Word: planked
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...Rockefeller, the lustrous epitome of the party's East Coast liberals. The last straw came on the eve of the G.O.P. Convention. At a meeting in Rockefeller's Manhattan apartment (read: Satan's throne), Nixon agreed to liberalize the G.O.P. platform, in part by adding an unequivocal civil rights plank. Goldwater compared the meeting to Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich. For the final insult, Nixon chose Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a pedigreed symbol of the Eastern aristocrats, as his running mate...
Very soon they would find it in plain sight. It was race. In 1956, one year after dispatching troops to integrate the schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, Eisenhower won 40% of the black vote. But by 1960, despite the civil rights plank agreed to at the Rockefeller meeting, Nixon was already subtly bidding to the white, conservative South. During the campaign, when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Atlanta, Nixon resisted advice to make a supportive phone call to King's wife Coretta. A brief call from Kennedy, made at the urging of his advisers, was enough...
...young but experienced, conservative anti-abortion Catholic. At 47, Nickles has a solid conservative record on both social and fiscal issues; in 1992, he served as platform committee chair at the Republican National Convention and helped defeat an effort by moderates to soften the party's anti-abortion platform plank. But Nickles' abortion stance apparently has not deterred him from reveling in Dole's interest: he said in a statement Tuesday that he was "honored" to be included among those being contacted by Dole's search committee. Nickles has long been a Dole loyalist, but one Republican source told...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As the GOP convention draws nearer, pro-life Republicans are determined that the anti-abortion plank in their party platform will not change. But many Republicans oppose the abortion ban. An Associated Press poll discovered a wide moderate streak on abortion among Republican National Convention delegates. About 34 percent want to remove the plank supporting a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion, while fewer than half of the delegates want to retain the controversial language. A full quarter of the delegates do not know how they stand, or didn't answer the question. The moderates may have a highly...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As the GOP convention draws nearer, pro-life Republicans are determined that the anti-abortion plank in their party platform will not change. But many Republicans oppose the abortion ban. An Associated Press poll discovered a wide moderate streak on abortion among Republican National Convention delegates. About 34 percent want to remove the plank supporting a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion, while fewer than half of the delegates want to retain the controversial language. A full quarter of the delegates do not know how they stand, or didn't answer the question. The moderates may have a highly...