Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task of drafting a unifying platform, Nixon tapped as chairman of the ic>3-member Platform Committee a bright young nonpolitician: Charles H. Percy, 40, sometime boy wonder who became president of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras) at 29, increased its sales eightfold and its profits elevenfold in a decade. Loyal to Nixon but leaning toward Rockefeller's liberal brand of Republicanism, "Chuck" Percy had to placate Rockefeller without angering the Old Guard, point forward into the 19605 without repudiating the Eisenhower Administration record of the 19505. Percy and Nixon hoped to accomplish all that with a brief platform...
...started to draft a platform acceptable to Nelson Rockefeller, Percy had to hold off insistent pressures from the Old Guard led by Arizona's outspoken Senator Barry Goldwater, who inherited the late Robert Taft's role as the golden boy of Republican conservatism. Where the hearts of the Platform Committee's members lay was vividly evident in the contrasting receptions they gave Rockefeller and Goldwater last week. They listened to Rockefeller with polite attention, never once interrupted him with applause. When Goldwater appeared later the same day to urge the committee to shun the "destructive idea that...
...Nixon camp's ho-?es that the platform carpentered by Chuck Percy would satisfy Nelson Rockefeller got a bruising jolt toward wask's end. ''The Governor," announced Rockefeller Press Secretary Robert L. McManus, "is deeply concerned that the drafts on a number of matters?including national defense, foreign policy and some critical domestic issues?are still seriously lacking in strength and specifics." Clearly implied was a floor fight that might scar the G.O.P. and furnish invaluable ammunition for the Democrats...
During the last few hours of the conference, Nixon and Rockefeller spent a lot of the time talking with Chuck Percy in Chicago on a three-way conference hookup, filling him in on what changes in the platform would be called for by the Nixon-Rockefeller statements. Then, in the last half-hour, Nixon went over the Rockefeller statement, suggested some changes, finally approved...
Posture for the '60s. The statement was a Rockefeller document, couched in the language of Rockefeller writers, quoting many phrases, sentences, even whole sections, from the one-man platform that Rockefeller had submitted to Chuck Percy two weeks before (TIME, July 18). Main provisions: FOREIGN POLICY. Nixon accepted Rockefeller's pet proposal for regional "confederations." DEFENSE. Shaking off his burden of defending Administration defense policies without reservation, Nixon agreed that the "military posture" of the 1950s would not do for the 1960s, joined in a call for more and better bombers, an airborne SAC alert, more missiles, dispersed bases, greater...