Word: planked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feisty Mood. Humphrey's rivals sought to capitalize on that weakness in a bruising struggle over the Viet Nam plank in the party platform. McCarthy's supporters were in a feisty, uncompromising mood. They demanded a clause calling for an immediate bombing halt and inclusion of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front in a coali tion government even before elections were held. The Administration sought a more vaguely worded plank. As Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it, while testifying before the Platform Committee in Washington, the party should describe the overall U.S. objective...
Humphrey, whose position lies somewhere between McCarthy's and the Administration's, wound up saying nothing during the platform fight. But his aides sought to win acceptance of a moderate plank, along the lines of one carpentered by Theodore Sorensen, former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy. The effort failed, ironically, when two other former Kennedy men, representing the McCarthy and McGovern camps, forced Sorensen to agree to a more dovish statement than Hum phrey was likely to approve. During a daylong hassle, Sorensen clashed repeatedly with McCarthy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin and Pierre Salinger, a McGovern aide...
...overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
...lovely daughter Monique Dinh Dzu, 22, a teaching aide at U.C.L.A., arrived in Chicago with an appeal for the Democratic Convention to condemn that ac tion. In a press conference at Senator Eugene McCarthy's headquarters, she presented a petition urging the Democrats to write a platform plank demanding her father's release. First signer: Senator McCarthy...
They are also planning a strong assault on the platform committee in order to get an unequivocal antiwar plank calling for an end to the bombing of North Viet Nam and a repudiation of past U.S. war policy. The committee will conduct morning-to-midnight hearings for six days this week in an effort to write the party doctrine...