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Answer Man
gives report
UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2.1977*5
By United Pres* International
The Washington Answer Man has
been taking stock of the political parties
and has staggered back to report today.
Question: The Republican National
Committee recently met in New
Orleans. Isn’t a Democratic stronghold
like that an odd place for the GOP to
assemble?
Answer Man: Yes, but they went
there for the restaurants. We all have
heard of the doomed man eating a hear-
ty last meal.
Question: We hear there are some
Republicans who think the name of the
party ought to be changed. Is that a
possibility?
Answer Man: Indeed. Unless things
change soon, GOP will be RIP.
However, I am told the Republicans
have conducted a contest to find a new
name that would make them popular
again.
Question: And what was the winning
entry?
Answer Man: Farah Fawcett-
Majors.
Question: Speaking of the
Democrats, is it true they are going to
revise their party rules again?
Answer Man: Yes. They discovered
that despite their best efforts it was
possible to nominate and elect a
__ president under the rules they wrote for
1976. That immediately set up a hue and
cry for reform.
Question: Well, when are they going
to stop this continual tinkering with the
rules?
Answer Man: When only one
politician in the country can understand
the rules. When they have achieved that
goal, the first person who can explain
the rules automatically will become the
Democratic candidate for president,
thus saving all the wear and tear of
campaigning in the primaries.
Question: Do the Democrats still
argue with each other all the time?
Answer Man: That is one area that
will never see reform. Recently, the
national executive committee bickered
^ for more than an hour over the question
of assessing state parties $150 or $125
for each delegate to pay for the 1978
mini-convention.
Question: Wasn’t that an awful waste
of time?
Answer Man: Not at all. It gave the
Democrats a new idea for raising funds
and encouraging survival of the two
J party system.
Question: By assessing delegates?
Answer Man: No, by selling tape
recordings of their meetings to the
Republicans. Five minutes of listening
to a Democratic discussion would cheer
up even the most suicidal Republican.
Question: We also hear there is some
unhappiness at the Democratic
| National Committee about the White
House staff ignoring the party leader-
ship in deciding party policy.
Answer Man: Nothing to it.
Democratic national chairman Ken
Curtis says he is the first person the
president tells when Hamilton Jordan
decides what the party should do.
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Cowles, Roger. Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 2, 1977, newspaper, November 2, 1977; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500458/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar University.