Word: planked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...platform never before included a specific budgetary priorities plank because defense spending was never questioned as much as it is today. Allison explained. She said that cuts in military expenditures had generated the new issue of priorities in spending...
Vorenberg, "moderately active" as a Democratic speech writer in the past, said that the plank on "Law, Crime and Justice" which he is researching would probably oppose Federal block grants to local criminal justice agencies...
Furthermore, Muskie avoided mention of the fact, that he had been a strong proponent of the war during the Johnson Administration, and had even been the first speaker for the pro-war, pro-Administration Vietnam plank at the Chicago Democratic National Convention in 1968. All this didn't matter, Muskie tried to tell us: all three had voted for Tonkin, so all three stood similarly...
...reality, the laws about saluting the flag were not a major plank in my platform. Included in my platform were the more important issues of drug education, revision of the negative discipline code, rearrangement of the educational priorities (from administrator back to teacher), creation of an enhanced parent-teacher partnership, utilization of the schools for recreational purposes, and the instigation of a program to eliminate racial tension...
VIET NAM. In January 1966, after visiting Indochina, Muskie warned against further escalation and urged negotiations to end the war. Thereafter he privately pressed President Johnson to stop bombing North Viet Nam-but backed the 1968 Democratic majority plank on the war, a politically motivated step that he is not proud of. A year later he called for "orderly" U.S. withdrawal. In 1971 Muskie at first refused for technical reasons to support the McGovern-Hatfield amendment demanding a complete U.S. pullout by the end of 1971; having received considerable pressure, he now supports the amendment. The Republican national chairman, Senator...