Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life of the press corps which accompanies the President is hectic and tense. They must scramble to get off the plane and on the press buses on time; they must battle the crowd before it blocks the press section of the speaker's platform; they must scramble again to the buses and then out of the buses back onto the plane. The only time available to the press to write their stories is during flight, and there is a din of clattering typewriters on the plane at all times. Then there is a furious competition to reach the press telephones...
...spite of his disagreements with the nominee, however, McCulloch was an early Goldwater supporter. At the Republican National Convention, he spoke against the platform amendment on civil rights offered by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York...
...caption in the April 12, 1960, New York Times, beneath a picture of the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner, was hardly calculated to please the subject. "Police Commissioner Eugene Connor," it read, "was elected on a race hate platform." Other references to Connor, in Timesman Harrison Salisbury's accompanying two-part story on race tensions in Birmingham, were no more flattering. "Bull" Connor sued the Times for $400,000 in damages, and was joined in his action by six other Alabama officials. Last week in Birmingham, four years after publication of the Times story, a federal-district-court jury awarded...
...business as usual. John Connally, as Governor, was the ranking member of the state party and also headed its conservative element. Although he served for a short time as Secretary of the Navy in the Kennedy government, his campaign for Governor had been based on an essentially anti-Kennedy platform; he was opposed to the civil rights bill, to Medicare, and to many other key points in the New Frontier...
...controlling the state convention, Connally also gained control of the Texas delegation to the Democratic National Convention and a conservative delegation it was: one of Texas' representatives on the platform committee was Price Daniel, a former Governor who enacted three anticivil rights bills during his time in office. Connally is also systematically removing the liberals from the state Democratic Executive Committee...