Biannual conventions urged to revive parties from within
The piece questions McCarthy’s call for biennial national conventions to energize youth and policy. It argues frequent conventions may dull vitality, while changing content faster than frequency could spark enlightenment, and mocks the Miami Beach process as fixated on candidate selection rather than issues.
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America
McCarthy
Gene
Pete
G.O.P
Miami Beach
Barnum
Democratic Party
Remembering Telephones and the 1968 Democratic Convention
The piece recalls aging technology from telephones to radios and imagines a Chicago strike disrupting Convention coverage. It argues such outages could spur independent thought and guide voters toward the 1968 election, noting parallels to past media and transport shifts and urging calm.
Thurmond Dominates GOP Vice Presidential Fight
The Republican convention floor erupts over Spiro Agnew as vice president after a Northern backlash against South driven choices. Thurmond’s push and Nixon’s handling tilt power toward the South, with Lindsay’s bid collapsing and Thurmond emerges as key player shaping the drama.
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Spiro Agnew
South
John V. Lindsay
New York
Agnew
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Wen
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Ronald Reagan
Thurmond
Conventions Worsen Politics' Bad Name
John B. Oakes argues the American political convention system is chaotic, unrepresentative, and time wasting. He urges modernizing by scrap or reform, favoring a national presidential primary to restore democratic legitimacy and efficiency.
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New York Times Service
Iami Beach
America
Making of a President virtues sold by party counters
An organization offers a four day version of a presidential making process at high cost, mirroring its Democratic counterpart, benefiting hotel keepers restaurateurs and taxi drivers in the convention city. Except for the opening session, the rest seems designed for profit rather than public benefit.
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Convention City
United States
Nixon’s shifting stance and the convention theatre
New York Times editorial sums Nixon’s public push for negotiation on Vietnam while noting private doubts. It critiques his expediency, warns of a possible cabinet balance with Thurmond, and laments convention theatrics that dilute serious policy.
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Johnson
Humphrey
China
Washington
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
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Thurmond
Robert S. McNamara
Defense
Moscow
Sen
Eugene McCarthy
Paris
Caracas
Lions’ den
Nikita Khrushchev
John B. Oakes
The
New York Times
Heat Wave Breaks as Cedar Rapids Encounters Thunderstorm
The day topped 95 in Cedar Rapids before a damaging afternoon storm. Rain measured 0.24 inch citywide and 1.20 inches at Municipal Airport. Hail stripped crops south of Morley and destroyed farm buildings. An editorial in The Gazette spurred Rep. Henry C. Talie to push college tuition tax exemptions. Also, a 450 lot Marion real estate project arose from Granger farm purchase, and 1,100 head of cattle and pigs entered the All Iowa fair at Hawkeye Downs with a dairy show record.
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Morley
the Gazette
Henry C. Talie
Iowa
Talie
Marion
Thomas E. McGowan, Inc
Marion Real Estate Firm
Granger
Hawkeye Downs
Hickenlooper Remarks Oppose Debts From What The GOP Says
A 10 20 30 years ago feature recalls Hickenlooper criticizing a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor over debt tied to impractical government theories and subsidies. Cedar Rapids faced another heat spike with a humid 9 degree reading after a short cooldown.
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