Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EDUCATION. To foot the increasing costs of education, the platform suggests "new methods of financial aid," including "channeling of federally collected revenues to all levels of education, and, to the extent permitted by the Constitution, to all schools." The plank also proposes "to ensure that all students who can meet the requirements for college entrance can continue their education," an expanded program of public scholarships, guaranteed loans and work-study grants. To achieve essentially the same goals, "while resisting the Democratic efforts which endanger local control of schools," Republicans would use "selective aid to higher education, strengthened state and local...
...ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT. "Every person who participates in the Government must be held to a standard of ethics which permits no compromise with the principles of absolute honesty and the maintenance of undivided loyalty to the public interest." This replies to a G.O.P. platform charge of general Democratic wrongdoing...
...Fair Labor Standards Act; increased minimum wage and greater coverage; increased overtime pay; expanded manpower training and retraining programs; efforts to repeal state right-to-work laws; an end to "the present, inequitable restrictions on the right to organize and to strike and picket peaceably." The G.O.P. platform promised "restoration of collective bargaining responsibility to labor and management"; less intervention by third parties-presumably Federal Government officials-in settling labor disputes; and complete reorganization of the National Labor Relations Board...
...AGRICULTURE. To achieve higher farmer incomes, lower consumer prices and lower governmental costs, the platform promises continuation of present policies, with commodity programs designed to strengthen farm income; expansion of food stamp, school-lunch and other surplus-food programs, along with research into new uses for farm products; community programs and agricultural cooperatives "to assure rural America decent housing, economic security, and full partnership in the building of the great society." The corresponding G.O.P. plank stressed a hands-off policy by the Fed eral Government, promised farmers the "maximum opportunity to exercise their own management decisions," while resisting imposition...
...DEFENSE. "Until such time as there can be an enforceable treaty providing for inspected and verified disarmament, we must, and we will, maintain our military strength, as the sword and shield of freedom and the guarantor of peace." The platform promises to: continue the "overwhelming supremacy of our strategic nuclear forces"; strengthen limited warfare and anti-subversive capabilities; maintain "the world's largest research and development effort, which had initiated more than 200 new programs since 1961, to ensure continued American leadership in weapons systems and equipment" and continue the civil defense program; examine the Selective Service system...