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...adopted by either major party and 3) did a powerful and pleasant lot of offstage politicking looking to 1976, as a pride of Democratic hopefuls moved around constantly, trying to win friends and influence delegates. The tone was set by the party captains, led by Chairman Robert Strauss, the chief architect of the convention and engineer of compromise (see box next page). They agreed with Baltimore's Barbara Mikulski, who declared: "We must return to the policy of coalition; the new coalition of the 1960s must combine with the old coalition of the 1930s...
...this to Strauss: He stands with us or this party will go down in division and ruin in the presidential election...
...Waggoner (D-La.) also addressed himself to the compromise affirmative action amendment Strauss introduced late in the convention...
...taking a walk...Strauss has spoken. We will say this to Strauss--that union labor will no longer suffer sophisticated denial and discrimination in the high councils of the Democratic party. We would remind Mr. Strauss that union labor is an indispensible element of the coalition to which he will turn...
...play no monopoly on that coalition. But we say this: Of all the constituent elements of the party to which Strauss must turn, we have the best organized membership; we have the best organized resources; and we have the best organized political apparatus...