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...four days newspapermen can surrender their primacy. It's really their event. And they are well-prepared. Five minutes with NBC's John Hart convinced me of that. I once saw Hart mutter to someone on the floor that he wished he knew more about the party's defense plank. But two minutes later he was stumping Admiral Zumwalt, the party spokesman on defense, with some tough questions about the party's stand...
...women were as satisfied. The women in the National Organization for Women caucus said they are unhappy with Carter and the Democratic party. The women in the NOW caucus said they were dissatisfied that the full-employment plank of the platform failed to speak specifically about the problems of women. They also disliked the compromise for future conventions that encouraged delegations to promote and not require that 50 per cent of the delegates be women...
Humphrey quickly scrambled to the top of the political heap in Minnesota. In 1948, Senator-elect, he forced a liberal civil rights plank on the Democratic Convention. But in 1949 when he arrived in the Senate, he found that this proud achievement had made him an outcast with the Southern senatorial barons. As if the memory still pains, Humphrey recalls Georgia's Richard Russell referring to him as "a damn fool." Humphrey's insecurity and ambition, his need for approval made ostracism, indeed, any sort of slight, unendurable. He never forgot the experience. From then on, Humphrey placed...
...William Plank...
ONLY THE independence parties make economic inequality a major plank in their platform. Recently, the independence movement has identified itself with socialism, moving from an analysis of colonialism per se to a critique of its local economic consequences. The Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) envisions a socialist democracy, perhaps in the style of Sweden, while the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) calls itself a Marxist-Leninist party and proposes revolutionary socialism like Cuba's. They point out that economic growth cannot become self-sustaining because the profits of Puerto Rican industry are remitted to the United States, and association with...