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Chicago platform hearings test poverty and war planks
Chicago witnesses tied to McCarthy themes push for bold poverty reform and a Vietnam war end plank while debates over Viet Cong inclusion and Saigon policy surface. Delegates split between McCarthy backers and administration critics as floor fights loom, with foreign policy hawks noted. The raisin industry line appears as an odd historical aside referencing California Jesuit roots.
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Chicago
Democratic Platform
Eugene McCarthy
Platform Committee
Washington
McCarthy
George Wiley
National Welfare Rights Organization
Poor Peoples
Michael Harrington
America
Julian Bond
Georgia
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
South Vietnam
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