Word: planked
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...EXTREMISM. Unlike the G.O.P., which vetoed a similar plank at San Francisco, the Democrats condemn "extremism, whether from the right or left, including the extreme tactics of such organizations as the Communist party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birch Society...
Federal Government exists not to grow larger, but to enlarge the individual potential and achievement of the people. The Federal Government exists not to subordinate the states, but to support them." The G.O.P. plank held that the Federal Government should "act only in areas where it has constitutional authority to act, and then only in respect of proven needs where individuals and local or state government will not or cannot adequately perform...
Wednesday, August 19 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM COMMITTEE MEETINGS (NBC and CBS, 4:30-5 p.m.).* -* The pre-convention plank-making sessions. Continued Thursday and Friday at the same time...
MEDICARE. Unlike the 1960 platform, the plank summarily rejects a medical-aid plan financed and administered through social security. The G.O.P. favors "full coverage of all medical and hospital costs of needy elderly people, financed by general revenues through broader implementation of federal-state plans, rather than the compulsory Democratic scheme covering only a small percentage of such costs for everyone regardless of need...
REDISTRICTING. Taking issue with Supreme Court decisions ruling that representation in state legislatures must be apportioned on the basis of population alone rather than area or geographic interests, the plank pledges "support of a constitutional amendment, as well as legislation enabling states having bicameral legislatures to apportion one house on bases of their choosing, including factors other than population...