Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endearing marriage of progressivism and conservatism with the words: "We [must] continue to pursue the general policies of the last few years but improve the effectiveness with which we administer these policies." He discovered that formula months ago, but it has taken him several more to adjust his entire platform to the curious slogan, "positive, progressive conservatism." With as little mention of how local committees are to provide the initiative for financing slum clearance and unemployment relief as the Democrats made of how their program of five per cent growth without taxes is to work, the platform restates...
...what it has left out. It has virtually ignored all of Governor Rockefeller's relevant "points," including his remarkable proposal that the U.S. support the "confederation" of nations into solid political chunks. Both Nixon and Charles H. Percy's committee chose to exclude this intriguing scheme from their platform, probably because it seemed a little oddball--perhaps radical--in contrast to the vapidity of the rest of the plank...
...Vice-President's search for a platform has ended--but because it had to--and his troubles are by no means over yet. Every plank is a vacuous patching together of the divergent shreds within the Republican Party, and Nixon has not chosen to reinforce it with something like Al Smith's famous "wet telegram...
...sure that Nixon would like to be one of the "vigorous leaders" that the challenges of the future apparently demand. It will not be easy, however, to lead such a patchwork kind of unity in any direction. Senator Goldwater has called the Democratic platform a "blueprint for socialism," but it is hard to conceive of even his wing of the party considering its platform a blueprint for anything but standing still...
...same time, he realizes perfectly well that the increasingly liberal North respects the Rockefeller creed that he carefully omitted from the platform--that the world is changing, and that a new President will have to do something very concrete about it. The platform approved last night suggests that he will simply play it safe, characterizing the Democrats as too flashy to be responsible, and himself as too sedate to be anything else...