Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S correspondents aim week to week for such reporting, but their efforts reach a peak at convention time. When Senator Everett Dirksen last week had security forces thoroughly check the room in which the G.O.P. platform hearings were being held, he said it was because a similar hearing room at the 1960 G.O.P. Convention in Chicago had been bugged. The nonelectronic "bug" was actually TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, who had ingeniously managed to get firsthand intelligence about what went on in the room. MacNeil was in Miami last week, scouting for more information-and, inevitably, informing...
JOHN GARDNER, addressing the Republican Platform Committee in Miami Beach last week, might have added that the nation's unhappy mood has given the G.O.P. an exciting and historic chance as well. Not since 1952 has the party in power been so vulnerable. Even without an Ike like figure atop their lead elephant, the Republicans have both the opportunity and the will to reoccupy the White House in January and to re-establish credentials that they have not held since Herbert Hoover...
...staff of experts is supposed to prepare position papers and propose planks for the Democratic National Convention platform on foreign policy matters...
...Even the platform which the resolutions committee drafted, though admittedly a great deal more moderate than the so-called "Goldwater platform" of 1964, is a confused document, as platforms always are. And in calling for "de-Americanization" of the left than the average businessman-delegate to the Miami Convention. In any case, platforms don't influence candidates much, and front-runner Richard Nixon said Saturday he would not be willing to concede more than President Johnson has already given in an effort to get the bombing stopped...
...high places, about how America should rethink its role in world affairs, although the usual lip service is paid to the need for a change. There has been a refusal to admit that the next Administration must infuse billions of dollars into our cities to accomplish what the platform rhetoric claims the GOP wants to accomplish...