Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami Beach the Republicans strove for harmony and produced monotony. In Chicago this week, the Democrats seemed certain to offer more discord than unity. Their presidential nominating convention shaped up like Combat in civvies. As the contenders battled bitterly over credentials, the platform and seating arrangements, there was a strong possibility that in the armed-camp atmosphere that prevailed outside the International Amphitheatre, police and demonstrators would clash...
Feisty Mood. Humphrey's rivals sought to capitalize on that weakness in a bruising struggle over the Viet Nam plank in the party platform. McCarthy's supporters were in a feisty, uncompromising mood. They demanded a clause calling for an immediate bombing halt and inclusion of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front in a coali tion government even before elections were held. The Administration sought a more vaguely worded plank. As Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it, while testifying before the Platform Committee in Washington, the party should describe the overall U.S. objective...
Humphrey, whose position lies somewhere between McCarthy's and the Administration's, wound up saying nothing during the platform fight. But his aides sought to win acceptance of a moderate plank, along the lines of one carpentered by Theodore Sorensen, former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy. The effort failed, ironically, when two other former Kennedy men, representing the McCarthy and McGovern camps, forced Sorensen to agree to a more dovish statement than Hum phrey was likely to approve. During a daylong hassle, Sorensen clashed repeatedly with McCarthy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin and Pierre Salinger, a McGovern aide...
Root Problems. Viet Nam overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
...foreboding, you don't understand your time," Gardner declared. He compared the leaders of the developed nations to "old men bickering in a collapsing house," ignoring "the root problems of this troubled world." Despite his reproachful words, Gardner received a standing ovation-just three weeks after the Republican Platform Committee in Miami Beach had given him a similarly warm reception...