1984 Democratic Platform

Sunny McPeak , member of the Democratic Platform Committee, discusses the Democratic Platform for the year 1984. She says the party for the most part united under the platform, aside from 5 issues that will be debated at the Democratic National Convention. These issues are military spending, affirmative action, secondary primaries, role of US in Persian Gulf, and the role of US in world affairs. Some aspects of this platform will be that the national government cannot be responsible for everything. People from different levels of the government need to be involved in the problem solving process.