A political party's platform is really less like a platform than like a large, cantilevered roof under which all wrangling factions can temporarily huddle. After the huddle is over, no one pays much attention to the roof.
Democratic roofers worked and worried last week in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, trying to hoist up the last piece of lumber before all the fears and feuds of the party were exposed. They listened to pleas and threats. Sometimes they argued. Labor's William Green demanded a plank for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, for which...
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