Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Wisconsin Congressman Melvin R. Laird, 1964 chairman of the Republican Platform Committee...
...REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM (NBC, 4:30-5 p.m.). First of five daily programs covering preconvention developments in San Francisco this week...
...organization, and last week went so far as to say he would not support Goldwater even if Barry was the Republican nominee. Michigan's Governor George Romney, although not yet formally announced for Scranton, was determined to fight any attempt by Goldwater delegates to write a Goldwater-oriented platform in San Francisco...
House G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleek, for one, thought that this was less than cricket. Fourteen House Republicans are members of their party's national convention Platform Committee, which starts work in San Francisco on July 6. Those members quite understandably would like to be on hand to shape the platform, and Halleck had been aiming for a July 3-20 House recess. Now he ruefully recalled the help that he and his G.O.P. colleagues had given Johnson on civil rights: "Memories are real short around here...
...colleagues on both sides of the aisle. His voice rose to a slightly higher pitch, taking on an extra tone of persuasiveness. The Senate, he said, had a "covenant with the people. For many years each political party has given major consideration to a civil rights plank in its platform. Were these pledges so much campaign stuff, or did we mean it? Were these promises on civil rights but idle words for vote-getting purposes, or were they a covenant meant to be kept? If all this was mere pretense, let us confess the sin of hypocrisy...