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...delegates listened to a parade of pleas for platform planks by homosexuals, advocates of abortion, and welfare organizers. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, wearing a button reading TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE, argued for radical tax reform?a plank the convention rejected. Hour after hour, the session ground on, with the delegates resisting pleas for adjournment. When they were finished, they had adopted a very liberal, semi-populist platform. The order in which the disputes were handled served party unity and party image: Wallace's package was considered first, and the more controversial items such as abortion and gay liberation were...
Liebman predicted that the question of integrating the suburbs would stir the most controversy in his plank on "Cities, Towns and Suburbs," although he said there is general agreement that the Nixon Administration has shortchanged the cities...
...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...
Allison also found past platforms undistinguished. "Every so often as I'm frantically calling someone for this job. I realize that I can't recall a single portion of the 1968 platform except for the Vietnam plank," she remarked...