Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Reagan and his platform committee are not about to put me into a chador. This is one registered Republican who will be voting for Carter in November...
...conservative delegates and the party platform reflect a belief in an embattled unit, the traditional family, with a working father and a mother at home teaching values to the children. "Traditional family values," said Independent Hawaiian Delegate John Leopold, "is a term they use to describe a wish that we go back to simpler times, when the roles of men and women were different...
...which the Republican platform no longer supports, impressed many delegates as symbolic, an opening for Government intrusion into family life and a denial of the biblical description of the family. Paul Glover from Alaska, an evangelical minister and organizer for the Fundamentalist political group Moral Majority, said, "It's all in Genesis: God created Adam, whose rib provided the spare parts for the first loudspeaker (i.e., Eve)." Glover's wife Carolyn, a first-time delegate and a member of the national platform committee, chuckled. Glover earnestly went on: "The ERA as it is written is a blank check...
Anderson conceded that a Reagan-Ford ticket would have been hard to beat; the Reagan-Bush combination was more vulnerable. "Initially, the impression may be that Bush is a moderate," he said. "But Bush has had to accept a platform that puts the Republican Party outside the mainstream." Anderson's assessment: "The vital political center of the U.S. is still valid for my campaign...
...Gerald Ford will be his selection as his vice-presidential running mate ... They are going to come to this convention hall tonight to appear together on this platform ... to announce that Ford will run with...