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Word: platformate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is exactly where it should remain, and we Democrats mean to keep it there ... I am disturbed when I hear anyone speak so glibly and loosely on the use of these weapons and who should make the decision to use them.'' The Democratic platform specifically declares: "Control of the use of nu clear weapons must remain solely with the highest elected official in the country-the President of the United States." Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Hubert Humphrey is going around asking audiences: "The question before the electorate is simple, prophetic, profound-which of these men, Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fear & the Facts | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Romney: My position is quite clear. The Republican Party has made its decision on the platform and the candidates. I accept these decisions. I accept them, but I don't endorse them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan: Trying to Drape the Albatross | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...beginning of platform hearings on August 17, news-starved reporters were bombarding the Washington FDP office for information. Each met with a reception one reporter termed "curt, cold, and nasty:" "The delegates will be here next weekend. If you want more, call Jackson...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...SNCCCORE enterprise, he requested active support from the NAACP and the National Council of Churches. Clarence Mitchell, NAACP Washington representative, is a close friend of Rauh, and by early August Mitchell had pressed the Association into action: Roy Wilkins pledged to endorse the Freedom delegation before the Platform and Credentials Committees. Bishop Spike, of the National Council of Churches Commission on Race and Religion, also agreed to lend a hand behind the scenes...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Instead of calling Jackson, most newsmen understandably shrugged, swilled another scotch on the Democratic Party, and wandered off to interview the two "traditional" Mississippi delegates who wisely attended the platform hearings in order to snare important television time and newspaper space...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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