While President Carter and Senator Kennedy argue about what should be in the 1980 Democratic platform, they might find it useful to dust off and reconsider one long-forgotten document, the Democratic platform of 1976. As is the case with most such creations, it promised many things to many people. Among the planks on which Carter stood four years ago:
> "The current Republican Administration did not invent inept Government, but it has saddled the country with ineffective Government . . . We pledge a Government in which the new Democratic President will work closely with the leaders of the Congress on...
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