Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the alliterative name of Wilson Watkins Wyatt. "I'm Wilson Wyatt,'' he said, as he handshook his way through the hillmen. "I'm Wilson Wyatt . . .I'm Wilson Wyatt ... I'm Wilson Wyatt . . ." He climbed a rickety ladder to a platform on top of a shack, grabbed a microphone and told a story about a coon dog that ran into a barbed wire fence and got cut up. A vet put the dog back together, but got the head at the wrong end. "Now," shouted Wyatt, "that dog is like my opponent...
...feels the campaign should center on issues, not personalities. Despite the fact that he will remain primarily a personality to many Massachusetts voters, Ted devotes a great deal of energy to supporting the Democratic administration and its legislative program. George Lodge is right when he charges that Ted's platform lacks originality...
While local politicians beamed on the platform, Kennedy gave the Republicans hell. "I am proud to come back to this city and state and ask your support in electing Democrats-those members of the House and Senate who support the minimum wage and medical care for the aged, and urban renewal, and cleaning our rivers, and giving security to our older people, and educating our children, and giving jobs to our workers. That is the issue of this campaign...
Smack in front of his trailer platform, bold signs challenged him. "How long. Mr. Kennedy, how long?" asked one. "Less profile, more courage, blockade Cuba." read another. "O.K., we licked Mississippi, now how about Cuba...
None of these reasons is acceptable from a candidate running for the United States Senate. The Senate is more a forum for deliberation and debate than a platform for the delivery of canned speeches. Any candidate who cannot defend his position against two opponents in a series of public debates should not represent Massachusetts before a body of experienced politicians...