Word: posen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are certain to disrupt the arithmetic. The challenges could, theoretically, leave some states without any delegate representation. Said Walter Posen, counsel to the party's credentials committee: "The credibility of the entire convention is at stake." The three issues in the challenges are: 1) whether delegates were selected in violation of the spirit of the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision, 2) whether Negroes or other minorities are adequately represented in the delegate selection, and 3) whether delegates, chiefly McCarthy supporters, should be required to take a loyalty oath, promising to support the convention...