Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A made- for- TV convention, short on substance, prompts questions about whether the networks' saturation coverage is justified.
Speech-writers just don't get enough thanks for what they do. Bob Shrum, the , private wordsmith for the Kennedy family's public utterances, was called in to cobble together something for the convention's Kennedy reunion. He not only wrote John Kennedy Jr.'s introduction of Uncle Ted and...
Mr. Lowe goes to Washington. The Democratic National Committee was baby sitter to a contingent of Brat Packers and other Hollywood luminaries: Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Justine Bateman, Ed Begley Jr., Ed Asner, Morgan Fairchild and the ubiquitous Rob Lowe half disguised by scholarly-looking glasses. Their cicerone in Atlanta...
Party rules. The number of unelected super-delegates at the 1992 convention will be cut in half. This year those 645 delegates voted en masse against Jackson.
Atlanta becomes a display of unprecedented harmony as the nominee and Jesse Jackson find common ground. How the concordat of cooperation was hammered out. -- Moments of high comedy at the convention, from TelePrompTer snafus to VIPS locked out of the Omni. -- Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger critiques Dukakis' foreign policy...