Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aiming to impress voters with their savvy, the Democrats have turned next week' s convention into a showcase of high- tech management.
Neither candidate left the holiday session satisfied: Dukakis failed to win an endorsement from Jackson that could have spelled unity before the Atlanta convention. Jackson left Brookline, Mass., without the job offer he'd been seeking for a month. Kitty Dukakis and Jacqueline Jackson hit it off well. "They both...
Then on May 9, Bennett told Reagan he was quitting in September to lecture and write. But no kiss-and-tell stuff. "That's not my style," he growled. Bennett, however, has more than one agenda. He is consulting with the Republican Platform Committee as it prepares for next month...
As pressure for his departure increased, Meese decried the accusations as media mugging and "partisan politics," vowing that he would not be forced out of office. His about-face, therefore, caught the White House off guard. Only two weeks ago Meese had told top Reagan aides that he would stick...
So it went last week at the first, extraordinary party gathering since 1941, an event that proved extraordinary in every sense of the word. Day after sweltering day in an early summer heat wave, nearly 5,000 delegates met in the Kremlin's vast Palace of Congresses to debate their...