Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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SALT II The Democrats describe the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty as a "major accomplishment" and promise to seek ratification as soon as possible. The Republicans denounce the pact as "fundamentally flawed." The G.O.P. platform insists that the U.S. ultimately achieve military superiority over the Soviet Union, a position that would appear to rule out serious arms-control negotiations...
...morning, Wilkie arrived at Carter convention headquarters in midtown Manhattan in search of political dope. Cabinet officers were practically begging to be interviewed, but Wilkie and most experienced Washington hands studiously ignored them, figuring they knew less than the press did. Many reporters dutifully attended formal briefings on the platform planks, but with little enthusiasm. After a session with Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's chief domestic adviser, one reporter was left behind snoozing in his chair...
With real news in short supply, newsmen interviewed each other. One morning Wilkie found himself surrounded by eight reporters, including representatives of the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, all picking his brain about the platform compromises the night before. On another occasion a TV crew spotted him briefing colleagues and thought he was a Carter aide. "No lights! No pictures!" shouted the mortified Wilkie as the cameramen descended...
Betty Friedan, feminist author, after the women's platform victory at the Democratic Convention: "We took on the Establishment, and we made them say 'aunt...
...cottontails, but that does not make Christie Hefner, 27, a hare less rabid on the subject of women's rights. Hefner, a vice president of dad's Playboy Enterprises, says she came to the convention from Chicago as an alternate Carter delegate "to lobby for the minority platform on abortion and try to make a difference on women's issues." That is exactly what she did, dawn to dusk and gavel to gavel, while many another delegate was hopping around town. "People who don't know me thought I was here to play," she said...