Word: conventioners
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So in 1960, he took a job handling the daily campaign schedule of Edward M. Kennedy '54-56. During the Democratic convention, he worked on the staff of the elder Kennedy and afterwards became coordinator for North Carolina.
As a top adviser to Jackson this year, Hatcher sat in on many of the key meetings at the Democratic convention last July, in which Jackson and Dukakis resolved their differences and agreed to join forces in the Massachusetts governor's quest for the presidency. He says, however, that the...
"Following the convention, some mistakes were made, but because the people invovled are essentially reasonable people and kept working to resolve the problems and correct the mistakes, [in] the last months or so the tensions and problems have pretty much been eliminated," Hatcher says.
Other important events which he plans to discuss include the formation of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1970, the National Black Political Convention in 1972 and, of course, Jesse Jackson's bids for president in 1984 and 1988.
The present government, meanwhile, was wrestling with some rare but pressing decisions. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, for example, must choose a name for the next imperial era. All official documents except passports are now dated by the era Showa (Enlightened Peace), which began the day Hirohito became Emperor in 1926...