The Washington Post, August 16th, 1992
A committee has been called a cul-de-sac into which ideas are lured to be quietly strangled. Not so the Republican platform committee. Its handiwork shows clearly the conflicting ideas in the party's divided mind, and the nation's past. The secret of being a bore is to tell everything, and the platform is, in vast stretches, chloroform in print. It covers (among many other subjects) the Hobbs Act, mortgage revenue bonds, Cyprus and the U.N. trusteeship in Palau. But beneath the tangled underbrush of little details lurks a large contradiction that reflects the mingling of the Republican past an...
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