Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite Rockefeller's disclaimers of persisting presidential ambitions, some pros are nervously watching him for signs of a relapse. Percy, yet to serve a day, has an eye on the chairmanship of the G.O.P. Senatorial Campaign Committee?the platform from which Barry Goldwater soared to prominence. Hatfield is also believed to harbor presidential ambitions. Reagan denied having any presidential plans, but did hint that he might go to the convention as a favorite son if there is "a need to avoid a divisive
...insistence forced both parties to endorse plans for an open, state-wide primary -- and therein lies the key to Roosevelt's comeback. He has shown that in many ways he is an instinctively good politician. Unlike O'Connor, who often appears haggard on the speaker's platform from lack of sleep, FDR Jr. is able to stay unruffled by dozing off as his campaign moves from one stump to the next. He has turned up some of the best issues of the campaign, including the embarrassing facts about O'Connor's anti-rent control stand in the state legislature...
...candidate for state assembly, the would-be delegate to the state's constitutional convention, the men who call Kennedy "sir," waited quietly at the back of the platform. Later the senator would read their names into the microphone and fix their morals and mentalities forever "good...
...unmaking had its unbeginning when elegantly eloquent Conservative William F. Buckley Jr. got to thinking seriously about one of his "semi-jocular" newspaper columns, in which he had "vouchsafed a paradigmatic platform, theoretically useful in any large-size American city." From there, it was no more than a few thousand syllables into the 1965 New York mayoralty campaign as the Conservative Party contestant against Republican-Liberal John V. Lindsay and Democrat Abraham Beame...
...Youth for Adlai organization is indicative in itself. Although others say Stevenson is merely riding on his father's name, his election as "Best Legislator" by the Independent Voters of Illinois organization shows he has great promise on his own. He is still no hell-raiser on the platform and often appears to be deep in thought -- even in a casual conversation. But his rise to national prominence may depend on the evolution of his style, and his ability to prove to some that he's a competent and energetic individual, that he's not merely "traveling on the reputation...