Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While hardly major, such mortifications are helping to cloud Percy's chances of being Illinois' favorite-son candidate at next summer's G.O.P. Convention. Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader, has indicated that he will not seek the role since he intends to head the platform committee. Now some downstate delegates, perhaps as many as 20 out of the total of 58, are threatening to ignore Percy and vote for Nixon or Reagan from the outset. Even so, Percy last week accepted the printing industry's Benjamin Franklin Award citing him as "a man of action...
...clock near the speaker's platform had just struck 3 a.m. when the haggard, dark-eyed figure shuffled into the meeting hall outside Santiago. "Mr. Chairman," he said softly, "I demand the right to answer some personal attacks waged against me." With that, Chile's embattled President Eduardo Frei turned to the 530 members of his Christian Democratic Party's national committee and launched into a plea for his very political life...
...Governors also ran into stubborn resistance from the congressional wing of the party over the 1968 G.O.P. platform. They demanded that a moderate from their ranks be made co-chairman of the platform committee, serving on a par with the almost certain congressional spokesman, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference and the conservative who chaired the 1964 platform committee, rejected the Governors' overtures, leaving unsettled what the tone of the 1968 G.O.P. platform will be and the kind of candidate who will be chosen...
...consider myself the Democrat," McCarthy answered. "If you accept the 1964 convention as a standard, I'm much closer to what Democratic delegates voted for in a platform, and I'm much closer to what Democrats voted for in the election...
...short, there are mounting indications the G.O.P. will run on a nebulous peace platform in 1968 as it did so successfully in 1952. At best, a G.O.P. candidate might outline some specific proposals to end the war. But this is unlikely though, and probably even unnecessary...