the credentials away from another Georgia delegation, dominated by party...
What Others Did As Lasky notes, Franklin Roosevelt did use the FBI to harass prominent people who publicly opposed U.S. involvement in World War II. Jack and Robert Kennedy did wiretap newsmen and Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson did employ the FBI for partisan political purposes in gathering intelligence...
In his claims of a biased press, as in much of his book, Lasky is inconsistent. While he condemns the press as Nixon's worst enemy, he also argues that it overplayed the violence outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago-thereby hurting Hubert Humphrey. "The convention coverage undoubtedly...