Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the economy in high gear, a sweeping civil rights bill in the bag, and an incumbent in the White House, Democrats should have been able to assemble their 1964 platform for this week's convention with a paste pot. As it emerged, the platform was a bit sticky, glued together with boasts about Democratic accomplishments and pleasing promises of more pleasantries to come. But before the promises were put to paper, the Johnson Administration, with sledgehammer subtlety, pounded away at platform hearings with predictably partisan testimony from all the big tools in the Government...
Wednesday, August 19 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM COMMITTEE MEETINGS (NBC and CBS, 4:30-5 p.m.).* -* The pre-convention plank-making sessions. Continued Thursday and Friday at the same time...
...issues are beginning to emerge. For the Democrats, the theme will be peace, prosperity, preparedness-and prudence. They are also carpentering strong platform planks on civil rights, extremism and nuclear-weapons control as challenges to the G.O.P. platform positions. To Barry Goldwater, one key issue is the military strength and stance of the U.S. The fairness or unfairness of the press promises to become an issue (see THE PRESS). And an important factor will be the so-far-uncharted effect of the "backlash" against the civil rights revolution...
...outgoing president, Arizonan Walter E. Craig, is a federal judge-select who stoutly defends the Supreme Court. His successor is Virginian Lewis F. Powell Jr., the moderate former chairman of the Richmond school board, who quietly desegregated that city's schools in 1959. Powell's exemplary platform: Speed up A.B.A. efforts to strengthen professional ethics, equalize criminal justice and defend the indigent...
Wake Up, Raúl! For 3½ hours it went on, while Brother Raúl kept dozing off on the platform, only to be nudged awake by an amused Che Guevara. In sputtering defiance of the OAS, Castro issued his own "Declaration of Santiago de Cuba," accusing the U.S. of subverting Cuba and threatening to continue his attempts to foment revolution around Latin America. "Unless there is an end to the pirate attacks from the U.S. and other countries," he cried, "the people of Cuba will feel they have an equal right to help, with all resources available...