Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Convention defeats Goldwater and adopts another "liberal" platform, it will be through the coalition of jealous, selfish, incompetent kingmakers, who will ruin all unity...
...Unless the Republican Party can come up with a strong but moderate candidate or can draft a platform for Goldwater, he will go down as a disaster in political history...
...Goldwater, announced for Barry and promised to release the delegation. In Michigan, Governor George Romney, who has been vociferous in his anti-Goldwater sentiments, warmly welcomed Barry into his state, posed proudly with him, insisted that he couldn't pick a candidate until he saw what the G.O.P. platform had to say. What overriding problem did Romney want the Platform Committee to tackle first? Said Romney: "The breakup of family life, leading to increased juvenile delinquency and other social evils...
...Percy escorted Barry to the Grecian Room, presented him to the delegates. Wearing a PERCY FOR GOVERNOR button, Goldwater rambled for a few minutes about the need for party unity and harmony, especially mentioned his civil rights vote, and said: "I will accept the civil rights plank of the platform, and as President will uphold and enforce the civil rights law. As President, I would want an Attorney General who would enforce the law. My Attorney General would uphold the law or I would get another one." He said that segregation is "foolishness in these times, just as anti-Semitism...
...Republicans would agree more heartily with that sentiment than Melvin Laird, a bright, balding Congressman from Wisconsin, chairman of the 1964 Republican Platform Committee and a man who means to write a document acceptable to all G.O.P. factions. Says Laird: "We're not writing a Goldwater platform, a Rockefeller platform, a Scranton platform or a G.O.P. Governors platform-we're writing a Republican platform...